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organized air that can make strangers cry in the same key.
means The art of arranging sound — pitch, rhythm, and timbre — into patterns that move us, whether played, sung, or simply heard in the head.
from From Greek mousikē, "the art of the Muses" — those nine goddesses who presided over poetry, dance, and song. To the Greeks, mousikē meant far more than tunes: it covered the whole sweep of the arts the Muses inspired. The word travelled through Latin musica into Old French musique, narrowing along the way until it meant just the organized air we know today.
- physical force
- sound is literal vibration moving through matter
- brain hijack
- triggers dopamine like food or love does
- older than speech
- flutes predate writing by thousands of years
- no universal scale
- cultures divide pitch in wildly different ways
- silence counts
- rests are written notes you don't play
beethoven's 9th symphony — premiered 1824 in vienna, features 'ode to joy' sung by 4 soloists and chorus
the beatles abbey road — 1969 album recorded at abbey road studios london, features 17 songs including 'come together'
aretha franklin respect — 1967 hit single, became anthem of civil rights and feminist movements