Music

As the article assigned states there is much argument surrounding what constitutes music over the years. Personally I go with the idea of the types of music musica universalis, musica humana, and musica instrumentalis. I think there are different levels of music. That produced by the world around us or musica universalis from birds, wind, running water or manmade things, that produced by humans or musica humana either by humming, clapping or singing, and finally musica intrumentalis or that produced by instruments such as piano, violin, etc.
Personally I enjoy all these to varying degrees. I think they are all parts of what music is in our world. I don’t think music necessarily needs a rhythm to be music. Some things are more pleasing to the ear than other but pretty much every sound in this world is part of the music of life. From the ticks of the clock to the solos of a saxophone in a jazz club to the sounds generated by the various fauna of our earth some of which can be very bizarre.