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I can't seem to find a definition for music that clearly states that all 3 elements must be present. Here's the definition(s) taken from thefreedictionary.com. Number 1 looks like the definition you posted earlier today. It list 4 element but doesn't say that all 4 must be present. Now look at Number 2. It says that it needs "a degree of melody, harmony, or rhythm". 1. The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. 2. Vocal or instrumental sounds possessing a degree of melody, harmony, or rhythm. 3. a. A musical composition. b. The written or printed score for such a composition. c. Such scores considered as a group: We keep our music in a stack near the piano. 4. A musical accompaniment. 5. A particular category or kind of music. 6. An aesthetically pleasing or harmonious sound or combination of sounds: the music of the wind in the pines. fj

I understand that you are not criticizing what you say is not music and that you're simply applying the definition that you've laid out here, and that in your opinion, rap does not meet all the 3 requirements to be called music. I think it does. You previously mentioned Kanye West as an example of not fulfilling all of the requirements to be called music, so I'll link to one of his songs and point out where I hear the requirements being filled. Melody - Kanye opens with a short melody before the rapping starts and brings it back throughout. Then there's that repetitive melodic theme with occasional variation in the background vocals. Rhythm - Well, it's everywhere. Harmony - Synth strings (including what I will consider a melodic theme in the top line) I'm fairly certain that the definition of music is to differentiate unorganized noise (for example the noise that a washing machine makes) from noise that is organized with rhythm, harmony, and melody. I see the point you are making that rap doesn't meet the definition, and I'm making the point that it does... A counterpoint, if you will . fj

So are you saying that, if you take a Charlie Parker song - which I'll assume that we agree that it is music - and add poetry recited in rhythm over top of it (however unpleasant that would probably be to listen to), it then ceases to me music? What about African percussion tribal music? Is that wrongly labelled as music? One example of a 20th century expressionist movement piece - Pierrot Lunaire by Arnold Schoenberg - is mostly devoid of melody in the vocals except for a couple of notes here and there. Would that be considered mislabeled as music? There's a lot of music out there that are just cords playing. I can usually hear melody lines within those chords (as well as harmony and rhythm). If a rapper then adds his part to it, it doesn't mean that the song has no melody. It just means that the melody is not in the vocal part. It's all music IMO. fj edited for punctuation

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She sounds like an angel when she sings. She even sounds like an angel when she talks. One of my all time favorite artists. fj

From Wikipedia (so, a grain of salt maybe), but it does align with what I heard in the past regarding the reason they used ADT: ADT was invented specially for the Beatles[2] during the spring of 1966 by Ken Townsend, a recording engineer employed at EMI's Abbey Road Studios,[2] mainly at the request of John Lennon, who despised the tedium of double tracking during sessions and regularly expressed a desire for a technical alternative.[3] fj

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