Achim Breiling wrote:

>So here is what I found in my encyclopedia (Meyers pocket encyclopedia, 24
>volumes, Brockhaus Verlag Mannheim) - badly translated:
>
> "The term music describes in his brodest sense a willful arrangement
> of sounds.  (Der Begriff Musik bezeichnet im weitesten Sinne ein
> absichtsvolles Arrangement von Klangereignissen)."

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh!  I like that one even better.  It reminds me of a
definition of art...namely, anything an artist chooses to call art.

Karl

 [So broad it includes simple speech.  Like I said before:  music is
 anything someone listens to as music.  Other definitions may feel
 better, but no other definition works.  -Dave]