What makes music music?

Does the vocalization of a song piece make it "music," or is it the instruments and everything along with instrumentation that creates the term "music" in your opinion?

If there are instruments there, obviously the addition of vocals doesn't make it music.

Can you be more specific?

-AC

From Merriam-Webster:

a: the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity
b: vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony

pretty much if someone's singing or there's some form of intrument playing, even drums, it's music to me. *shrug*

Originally posted by Kelly_Bean
Does the vocalization of a song piece make it "music," or is it the instruments and everything along with instrumentation that creates the term "music" in your opinion?

it is melody.... sounds... notes... stuff like that and they get put together to make awsome,beatuiful, shitty music

rhythm

Even talking can be music. So can some one banging together sticks or banging a rock on a skull.

Originally posted by lord xyz
Ermm, music is sound that's organised/sequanced. That's how I see it.

Like a speech?