Poll: What makes music

[zen5887]

Pitch, timbre, dynamics, rhythm, melody, and texture.

You are totally able to have 'music' with just someone singing, likewise you are able to have music with just drums.

I stand by this.

Music doesn't require harmony or even a tonal structure. The only thing that sets music apart from other noises is rhythm. Look at African Drumming, it doesn't have a defined melody or harmony but it has rhythm and that's all you need.

To be honest, as a musician, the concept of this thread was kind of insulting. You can't break music down into instruments and vocals. To do so is ignorant and requires a major music lesson.

As fair as I can tell African drumming has basic harmony and tonal structure, different drums, different ways of hitting the drums, different tones.

As for your second point, I agree (although I'm not insulted).

 

[Anarchy In Detroit]

ok me and a friend r having a dis agreement and i wanna no what makes music the instruments or the vocals...? im for lyrics

Both. If one is off the whole song is fucked.

 

[ReincarnatedFTP]

Emotional connection makes music.
Whether it be the vocalist, music, or in most cases both, it has to enrage you, make you nostalgic, get you moving,make you depressed.
That's why even stuff like trance techno (a bunch of synthesizers and timed beats) will inspire people more than country music about your whore wife killing herself or the stupid kind of rap that talks about how you fuck the local bike in town, while shooting a gun sideways out of cover, at the same time wondering why half your friends died by cop.

 

[War Penguin]

Both are important. The singer must use his/her voice act and blend with an instrument and the musicians must make their instruments sing their songs to the rythm of the vocals. All is needed for balance.

 

[TheLastCylon]

Music can be perceived however you want it to be.

 

[InsertWittyName]

musicians make music.
Dave mustaine makes soundgasms.

On topic - instruments, i only listen to metal so thats all that matters.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Instruments, which includes voice.

You don't need lyrics to make music. And pretty words without instruments backing them up are poetry, not music.

 

[Deef]

Lyrics are meaningless, most of the time they don't make sense anyways.
But vocals are important. I listen to Screamo/Hardcore/Deathmetal and theres a lot of screaming type vocals in it, but once my iPod's headphones weren't working right so I could only hear the instrumental track and it didn't sound near as good.

 

[forestwalker]

the sound of it that jest make you feel good inside