"Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul; on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful" - Plato.
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The modern English word 'music' came into use in the 1630s.
It is derived from a long line of successive precursors: the Old English 'musike' of the mid-13th century; the Old French musique of the 12th century; and the Latin mūsica.
The Latin word itself derives from the Ancient Greek mousiké (technē) - μουσική (τέχνη) - literally meaning "(art) of the Muses".
The Muses were nine deities in Ancient Greek mythology who presided over the arts and sciences.
They were included in tales by the earliest Western authors, Homer and Hesiod, and eventually came to be associated with music specifically.
Over time, Polyhymnia would reside over music more prominently than the other muses.
Top row: Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven;
second row: Gioachino Rossini, Felix Mendelssohn, Frédéric Chopin, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi;
third row: Johann Strauss II, Johannes Brahms, Georges Bizet, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Antonín Dvořák;
bottom row: Edvard Grieg, Edward Elgar, Sergei Rachmaninoff, George Gershwin, Aram Khachaturian
The Latin word musica was also the originator for both the Spanish música and French musique via spelling and linguistic adjustment, though other European terms were probably loanwords, including the Italian musica, German Musik, Dutch muziek, Norwegian musikk, Polish muzyka and Russian muzïka.
The modern Western world usually defines music as an all-encompassing term, used to describe diverse genres, styles and traditions.
This is not the case worldwide, and languages such as modern Indonesian (musik) and Shona (musakazo) have recently adopted words to reflect this universal conception, as they did not have words that fit exactly the Western scope.
In East Asia, neither Japan nor China have a single word which encompasses music in a broad sense, but culturally often regard music in such a fashion.
The closest word to mean music in Chinese, yue, shares a character with le, meaning joy, and originally referred to all the arts before its narrowing in meaning.
Africa is too diverse to make firm generalizations, but the musicologist J. H. Kwabena Nketia has emphasized African music's often inseparable connection to dance and speech in general.[18] Some African cultures, such as the Songye people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tiv people of Nigeria, have a strong and broad conception of 'music' but no corresponding word in their native languages.
Other words commonly translated as 'music' often have more specific meanings in their respective cultures: the Hindi word for music, sangita, properly refers to art music, while the many Indigenous languages of the Americas have words for music that refer specifically to song but describe instrumental music regardless.
Though the Arabic musiqi can refer to all music, it is usually used for instrumental and metric music, while khandan identifies vocal and improvised music.
David Garrett, 1980 | The magic devil's violinist / Il magico violinista del diavolo
List of Classical, Modern and contemporary Musicians, Composers, Instrumentalist, Songwriters, Singers, Dancers, Videos, artistic movements definition, influences, artist statement and Awards.
Salvatore Quasimodo | Il girasole piega a occidente / Almost a Madrigal
Tomaso Albinoni | 12 Concerti a cinque (op. 9), 1722
Hugues Merle | The Lunatic of Etretat, 1871
Vittorio Matteo Corcos | Dreams / Sogni, 1896
Ave Maria (Schubert)
Bernard Blommers | Goodbye father, 1885
Typewriter artist James Cook
Richard Wagner | Tristan und Isolde (Overture)
Johann Strauss | By the Beautiful Blue Danube
Czárdás - Hungarian Dance
“Il Lago dei Cigni” di Tchaikovsky
Italian ballet dancer Jacopo Tissi in Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake"
Vincent van Gogh | A Walk at Twilight, 1889-1890
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore | Act 2: "Una furtiva lagrima"
Playing music in Baroque era
Il canale YouTube della Tutt'Art@ | La mappa
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Bal du moulin de la Galette, 1876
Wisława Szymborska | Ruben's Women
Le Quattro Stagioni | I Concerti ed i Sonetti di Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" | Music and Sonnets
Theodore Earl Butler, l'impressionista americano a Parigi
Luigi Russolo | Futurist painter
Claude Debussy / Paul Verlaine | Clair de Lune, 1869
Beethoven | Heiligenstadt Testament, 1802
Marlène Dietrich and Édith Piaf
Il Valzer | La danza proibita
Robert Schumann: "Talent works, genius creates"!
Johann Sebastian Bach: "La musica aiuta a non sentire dentro il silenzio che c’è fuori"!
Mozart: "The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between"
Bob Dylan, 1941 | Paintings by the Music Legend
Désiré Thomassin | Naturalist painter
Leopoldo Metlicovitz | Modern Poster artist
Johannes Brahms: "Studiate Bach: lì troverete tutto quello che cercate"
Edvard Grieg: "Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights.."
