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Music is a human activity which involves structured and audible sounds, which is used for artistic or aesthetic, entertainment, or ceremonial purposes. Definitions vary in different cultures and social milieus.

by MultiMedia and Nicolae Sfetcu

This guide is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Music Sound

• Music
  • Definition of music
  • Music licensing
  • Music therapy
• Children's music
  • Nursery rhyme
• Musical composition
  • Album
    • List of albums
      • List of best-selling albums worldwide
      • List of album covers containing nudity
      • Pop albums that have consistently appeared in top lists
    • Boxed set
    • Cast recording
    • Compilation album
      • Greatest hits
    • Concept album
      • Historical album
    • Copy Control
    • Demo
    • Discography
      • Record label
    • DualDisc
    • Enhanced CD
    • Live album
    • Remix album
      • Remix
    • Super Audio CD
    • Soundtrack album
      • Soundtrack
      • Film soundtrack
        • Filmi
      • Music in professional wrestling
      • Audio track
      • Wild track
    • Split album
    • Tribute album
    • Debut album
    • Double album
    • Gatefold
    • List of EPs
    • Sampler album
    • Sophomore album
    • Studio album
  • Aleatoric music
  • Anthem
    • National anthem
      • List of national anthems
    • Royal anthem
  • Cantata
  • Choir
    • Chorale setting
    • Chorale prelude
    • Glee Club
  • Compositions by instrument
    • Piano trio
  • Concert band
    • Community band
    • Military band
    • School band
  • Film score
    • Photoplay music
  • Incidental music
  • Mass
  • Minimalist music
  • Operetta
  • Oratorio
  • Overture
  • Pieces
    • Process music
    • String quartet
  • Ragtime
  • Recorded music
    • Single
      • Charity record
      • Catalog numbering systems for single records
      • A-side and B-side
      • CD single
      • Cassette single
      • DVD single
      • Digital download
      • Maxi single
      • Music recording sales certification
      • One-hit wonder
      • Promotional single
      • Radio edit
      • Runaway hit
      • Video single
    • Extended play
  • Serialism
  • Song
    • Songwriter
    • Christmas music
      • Christmas carol
    • Commercium song
    • Cover version
    • Drinking song
    • Eurovision Song Contest
    • Song forms
      • Aria
      • Ballad
      • Chant
        • Football chant
        • Psalms
        • Ambrosian chant
        • Anglican chant
        • Armenian chant
        • Beneventan chant
        • Buddhist chant
        • Gallican chant
        • Gregorian chant
        • Mozarabic chant
        • Qur'an reading
      • Madrigal
        • English Madrigal School
        • Madrigal comedy
        • Madrigal dinner
        • Madrigale spirituale
        • Madrigal (Trecento)
      • Aubade
      • Carol
      • Chanson
      • Devotional song
      • Frottola
      • Hymn
      • Lament
      • Laude
      • Lullaby
      • Plainsong
      • Recitative
      • Tagelied
      • Villancico
    • Songs by genre
      • Gay anthem
      • Gospel music
        • Progressive Southern Gospel
        • Southern gospel
      • Novelty song
      • Protest song
    • Instrumental
      • Instrumental rock
    • Power ballad
    • Songs popular at sporting events
      • Fight song
      • Stadium anthem
    • Theme music
    • Animal song
    • Answer song
    • Bird song
    • Border ballad
    • Broadside
    • Children's song
    • Earworm
    • Field holler
    • Jingle
    • Lied
    • Milonga
    • Modinha
    • Playground song
    • Spiritual
    • Suicide song
    • Summer hit
    • Three-chord song
    • Topical song
    • Whale song
  • Suite
  • Symphonic poem
  • Symphony
    • Curse of the ninth
  • Television news music
  • Twelve tone technique
  • Fanfare
  • International Standard Musical Work Code
  • Lyrics
  • Precompositional
  • Round
• Music by continent
  • Music of Africa
    • List of Middle Eastern and North African folk music traditions
    • List of Sub-Saharan African folk music traditions
