music, n.Definitions

Music is a fluid architecture of sound.

Music is a less precise and yet much more effective language than words.

Music is a form (of time and sound) that rids us of the pervasive illusion that time is quantitative.

Music is a field of signifying that disperses meaning into a shimmering signifier.

Music is a chunk of time you are paying attention to with your ears.

Music is a form of social practice in which people's energies are put together.

Music is a field rather than a system because the referent is the body and the body passes into music.

Music is a 'sublime' art in that it relates to reality not by imitating it,(which it can't) but by rising above earthly passions into an ideal realm in order to move them.