Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. It has common elements that consists of pitch, rhythm, dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. Pitch which governs melody and harmony while rhythm with its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation.
Music can be divided into genres and sub genres, although the dividing lines and relationship between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial.Within the arts, music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and auditory art. It may also be divided among art music and folk music.
Comedy, drama, epic, lyrical, romance, tragedy, tragicomedy, and satire are in the genres categories. Performing arts using musics has a major form, a minor form and at least eight genres. In the major form, it consists of ballet, dance, opera and theatre. Circus skills, magic, mime, puppetry and speech and in the minor form.
The history of music is from the prehistoric eras to ancient Egypt to Asian cultures to references in the Bible to Ancient Greece to The Middle Age to the renaissance to the baroque to classicism to romanticism and lastly is 20th and 21st century music. This the history line of music, from Prehistoric eras to 21st century music.
Education includes music, music training from preschool to post secondary education is common in North America and Europe. They teach basic skills such as concentration, counting, listening, and cooperation while also promoting understanding of language, improving the ability to recall information, and creating an environment more conducive to learning in other areas.
In business there is the music industry or music business consists of the companies and individuals that make money by creating and selling music. The operator within the companies are the musicians, professionals who create ans sell recorded music, those that present live music performances, professionals who assists musicians with their music career, those who broadcast music, journalists, educators, musical instrument manufactures; as well as many others.