    • African hip hop
    • African reggae
    • Afro prog
    • Afro-rock
    • Afrobeat
  • Asian music
    • List of Asian folk music traditions
    • Arab music
    • Buddhist music
  • Music of Australia
    • List of Oceanic and Australian folk music traditions
    • Australian country music
    • Australian hardcore
    • Australian hip hop
    • Australian jazz
    • Australian rock
      • Australian indie rock
      • Pub rock
    • Indigenous Australian music
  • Music of Europe
    • List of European folk music traditions
    • European classical music
  • North American music
    • List of North, Central and South American folk music traditions
    • American music
      • Music history of the United States
        • Minstrel show
      • Ethnic music in the United States
        • American Indian music
          • Arapaho music
          • Dene music
          • Ghost Dance
          • Innu music
          • Inuit music
          • Iroquois music
          • Kiowa music
          • Kwakiutl music
          • Maroon music
          • Native American flute
          • Native American hip hop
          • Native American music
          • Navajo music
          • Peyote song
          • Pueblo music
          • Sioux music
          • Yuman music
        • African American music
        • Anglo-American music
        • Celtic music in the United States
        • Music of immigrant communities in the United States
        • Latin music in the United States
        • Tejano music
      • American classical music
      • American folk music
        • American Primitivism
        • Cajun music
        • Old-time music
        • Skiffle
        • String band
      • American hip hop
        • Southern rap
        • East Coast hip hop
        • West Coast hip hop
      • American styles of music
      • American styles of music
        • American pop
        • American rock
        • Barbershop music
        • Bounce music
        • Chicano rock
        • Doo-wop
        • Go Go
        • R&B
          • Quiet storm
          • Soul music
            • Chicago soul
            • Soca music
            • Memphis soul
            • Motown Sound
            • Northern soul
            • Philadelphia soul
            • Psychedelic soul
        • Salsa music
        • Shape note
        • Western music (North America)
      • American popular music
      • American patriotic music
    • Music of Canada
    • Central American music
    • Music of Mexico
• Music education
  • Ear training
    • Tonal memory
  • Music school
    • Singing school
  • Learning music by ear
  • Music and movement
  • Music lesson
• Music events
  • Music competitions
    • Music awards
      • American Music Award
      • Brit Award
      • Grammy Award
      • MTV Video Music Awards
    • List of classical music competitions
  • Concert
    • Benefit concert
    • Music venue
      • Nightclubs
        • Strip club
        • Superclub
      • Opera houses
      • Arena
      • Piano bar
    • Festival seating
    • Rock concert
  • Music festival
  • International Computer Music Conference
• Musical forms
  • Formal sections
    • Bridge
    • Cadenza
    • Coda
    • Conclusion
    • Development
    • Introduction
    • Recapitulation
    • Refrain
    • Satz
    • Sentence
    • Verse
  • Musical forms
    • List of musical forms
    • Ballet
      • Choreography
      • Ballet (music)
    • Concertos
      • Sinfonia concertante
      • Concerto grosso
      • Concerto for Orchestra
      • Piano concerto
      • Viola concerto
      • Violin concerto
      • Violoncello concerto
      • Concertino
      • Clarinet concerto
      • Harpsichord concerto
    • Dances
      • Circle dance
      • Folk dance
      • Group dance
        • Line dance
      • Polka
        • Chicken scratch
        • Norteño
        • Slovenian-style polka
      • Ritual dance
      • Social dance
        • Ballroom dance
          • Tango
          • Waltz
        • Latin dance
          • Music of Brasil
        • Novelty and fad dances
        • Partner dance
        • Square dance
        • Swing dance
