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Music is an art form consisting of sound and silence. Elements of music are pitch, rhythm, dynamics, structure, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture.

The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions (and their recreation in performance), through improvisational music to aleatoric forms. Music can be divided into genres and sub-genres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial. Within “the arts”, music can be classified as a performing art, a fine art, or an auditory art form.

The history of music predates the written word. The development of music among humans must have taken place against the backdrop of natural sounds such as birdsong and the sounds other animals use to communicate. Prehistoric music is the name given to all music produced in preliterate cultures.

The advent of the Internet has greatly transformed the experience of music, most notably through the greatly increased ease with which people can access music content and the greatly increased choice of accessible music. According to Anderson, in his book, The Long Tail: Why the future of business is selling less of more, he proposes that while the previous supply and demand economic model was based on scarcity, the new Internet model is based on abundance. In contrast to real life, space on a server costs next to nothing, so a company can afford to make their whole inventory available. Since almost everything can be put online, costumers now basically have infinite choice. This breaks the old model of supply and demand because now there is no reason not to make available products that very few people are interested in. And thus, there is now a trend of consumers’ increasing consciousness of choice resulting in a closer association between choice of listening and identity as well as the creation of thousands of niches.

Another effect the Internet has had on music comes from online communities like Youtube and Myspace. Myspace has made social networking with other musicians much easier and greatly facilitates distribution of one’s music. Youtube is another forum that has a large community of both amateur and professional musicians participating in posting videos and commenting. Professional musicians are also using Youtube as free promotional publishing.

Viewed differently, Youtube users are no longer content to just consume content, like downloading and listening to mp3s, but are now actively creating their own content. According to Tapscott and Williams, there has been a shift from a traditional consumer role to a “prosumer” role, a consumer who creates value and well as consumes it. Manifestations of this in music are the production of mashes, remixes, and music videos by fans.

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