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The human brain is wired to respond to sound. Music adds meaning and dimension that is hard to capture with just text.

Elements such as pitch, melody, harmony, timbre, amplitude, scale, and tones, along with the graduated series of notes or intervals dividing octaves, have an affective, emotional, psychological, cognitive, an

Musical tone can boil thoughts away. This is the open secret of making music. Set the string to vibrating again, lock your hearing onto its energy and be absorbed into its disappearance.

W. A. Mathieu • The Listening Book

in classical music, a number of Italian words have been adopted to describe these shifts, from pianissimo (very soft) to fortissimo (very loud),

Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz

Compose with a minimum one M-voice—M for “melodic”—and one T-voice—T for “tintinnabuli”, or T for “triad” to make a better mnemonic. These voices probably correspond to individual voices or instruments, but they might also be implied by a single melody just as one might find a “polyphonic melody” in baroque music.