          • East Coast Swing
          • Lindy Hop
            • Lindy Hop moves
          • West Coast Swing
    • Gendhing
    • Opera
      • List of famous operas
      • Operas by genre
        • Bel canto
        • Comic opera
        • Grand Opera
        • Opera ballet
        • Opera buffa
        • Opera seria
        • Singspiel
    • Sonatas
      • Sonata form
        • History of sonata form
        • Sonata rondo form
      • Sonata forms
      • Piano sonata
      • Violin sonata
      • Bassoon sonata
      • Cello sonata
      • Clarinet sonata
      • Flute sonata
      • Viola sonata
      • Sonata da Chiesa
      • Criticism and sonata form
    • Arch form
    • Bagatelle
    • Ballade
    • Bar form
    • Barcarolle
    • Binary form
  • Bastard pop
  • Cumulative song
  • Cyclic form
  • Leitmotif
  • Movement
  • Song structure (popular_music)
• Music genre
  • List of music genres
    • List of genres of music: A-F
    • List of genres of music: G-M
    • List of genres of music: N-R
    • List of genres of music: S-Z
    • List of music genres suffixed -core
  • Atonality
    • New Complexity
  • Blues
    • List of genres of the blues
    • Origins of the blues
    • Blues-rock
    • British blues
    • Chicago blues
    • Classic female blues
    • Country blues
    • Delta blues
    • Detroit blues
    • Fife and drum blues
    • Indian blues
    • Jazz blues
    • Jump blues
    • Louisiana blues
    • Memphis blues
    • New Orleans blues
    • Piedmont blues
    • Soul blues
    • St. Louis blues
    • Swamp blues
    • Texas blues
    • West Coast blues
  • Cabaret
  • Classical music
    • Carnatic music
      • Raga
      • Sopanam
      • Varnam
    • Chamber music
      • Virtual band
      • Clarinet-violin-piano trio
      • Piano quartet
      • Piano quintet
      • String quintet
      • String sextet
      • String trio
      • Wind quintet
    • Hindustani classical music
    • Musical eras
      • Dates of classical music eras
      • Prehistoric music
      • Ancient music
        • Ancient Roman music
        • Music of Mesopotamia
        • Aulos
        • Barbiton
        • Rhapsode
        • Seikilos epitaph
      • Early music
        • Medieval music
          • Ars antiqua
          • Ars nova
          • Guidonian hand
          • Lai
          • Conductus
          • Ars subtilior
          • Minnesang
          • Music of the trecento
          • Musica ficta
          • Virelai
        • Renaissance music
          • Burgundian School
          • Dutch School
          • Intermedio
          • Musica reservata
        • Baroque music
          • Air de cour
          • Bicinium
          • Canzone
          • Canzonetta
          • Chorale cantata
          • Chorale concerto
          • Chorale monodony
          • Chorale motet
          • Concertato
          • Lute song
          • Motet
          • Musette de cour
          • Prima pratica
          • Roman School
          • Venetian School
            • Venetian polychoral style
          • Villanella
      • Common practice period
        • Classical music era
          • Galant
            • Galante music
          • Notes inégales
          • Sinfonia
        • Romantic music
          • Character piece
      • Contemporary classical music
        • 20th century classical music
          • Modernism
          • Expressionism
    • Absolute music
    • Andalusian classical music
    • Authentic performance
    • Composer
    • Indian classical music
    • Korean music
    • Program music
    • Promenade concert
    • Voice instrumental music
  • Country music
    • List of country genres
      • Alternative country
        • Deathcountry
        • Roots rock
      • Bluegrass music
        • Traditional bluegrass
        • Progressive bluegrass
        • Czech bluegrass
        • International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor
      • Rockabilly
        • Brothel creeper
        • Gothabilly
        • Psychobilly
        • Punkabilly
    • Bakersfield sound
    • Country rock
    • Cowpunk
    • Franco-country
    • Honky tonk
