What difference is there between music and noise?

Answer 1

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/sound/U11L3a.html
Music is a mixture of sound waves which typically have whole number ratios between the frequencies associated with their notes. In fact, the major distinction between music and noise is that noise consists of a mixture of frequencies which have no mathematical order to them and music consists of a mixture of frequencies which have a clear mathematical relationship between them. While it may be true that "one person's music is another person's noise" (e.g., your music might be thought of by your parents as being noise), a physical analysis of musical sounds reveals a mixture of sound waves which are mathematically related.

Answer 2

Music is an art form that involves organized and audible sounds and silence. It is usually expressed in terms of pitch (which includes melody and harmony), rhythm (which includes tempo and meter), and the quality of sound (which includes timbre, articulation, dynamics, and texture). Music may also involve generative forms in time through the construction of patterns and combinations of natural stimuli, principally sound. Music may be used for artistic or aesthetic, communicative, entertainment, or ceremonial purposes. The definition of what constitutes music varies according to culture and social context.

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In common use the word noise means unwanted sound or noise pollution. In electronics noise can refer to the electronic signal corresponding to acoustic noise (in an audio system) or the electronic signal corresponding to the (visual) noise commonly seen as 'snow' on a degraded television or video image. In signal processing or computing it can be considered data without meaning; that is, data that is not being used to transmit a signal, but is simply produced as an unwanted by-product of other activities. In Information Theory, however, noise is still considered to be information. In a broader sense the film grain or even advertisements in web pages can be considered noise.

Noise can block, distort, or change the meaning of a message in both human and electronic communication.

In many of these areas, the special case of thermal noise arises, which sets a fundamental lower limit to what can be measured or signaled and is related to basic physical processes at the molecular level described by well known simple formulae.

--> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise

Answer 3

Music and noise are both combinations of sound. Music is usually defined as the ordered combination of sound in some sort of pattern to make notes, chords, and melodies where noise is just a bunch of sound in no real order.

Answer 4

Noise by definition is an undesirable sound.
Music is that which is something that has a tempo or rhythm or even an expression of something. By expression it is meant such as: "The sound of my children being quite is music to my ears."

–noun 1. sound, esp. of a loud, harsh, or confused kind: deafening noises.
2. a sound of any kind: to hear a noise at the door.
3. loud shouting, outcry, or clamor.
4. a nonharmonious or discordant group of sounds.
5. an electric disturbance in a communications system that interferes with or prevents reception of a signal or of information, as the buzz on a telephone or snow on a television screen.
6. Informal. extraneous, irrelevant, or meaningless facts, information, statistics, etc.: The noise in the report obscured its useful information.
7. Obsolete. rumor or gossip, esp. slander.
–verb (used with object) 8. to spread, as a report or rumor; disseminate (usually fol. by about or abroad): A new scandal is being noised about.
–verb (used without object) 9. to talk much or publicly.
10. to make a noise, outcry, or clamor.
—Idiom11. make noises, Informal. to speak vaguely; hint: He is making noises to the press about running for public office.

Answer 5

Music incorporates patterns with the intention of communicating something from one person to another. Often the intended communication is to evoke some emotion. Noise doesn't have this intent.

Answer 6

It depends on each individuals taste. I've heard noise that some people called music.

Answer 7

At this point, its entirely subjective.

Answer 8

music you can UNDERSTAND the words to it -n oise is this HEAD BANGING WANNA BE GANSTER LOWLIFE CRAP these young kids call music

Answer 9

in physics? nothing...