Ambient music

Ambient music is a genre of music that highlight the tone and atmosphere over normal musical structure or rhythm. Often "peaceful" sounding and lacking of composition, beat, and melody,The Ambient Century by Mark Prendergast, Bloomsbury, London, 2003. ambient music uses textural layers of sound that can heard both in passive and active listening,Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak, Easy Listening & Other Moodsong by Joseph Lanza, Quartet, London, 1995. and make a sense of calming.Crossfade: A Big Chill Anthology, Serpents Tail, London, 2004. The genre makes an "atmospheric", "visual", or "unobtrusive" quality. Nature soundscapes may be included, and some works use sustained or repeated notes, as in drone music. Multiple elements related with new-age music, instruments such as the piano, strings and flute may be emulated through a synthesizer.George Grove, Stanley Sadie, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Macmillan Publishers, 1st ed., 1980 (), vol. 7 (Fuchs to Gyuzelev), "André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry", p. 708: "in L'épreuve villageoise, where the various folk elements – couplet form, simplicity of style, straightforward rhythm, drone bass in imitation of bagpipes – combine to express at once ingenuous coquetry and sincerity."

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