Music Introduction Music is the organization of sound in time. Music, like theatre and dance is a performing art, in contrast to literature, painting and sculpture.
Music is the only non-visual art and is the most abstract of any art form in our culture.
It seems to be a basic cultural component of our species and exists in some form in all cultures. In our own culture it can range from an intense, emotional self-expression to a highly organized structure dependent upon mathematical relationships for its organization. It can be non-rational or highly logical and can depend either on the rehearsed collaboration of composers and performers or upon the spontaneous improvisatory skills of the performers. Because it is invisible, music, more than any other art form requires an audience, a listener, so that the communication of its content may take place. Music has been an important social document in western culture, particularly in our own century.