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When is considered a musical work a true Art Work piece?

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by Cesar Munoz   Music is not an art and believe me, when we clarify this, many controversies will end. Music is not an art, music is a language and with that language we can make works of art, but we can also make things that are not art or things that are artistically irrelevant even though they are still music. What can be called art? We enter into another controversy that is important to define. Obviously this is something very subjective and that anyone who wants or needs to call themselves an "artist" will accommodate it to their convenience. But I think there are certain fundamental things that we could all agree on. When is music considered a true work of art? Let's start a bit by strengthening this idea that music is a language and that not necessarily anything that is done with that language has to be considered a work of art. What is a language? A language is a system by which the human being communicates. There is written language, body language, spoken la