Ambient music

Ambient music is a genre of music that highlight the tone and atmosphere over normal musical structure or rhythm. Often "peaceful" sounding and lacking of composition, beat, and melody,[1] ambient music uses textural layers of sound that can heard both in passive and active listening,[2] and make a sense of calming.[3][4] The genre makes an "atmospheric", "visual", or "unobtrusive" quality.[5] Nature soundscapes may be included, and some works use sustained or repeated notes, as in drone music. Multiple elements related with new-age music, instruments such as the piano, strings and flute may be emulated through a synthesizer.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ The Ambient Century by Mark Prendergast, Bloomsbury, London, 2003.
  2. ↑ Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak, Easy Listening & Other Moodsong by Joseph Lanza, Quartet, London, 1995.
  3. ↑ Crossfade: A Big Chill Anthology, Serpents Tail, London, 2004.
  4. ↑ "Ambient music". Dictionary.com. Archived from the original on 2018-02-12.
  5. ↑ "Ambient". Dictionary by Merriam-Webster. Archived from the original on 2015-04-20.
  6. ↑ "Ambient". Cambridge Dictionary. Archived from the original on 2018-02-12.
  7. ↑ George Grove, Stanley Sadie, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Macmillan Publishers, 1st ed., 1980 (ISBN 0-333-23111-2), vol. 7 (Fuchs to Gyuzelev), "André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry", p. 708: "in L'épreuve villageoise, where the various folk elements – couplet form, simplicity of style, straightforward rhythm, drone bass in imitation of bagpipes – combine to express at once ingenuous coquetry and sincerity."
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