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Additionally, Schaeffer ( 1968, 284 ) describes that the sound of classical music " has decays ; it is granular ; it has attacks ; it fluctuates, swollen with impurities — and all this creates a musicality that comes before any ' cultural ' musicality.

" Yet the definition according to the esthesic level does not allow that the sounds of classical music are complex, are noises, rather they are regular, periodic, even, musical sounds.

Another writer says, " My own position can be summarized in the following terms: just as music is whatever people choose to recognize as such, noise is whatever is recognized as disturbing, unpleasant, or both " ( Nattiez 1990, 47 – 48 ).

( see " music as social construct " below )