Music (disambiguation)

What this page actually is

This is a disambiguation page, which means it does not try to explain music itself. Instead, it collects different uses of the word "music" and points readers to the right one, like a polite receptionist with infinite patience and zero interest in your drama. On Wikipedia, that usually means the title is shared by a general concept and by lots of other pages that borrowed the name because creativity is hard and titles are easy.

The usual suspects

The page typically includes the main concept plus several other things that happen to be called music. The list is the internet's way of admitting that naming things is harder than making them.

• Music, the general art form, sounds organized through time
• Albums titled Music, because subtlety was not invited
• Songs titled Music, which is either elegant or lazy, depending on the year
• People, media, and software with Music in the title
• Other page names that need a nudge toward the right Wikipedia:Disambiguation path

How to know you meant this page

If your search included the word "disambiguation", you were probably not looking for a definition of the art form, you were looking for the index card that says where everything is. If you meant the broad topic, go to Music. If you meant a specific album, song, or other named thing, the trick is to add the medium, artist, or year, because apparently precision still has a fan club.

Why Wikipedia needs pages like this

Shared titles are inevitable, especially for words that are short, famous, and annoyingly flexible. A disambiguation page keeps the main article clean and lets readers choose without having to play title roulette. In other words, it is the least glamorous page on the site, but also one of the most useful. A tiny administrative miracle, dressed like a list.

Riferimenti

1. Wikipedia, "Music (disambiguation)"
2. Wikipedia, "Music"
3. Wikipedia, "Wikipedia:Disambiguation"
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Music"