In the popular music of the USA, the music craze that bridged the 19th and 20th centuries were called ragtime.
What is music?
Combine vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) to create the beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.
The art of sound expresses ideas and emotions in important ways through elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
Any timbre or sound used, occurring in a single line (melody) or in multiple lines (harmony), sounded or intended to be sounded by one or more voices or instruments, or both.
It combines vocal or instrumental sounds, usually according to cultural norms of rhythm, melody, and harmony in most Western music, for form beauty or emotional expression.
Both simple folk songs and complex electronic music belong to the same activity of music.
