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Music is an art form and a cultural activity, the medium of which is sound waves (a type of mechanical wave) organized on time and in a regular pattern.

It's basic elements include strength, weakness, tonality, duration, timbre and so on. These basic elements are combined to form the common "formal elements" of music, such as rhythm, tune, harmony, and strength, tempo, key, pattern, and weave. The formal elements of music are the means of expression.

Some of these elements may be emphasized or ignored in different types of music. Music is performed with a wide variety of instruments and vocal techniques, and is categorized as instrumental, vocal (e.g., songs without instrumental accompaniment), and works that combine singing and instrumentation.

In its most general form, music is described as an art form or cultural activity that includes the composition of musical works (songs, tunes, symphonies, etc.), performance, the evaluation of music, the study of music history, and the teaching of music. Ancient Greek and Indian philosophers defined music as tones arranged horizontally as melody and vertically as harmony.

Colloquial phrases such as "harmony in every sphere" and "this is music to my ears" point to the idea that music is usually orderly and pleasant to listen to. But 20th-century composer John Cage thought any sound could be music, saying, for example, "There is no noise, only sound."

Music is composed, performed, meant and even defined differently depending on the cultural and social context. Indeed, throughout history, a number of new forms or styles of music have been criticized as "non-musical," including Beethoven's fugue of 1825, early jazz in the early 1900s, and hardcore punk in the 1980s.