D. Stephen Heersink wrote: >>"The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, >>unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, >>and timbre" is the definition the American Heritage Dictionary gives for >>"music." Karl Miller responded: >My dictionary, The Harvard Dictionary of Music "The term is derived from >the Greek, muse, and more specifically the art (technique) of the Muses. >Originally this term included all the cultural endeavors represented by >the nine Muses...As early as 300 B.C., Aristoxenos had divided music into >theoretical and practical music. It was not until about 1500 that this >classification, still valid, was reintroduced." 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)." Achim Breiling