1.2. What is Music?¶
Music was born in the ancient Greece. [BGP19]
There are several ways to define music.
Cambridge dictionary:
Definition
”Music is a pattern of sounds made by musical instruments, voices, or computers, or a combination of these, intended to give pleasure to people listening to it”
1.2.1. Music Theory¶
As it happens with MIR, there are also several subfields that involve Music such as Musicology, Music Therapy, Music Education or Music Production.
Definition
Music Theory is a subfield of musicology that aims to study the the musical phenomena such as the melody, rhythm, counterpoint, harmony, form, tonal systems, scales, tuning, intervals…