    • Nashville sound
    • Outlaw country
    • Red Dirt
  • Crossover
    • Eclecticism
    • Funk metal
    • Symphonic rock
  • Cumbia
    • Argentine cumbia
    • Cumbia villera
    • Cumbia rap
    • Mexican cumbia
  • Dance music
  • Dance music
    • Dance-pop
    • Disco
      • Beatmatching
      • Bright disco
      • Disc jockey
        • Audio mixing
        • Beat juggling
        • Cutting
        • Mixing console
        • Music loop
        • Needle drop
        • Scratching
        • Slip-cueing
      • Disco orchestration
      • Italo disco
    • Vogue
    • Walkaround
  • Dub music
  • Electronic music
    • List of electronic music genres
    • Ambient music
      • Ambient house
      • Ambient industrial
      • Ashtorath
      • Dark ambient
      • Illbient
      • Lowercase
      • New Age music
      • Psybient
    • Bhangra
      • Bhangragga
      • Tumbi
    • Breakbeat
      • Breakcore
        • Raggacore
      • Break
        • Amen break
        • Bass run
        • Funky drummer
        • Tramen
      • Breakbeat hardcore
      • Brokenbeat
      • Drill 'n bass
      • Garage
        • Dubstep
      • Nu skool breaks
    • Computer and video game music
      • Chiptune
      • Gametrack
      • Interactive music
      • Music disk
      • Music video game
      • VGM
    • Drum and Bass
      • Clownstep
      • Darkcore
      • Darkstep
      • Drumfunk
      • Hardstep
      • Intelligent drum and bass
      • Jump-Up
      • Junglist
      • Liquid funk
      • Neurofunk
      • Oldschool jungle
      • Trancestep
    • Electronica
      • Folktronica
      • Trip hop
      • Bitpop
      • Downtempo
      • Glitch
      • Intelligent dance music
      • Post-rock
      • Uptempo
    • Eurodance
    • Futurepop
    • House music
      • Styles of house music
      • Acid house
      • Chicago house
        • Ghetto house
      • Dark house
      • Deep house
      • Electro house
      • Freestyle music
      • French house
      • Gabber music
        • Underground gabber
      • Hard house
      • Hip house
      • Kwaito
      • Latin house
      • Microhouse
      • Minimal house
      • Nu-NRG
      • Progressive electronic music
      • Pumpin' house
      • Tech house
      • Tribal house
      • Vocal house
    • Industrial music
      • List of industrial music subgenres
        • Electronic body music
        • Industrial metal
        • Industrial rock
        • Aggrotech
        • Power noise
      • Christian industrial
      • Dark electro
      • Industrial fashion
      • Horripilation
      • Infest
    • Noise music
      • Harsh noise
      • Japanoise
    • Synthpop
      • Electroclash
        • Electrocrass
      • Electropop
      • Synthpunk
    • Techno music
      • Happy hardcore
        • Hardcore trance
      • Hardcore techno
        • Bouncy techno
        • Speedcore
      • 4-beat
      • Acid techno
      • Detroit techno
      • Digital hardcore
      • Freetekno
      • Ghettotech
      • Minimal techno
      • Nortec
      • Rave music
      • Schranz
      • Terrorcore
      • Wonky techno
    • Technoid
    • Trance music
      • Goa trance music
      • Acid trance
      • Euro-Trance
      • Hard trance
      • Hardstyle
      • Minimalist trance
      • Psychedelic trance
      • Suomisaundi
      • Uplifting trance
      • Vocal trance
    • Acousmatic music
    • Balearic Beat
    • Electronic art music
      • Electroacoustic music
    • Gamewave
    • Grime
    • Hard dance
    • Hi-NRG
    • Hipstep
    • Indietronica
    • Krautrock
    • Musique concrète
    • Shibuya-kei
    • Spacesynth
    • Trance fusion
  • Experimental music
  • Flamenco
    • Alegrías
    • Bulerias
    • Fandango
    • Farruca
    • New Flamenco
    • Rumba
    • Rumba Flamenca
    • Sevillanas
    • Siguiriyas
    • Verdiales
  • Folk music
    • Neofolk
    • Psych folk
    • Roots revival
    • Neofolk
  • Free improvisation
  • Folk music
  • Funk
    • P-Funk
    • Funkcore
  • Goth
    • Gothic metal
  • Heavy metal music
    • List of heavy metal genres
    • Timeline of heavy metal
    • Black metal
    • Folk metal
