Music the art of organizing sound structures in time. One of the fields of fine arts that influences human psyche through sounds.

Sound structures consist of sets of acoustic waves with deliberately selected frequencies and amplitudes and the silence in between. One of the goals of music is self-expression and the transmission of subjective feelings of the composer or performer, which influences the feelings, reactions and awareness of the listener who processes these experiences in a completely individual way. It differs from human speech by a much greater abstraction of the content conveyed and the use, in addition to the human voice, of musical instruments and all electronic, natural and inarticulate sounds.

Music is one of the manifestations of human culture. It can be assumed that music has always accompanied people at work, playing, resting and in rituals, and probably from the very beginning it was also associated with dance and words. At first, music served a practical purpose - it helped in teamwork, was a form of communication, and later it also became an element of collective identity. Over time, it developed as one of the branches of art.

Rhythmicity – in music and dance, an expression that describes all the phenomena concerning the rhythmic course in a piece. It is related to the time signature, it determines the measures of time, organizes the rhythmic waveforms with the help of regularly repeated accents. The type of rhythm affects the nature of the music, it is a kind of pulsation. Rhythmics is also the study of rhythm.

Melody – an element of a musical work ordering the sequence of sounds. Also: a set of melody features characteristic of a given style, epoch, group of composers, e.g. baroque melody, melody in works by Fryderyk Chopin. The melody is divided into - vocal (more seconds, limited mobility) and instrumental (greater interval differentiation).

Harmonica – one of the elements of a musical work. The harmony is defined by the sound scale used in the work, texture (e.g. monody, homophony, polyphony) and - if the texture of the work allows such a definition - by the way of combining multi-notes.

Dynamics – one of the elements of a musical work that determines the strength of a sound. Most musical instruments have the ability to produce sounds of varying volumes.

Tempo (agogic) – one of the elements of a musical work, indicating how quickly the piece is to be performed.

Articulation – one of the elements of a musical work that determines how the sound is extracted and shaped. Articulation also shapes phrasing and gives the musical piece the appropriate expression and complements it technically. There are a number of articulation terms, some of them are universal, others are specific to a given instrument.

Color – one of the elements of a musical work related to the performance means of the work. It allows you to see the differences between sounds of the same pitch sung or played by different instruments or voices.