Giuseppe Verdi: "Torniamo all'antico e sarà un progresso"
Richard Wagner: "L'uomo si distingue dall'animale in virtù della compassione verso l'animale stesso"
Maurice Ravel: "The only love affair I have ever had was with music!"
George Sand racconta Chopin
David Gray | The Storyteller | VideoArt
Frédéric Chopin: "Play Mozart in memory of me!"
Loie Fuller | Modern Dance Pioneer
"Zorba the Greek" composer Theodorakis dies at 96
Eric Bowman, 1960 | Jazz music
Gulyás László, 1960 | Le ballerine
Il simbolismo poetico di Arunas Rutkus, 1961
Anatoly Metlan, 1964 | Flamenco dancers
Niccolò Paganini: "La felicità non esiste ma la si canta!"
Franz Liszt: "Truth is a great flirt"
Kitty Meijering, 1974 | Ballet dancers
Mark Olich, 1974 | Ballet dancers photographer
Ludwig van Beethoven: "L'amore vuole tutto e ha ragione.."
Jeff Rowland, 1964 | VideoArt
Hermann Hesse: A dance by Chopin, 1901
Saint Cecilia: Patroness of Musicians
Lermontov, Rubinstein, Vrubel e l'amore del Demone per Tamara
Anastasia Vostrezova, 1981 | Ballet Dancers
Miomir Badzic | Ballet dancers
Nenad Mirkovich, 1951
David Garrett, 1980 | The Devil's violinist
Liu Yi 柳毅, 1958 | Ballet dancers
Chen Yifei (1946-2005) | Music Player painting
Leonard Cohen / Fabian Perez | The Stranger Song
Love letter from Igor Stravinsky to Coco Chanel, 1933
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) | Quotes
Nathan Brutsky, 1963 | Life is Tango
Hector Berlioz | Art and Life Quotes
Henri Fantin-Latour interprets Schumann, Wagner, Brahms and Berlioz
Henri Fantin-Latour | The Anniversary (Homage to Hector Berlioz) 1877
Jim Morrison / Pino Daeni
MusicArt | Sitemap
Rémi LaBarre, 1977 | Figurative painter
Emilia Wilk, 1983 | Ballet dancers
Diego Dayer, 1978 | Figurative painter
Beethoven's love letters to his immortal beloved, 1812
Renata Brzozowska, 1977 | Flamenco dancers
Leonard Cohen / Fatima Tomaeva | You do not have to love me / Non devi amarmi
Titian | The Music Lesson / La lezione di musica, 1535
Giancarlo Vitali | Concerto in D minor
Bruno Di Maio, 1944 | Surrealist Figurative painter
Nietzsche e la "Carmen" di Bizet
Dan Beck, 1955 | The Dreamers | VideoArt
Michael Cheval, 1966
Eric Bowman, 1960 | Ballet dancers
Bec Winnel, 1978 | VideoArt
Keith Mallett, 1948 | Abstract Figurative painter
George Underwood, 1947 | Pittore Fantasy
Wolfgang Kossuth (1947-2009) | Figurative sculptor
Richard MacDonald, 1946 | Figurative sculptor
Bernardo Strozzi | Music players in the Baroque era
Bernardo Strozzi | Portraits of composer Claudio Monteverdi
Djordje Prudnikov | VideoArt
Lionello Balestrieri | Beethoven, 1900
Evgeniy Monahov, 1974 | VideoArt
Bust gallery | Louvre Museum, Paris
Schubert: "Chi potrà fare di più dopo Beethoven.."
Diane Leonard | Plein Air Impressionist painter | VideoArt
Keith Mallett, 1948 | Jazz painting
Andrius Kovelinas, 1958 | Surrealist painter
Christopher Clark | Jazz, Music and Dance
Bev Jozwiak, 1953 | Ballet dancers in Watercolor
Irene Sheri Vishnevskaya, 1968 | Ballet dancers
Marina Podgaevskaya, 1963 | VideoArt
Eric Wallis, 1968 | Ballet dancers
Andrew Atroshenko, 1965 | The passion of music
Andrew Atroshenko, 1965 | Ballet dancers
Anna Rose Bain, 1985 | Ballet Dancers
Rodrigo Zaniboni | Plein air painter
Jack Vettriano: "I don’t apologise for what I have painted.."
