Hi again,

I just skimmed this whole thread again, and am now certain that the premise is off base, and the discussion about the distinction between sound and music is spot on. Mike's list is a good summation of properties, attributes, (insert your favorite term here) of sound. Those features don't remotely explain why some sounds are musical, and others are not.

Music is made of sound, and silence. Music is patterns of sound, not the individual sounds. More important than all of that, music is what we experience when the atmosphere around us vibrates in a special way.

To make this discussion meaningful, lets talk about what music is, rather than what it is "made of". Music has deeper virtues than those perceived in random noise.

For me, melody, harmony, and rythm make a much better list than one that defines all sounds but doesn't begin to approach the reality of music.

Maybe I'm up to $.04 now,
Emmit Sycamore
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