    • Avant garde metal
    • Bay Area thrash metal
    • Blackened death metal
    • Classic metal
    • Death metal
    • Doom metal
    • Epic metal
    • Florida death metal
    • Glam metal
    • Groove metal
    • Melodic death metal
    • National Socialist black metal
    • Neo-classical metal
    • Oriental metal
    • Power metal
    • Sludge metal
    • Speed metal
    • Stoner rock
    • Symphonic metal
    • Technical death metal
    • Thrash metal
    • Viking metal
    • Heavy metal fashion
    • Metalhead
  • Hip hop music
    • History of hip hop music
      • Roots of hip hop
      • The golden age of hip hop
    • History of hip hop music
    • List of genres of hip hop
      • Christian hip hop
      • Rapcore
      • Abstract hip hop
      • Acid rap
      • Alternative hip hop
      • AltNuMet
      • Baltimore Club
      • Bamabounce
      • Brazilian funk
      • Chicano rap
      • Chopped and screwed
      • Conscious hip hop
      • Country-rap
      • Crunk
      • Dirty South
      • Electro
      • G-funk
      • Gangsta rap
      • Hardcore hip hop
      • Hip hop soul
      • Hip life
      • Horrorcore
      • Hyphy
      • Instrumental hip hop
      • Jazz rap
      • Latin rap
      • Low Bap
      • Mafioso rap
      • Memphis rap
      • Merenrap
      • Miami bass
      • Mobb Music
      • Neo soul
      • Nerdcore hip hop
      • New jack swing
      • Nu metal
      • Old school hip hop
      • Political hip hop
      • Pop-rap
      • Snap music
      • Songo-salsa
      • Turntablism
      • Urban Pasifika
    • Beatboxing
    • Hip hop dance
      • Breakdance
      • Funk dance
        • Popping
    • Hip hop fashion
    • Hip hop production
    • Rapping
      • Concept rap
      • Diss song
      • Freestyle battle
      • Freestyle rap
      • Posse cut
    • Hip hop rivalries
      • East Coast - West Coast hip hop rivalry
    • Electro hop
  • Jazz
    • List of jazz genres
    • Bebop
      • Cubop
      • Hard bop
    • Jazz genres
      • Acid jazz
      • Jazz fusion
      • Swing
        • Swing Era
        • Swing Revival
        • Western swing
      • Afro-Cuban jazz
      • Asian American jazz
      • Avant-garde jazz
      • Calypso jazz
      • Cool jazz
      • Dixieland
      • Free jazz
        • European free jazz
      • Jazz-funk
      • Latin jazz
      • M-Base
      • Nu-jazz
      • Smooth jazz
      • Soul jazz
      • Spank jazz
      • Stride piano
      • Third Stream
      • Trad jazz
      • Urban jazz
    • Jazz standard
    • Jazz poetry
    • Block chord
    • Ethno jazz
    • Fake music
    • Jam session
    • Jazz band
    • Jazz funeral
    • Jazz guitar
    • Jazz piano
    • Jazz royalty
    • Modal jazz
    • Rhythm section
    • Ska jazz
    • Vocalese
  • Lam
    • Mor lam sing
    • Khene
  • Música Popular Brasileira
  • Mambo
    • Boogaloo
  • Mazurca
    • Polka-mazurka
  • Mbaqanga
  • Musical theatre
    • Dream ballet
    • Libretto
  • Pop music
    • Surf music
      • Surf rock
    • Baroque pop
    • Bubblegum pop
    • Pop punk
    • Pop rock
    • Traditional pop music
    • Boy band
  • Popular music
  • Rock music
    • List of rock genres
      • Aboriginal rock
      • Aboriginal rock
      • Acid rock
      • Alternative rock
        • Timeline of alternative rock
        • Britpop
        • Alternative dance
        • Alternative metal
        • Christian alternative rock
        • Dream pop
        • Gothic rock
        • Indie
          • Indie pop
          • Indie rock
        • Lo-fi music
        • Madchester
        • Math rock
        • Noise pop
        • Paisley Underground
        • Sadcore
        • Shoegazing
        • Space rock
        • Twee pop
      • Arena rock
      • Art rock
      • Avant-progressive rock
      • British Invasion
      • Cello rock
      • Christian rock
        • Christian metal
      • Cock rock
      • Corporate rock
      • Folk-rock
      • Garage rock
      • Glam rock
      • Hard rock
      • Heartland rock
      • Jangle pop
      • Piano rock
      • Progressive music
        • Progressive rock
          • Timeline of progressive rock
