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A composer ( ___MASK9___ " compn "; literally " one who puts together ") is a person who creates or writes music , which can be vocal music ( for a singer or choir ), instrumental music ( e . g ., for solo piano , string quartet , wind quintet or orchestra ) or music which combines both instruments and voices ( e . g ., opera or art song , which is a singer accompanied by a pianist ). The core meaning of the term refers to individuals who have contributed to the tradition of Western classical music through creation of works expressed in written musical notation ( e . g ., sheet music scores ). Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound and silence , which exist in time . The common elements of music are pitch ( which governs melody and harmony ), rhythm ( and its associated concepts tempo , meter , and articulation ), dynamics ( loudness and softness ), and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ( which are sometimes termed the " color " of a musical sound ). Different styles or types of music may emphasize , de - emphasize or omit some of these elements . Music is performed with a vast range of instruments and vocal techniques ranging from singing to rapping ; there are solely instrumental pieces , solely vocal pieces ( such as songs without instrumental accompaniment ) and pieces that combine singing and instruments . The word derives from ___MASK1___  (" mousike "; " art of the Muses "). In its most general form , the activities describing music as an art form include the production of works of music ( songs , tunes , symphonies , and so on ), the criticism of music , the study of the history of music , and the aesthetic examination of music . Ancient ___MASK1___ and Indian philosophers defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies . Common sayings such as " the harmony of the spheres " and " it is music to my ears " point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to . However , 20th - century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music , saying , for example , " There is no noise , only sound ." Simon Sechter ( 11 October 1788 -- 10 September 1867 ) was an Austrian music theorist , teacher , organist , conductor and composer . He may have been the most prolific composer who ever lived , outdoing even Georg Philipp Telemann in the quantity of his output . Carl Christian Müller ( 1831 -- 1914 ) compiled and adapted Sechter ' s Die richtige Folge der Grundharmonien as The Correct Order of Fundamental Harmonies : A Treatise on Fundamental Basses , and their Inversions and Substitutes ( Wm . A . Pond , 1871 ; G . Schirmer , 1898 ) . ___MASK9___ ( ___MASK9___ : ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo - European languages . The ___MASK9___ alphabet is derived from the Etruscan and ___MASK1___ alphabets . Eisenach is a town in Thuringia , Germany with 42 , 000 inhabitants , located west of Erfurt , southeast of Kassel and northeast of Frankfurt . It is the main urban centre of western Thuringia and bordering northeastern Hessian regions , situated near the former Inner ___MASK21___ border . A major attraction is Wartburg castle , which has been a UNESCO world heritage site since 1999 . Georg Philipp Telemann ( 25 June 1767 ) was a ___MASK21___ Baroque composer and multi - instrumentalist . Almost completely self - taught in music , he became a composer against his family ' s wishes . After studying in Magdeburg , Zellerfeld , and Hildesheim , Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law , but eventually settled on a career in music . He held important positions in Leipzig , Sorau , Eisenach , and Frankfurt before settling in Hamburg in 1721 , where he became musical director of the city ' s five main churches . While Telemann ' s career prospered , his personal life was always troubled : his first wife died only a few months after their marriage , and his second wife had extramarital affairs and accumulated a large gambling debt before leaving Telemann . Opera ( ___MASK32___ plural : " operas "; Italian plural : " opere " ) is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text ( libretto ) and musical score , usually in a theatrical setting . In traditional opera , singers do two types of singing : recitative , a speech - inflected style and arias , a more melodic style . Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre , such as acting , scenery , and costumes and sometimes includes dance . The performance is typically given in an opera house , accompanied by an orchestra or smaller musical ensemble , which since the early 19th century has been led by a conductor . Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of music notation that uses modern musical symbols to indicate the pitches ( melodies ), rhythms and / or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece . Like its analogs  printed books or pamphlets in ___MASK32___ , Arabic or other languages  the medium of sheet music typically is paper ( or , in earlier centuries , papyrus or parchment ), although the access to musical notation since the 1980s has included the presentation of musical notation on computer screens and the development of scorewriter computer programs that can notate a song or piece electronically , and , in some cases , " play back " the notated music using a synthesizer or virtual instruments . Frankfurt am Main is a metropolis and the largest city in the ___MASK21___ state of Hesse and the fifth - largest city in Germany , with a 2015 population of 731 , 095 within its administrative boundaries , and 2 . 3 million in its urban area . The city is at the centre of the larger Frankfurt Rhine - Main Metropolitan Region , which has a population of 5 . 8 million and is Germany ' s second - largest metropolitan region after Rhine - Ruhr . Since the enlargement of the European Union in 2013 , the geographic centre of the EU is about to the east of Frankfurt ' s CBD , the Bankenviertel . Frankfurt is culturally and ethnically diverse , with around half of the population , and a majority of young people , having a migration background . A quarter of the population are foreign nationals , including many expatriates . Leipzig is the largest city in the federal state of Saxony , Germany . With a population of 570 , 087 inhabitants ( 1 , 001 , 220 residents in the larger urban zone ) it is Germany ' s tenth most populous city . Leipzig is located about southwest of Berlin at the confluence of the White Elster , Pleisse and Parthe rivers at the southern end of the North ___MASK21___ Plain . Hamburg ( local pronunciation ; Low ___MASK21___ / Low Saxon : " Hamborg " ), officially " Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg " ( Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ), is the second largest city in Germany and the eighth largest city in the European Union . It is the second smallest ___MASK21___ state by area . Its population is over 1 . 7 million people , and the wider Hamburg Metropolitan Region covers more than 5 . 1 million inhabitants . The city is situated on the river Elbe .