Ekaterina Vassilenko Searcy | Ballet dancers
Wassily Kandinsky | Quotes / VideoArt
Ivan Pili, 1976 | Genre painter
Miloslava Vrbova-Stefkova | Ballet dancers
Nadezhda Streltsov / Надежда Стрельцова, 1973 | Ballet dancers
Leonard Cohen / Jack Vettriano | Dance me to the end of love
Andrius Kovelinas,1958
Abdalieva Akzhan,1975 | VideoArt
Nikolay Reznichenko, 1958 | Surrealist Figurative painter
Lionello Balestrieri | Triptych of Chopin / Il trittico di Chopin, 1904
Lionello Balestrieri | Genre / Impressionist painter
Karen Tarlton, 1965 | Storia d'amore sotto la pioggia
Anne Bachelier, 1949
André Rieu, 1949 | The King of Waltz
Lyudmila Agrich | Ballet dancer
Anna Razumovskaya | Ballet dancers
C.M. Cooper | Ballet dancers
Bruno Di Maio, 1944 | Ballet dancers
Alan Giana | Fantasy painter | VideoArt
Claude WeisBuch | Impressionist /Modern painter
Justyna Kopania | Ballet Dancers
Ron Di Scenza, 1954 | Ballet dancers
Charlie Chaplin | Smile, 1936 | Modern Times
Mark Olich, 1974 | Ballet dancers | Conceptual photography
Maria Boohtiyarova and Andrei Belichenko
Rembrandt | Musical Company, 1626
Jules Combarieau: La musica è l'arte di pensare attraverso i suoni
Omar Sharif: Doctor Zhivago star, dies at 83
Pietro Canonica
Stephan Sinding | Adorazione
Lucia Coghetto, 1961 | La nebbia dei ricordi | VideoArt
Paco de Lucia, il Maestro del Flamenco
Richard Johnson ~ Morning Romance | VideoArt
Momix Ballet
Concerto di Capodanno di Vienna, 2014
Dal 1939 la Wiener Philarmoniker in concerto
Leonard Cohen | Winter Lady /Signora Inverno
Leonard Cohen / Tomasz Rut | Il vero amore non lascia tracce...
Leonard Cohen / Michael Parkes ~ Questo è per te...
L'Abbraccio | VideoArt
William Schneider, 1945 | VideoArt
Tamara De Lempicka | The Dream | VideoArt
Nathaniel Skousen ~ American Figurative painter
Fabian Perez | The Three Tenors
Karen Dupré ~ My Fair Lady | VideoArt
Roma nun fa la stupida stasera..
Richard MacDonald, 1946 | Figurative sculptor | Cirque du Soleil
José Villa Soberón, 1950 | John Lennon Memorial, Havana, 2000
Robert Heindel | Ballet dancers
Robert Heindel | The Royal Ballet dancers
Kaspar von Zumbusch | Beethoven Monument, Vienna, 1880
Mark Spain, 1962 | Figurative painter | VideoArt
Edgar Degas | The Ballet dancers
Nicoletta Tomas, 1963 | Figurative painter | VideoArt
Roberto Ferri, 1978
Aung Kyaw Htet, 1965 | Figurative painter | VideoArt
Alan Giana | Fantasy painter
Ilya Repin | Historical / Genre painter
Alexander Hodukov | Video
Serge Marshennikov, 1971 | Realistic figurative painter | VideoArt
Ancient Petra | Hellenistic architecture
Jake Baddeley, 1964 | Magic Realism painter
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Bertalan Karlovszky (1858-1938)
Berthe Morisot, Le Mandoline, 1889
Andre Bouys - La Barre and Other Musicians, 1710
La musica (dal greco antico μουσική, mousikḗ, «arte delle Muse») è l'arte di ideare e produrre, mediante l'uso di strumenti musicali o della voce, successioni strutturate di suoni semplici o complessi, che possono variare per altezza, per intensità e per timbro, organizzati secondo le dimensioni di melodia, armonia e ritmo.
È uno degli aspetti culturali universali di tutte le società umane.
Il significato del termine musica non è comunque univoco ed è molto dibattuto tra gli studiosi per via delle diverse accezioni utilizzate nei vari periodi storici.
Etimologicamente il termine musica deriva dall'aggettivo greco μουσικός/musikòs, relativo alle Muse, figure della mitologia greca e romana, riferito in modo sottinteso a tecnica, anch'esso derivante dal greco τέχνη/techne.
In origine il termine non indicava una particolare arte, bensì tutte le arti delle Muse, e si riferiva a qualcosa di "perfetto".
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Claude Debussy
Tamara De Lempicka
Edgar Degas - Violinist and Young Woman, 1872
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