          • Progressive metal
          • Cprog
      • Psychedelic music
        • Neo Psychedelia
      • Pub rock (UK)
      • Punk
        • List of musical punk genres
          • Protopunk
          • Anarcho-punk
          • Art punk
          • Cartoon Punk
          • Christian punk
          • Dance-punk
          • Deathrock
          • Emo
            • Emo Violence
            • Screamo
            • Tortured artist
          • Folk punk
            • Anti-folk
            • Urban Folk
          • Gaelic punk
          • Garage punk
          • Glam punk
          • Gothcore
          • Hardcore punk
            • Thrashcore
            • List of hardcore punk genres
            • Christian hardcore
            • Crust punk
            • D-beat
            • Death grunt
            • Extreme music
            • Grindcore
              • Power violence
            • Grunge music
              • Post-grunge
              • Mosh
            • Hardcore dancing
            • Hardcore Emo
            • Melodic hardcore
            • Metalcore
              • Deathcore
              • Fashioncore
              • Mathcore
              • Moshcore
              • Swede-core
              • List of metalcore genres
            • Post-hardcore
            • Queercore
            • Skate punk
          • Horror punk
          • Nazi punk
          • New Wave music
            • Darkwave
            • Mod Revival
            • New Romantic
            • New wave of new wave
          • No Wave
          • Noise rock
          • Oi!
          • Post-punk
            • Post-punk revival
          • Riot Grrrl
          • Skinheads
          • Straight edge
          • Streetpunk
          • Two Tone
        • Punk blues
        • Punk fashion
        • Punk rock
          • Timeline of punk rock
      • Punta rock
      • Rock in Opposition
      • Soft rock
      • Southern rock
      • Swamp rock
      • Synth rock
    • Medieval rock
    • Power pop
    • Rock and roll
      • Origins of rock and roll
    • Ska
      • Third-wave of ska
  • Acid Brass
  • American march music
  • Anatolian rock
  • Andalusi nubah
  • Background music
  • Baroque metal
  • Bass-Pop
  • Beach music
  • Beatlesque
  • Blues ballad
  • Bomba
  • Byzantine music
  • Celtic music
  • Change ringing
  • Concert march
  • Crossover thrash
  • Dark cabaret
  • Downtown music
  • Dronology
  • Euro disco
  • Eurobeat
  • Furniture music
  • Generative music
  • Industrial musical
  • Intermezzo
  • Lounge music
  • Martial music
  • Meditation music
  • Melodic music
  • Modern soul
  • Reggae
    • List of genres of reggae
    • Ragga
    • Riddim
    • Roots reggae
  • World music
    • Exotica
• Musical groups
  • Band
  • All-women band
    • Girl group
  • Virtual band
  • Drum and bugle corps
    • Drum Major
    • Drum and bugle corps (classic)
    • Drum and bugle corps (modern)
    • Drum and lyre corps
    • Front ensemble
  • Marching band
    • Pipes and drums
    • Scramble band
  • Musical collective
  • Orchestra
    • Baroque orchestra
    • Pinpeat
  • Percussion ensemble
    • Drumline
    • Indoor percussion ensemble
  • Supergroup
  • Big band
  • Brass band
  • Cover band
  • Cult band
  • Duet
  • Horn section
  • Jug band
  • Nonet
  • Octet
  • Power trio
  • Quartet
  • Quintet
  • Rock band
  • Septet
  • Sextet
  • Tribute band
  • String orchestra
  • Piano sextet
• Music history
  • History of music
  • Timelines of music
• Musical movements
  • Les Six
  • Minimalism
  • Neoclassicism
  • New Weird America
  • Second Viennese School
  • Anarcho-rockers
  • Impressionist music
  • Neoromanticism
  • Post-modern Classicism
  • Postminimalism
  • Postmodern music
  • Raggare
  • Rocker
  • Sonorism
  • Spectral music
  • Surrealism
  • Totalism
• Origins of music genres
• Cassette culture
• Censorship of music
• Cheironomy
• Discothèque
• Harmony
• Mensural notation
• Music journalism
• Nationalism
• Social history of the piano
• Piano history and musical performance
• Polyphonic Era
• War of the Romantics

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