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found music

found music noun: music created by taking natural or non-musical (non-instrumental/non-singing) sounds and combining them into, or as, a musical composition.

Noun

found music (uncountable)

  1. Music created by taking natural or non-musical (non-instrumental/non-singing) sounds and combining them into, or as, a musical composition.
    • Undaunted, Quinn has just finished a movie on stone carving in collaboration with the composer Roger Doyle, who specialises in found music. "I wanted to define prosaic images with strange and unusual sounds."1995, Ciaran Carty, Confessions of a Sewer Rat: A Personal History of Censorship & the Irish Cinema, →ISBN
    • French leadership in found literature has shifted to found music, musique concrete, in which natural sounds are introduced into musical compositions, often to the exclusion of traditional instrumentation.2005, John Robert Colombo, All the poems of John Robert Colombo

Questions about found music

What does found music mean?
Found music means music created by taking natural or non-musical (non-instrumental/non-singing) sounds and combining them into, or as, a musical composition.
What part of speech is found music?
Found music is a noun.

Words near found music in the dictionary

  1. found in
  2. found it in one's heart
  3. found it in oneself
  4. found literature
  5. found money
  6. found music
  7. found object
  8. found objects
  9. found on
  10. found one's account
  11. found one's ass with both hands and a flashlight

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