Sentence:  The Negro composer Hall Johnson studied the Americanegro Suite and said of it , `` Of all the many songs written by white composers and employing what claims to be a Negroid idiom in both words and <WSD>music</WSD> , these six songs by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler easily stand far out above the rest . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner