In Music
- In classical music, common time is constructed of four beats.
- The number of movements in a symphony.
- The number of completed, numbered symphonies by Johannes Brahms.
- The number of strings on a violin, a viola, a cello, double bass, a cuatro and a ukulele, and the number of string pairs on a mandolin.
- Four, an album by Blues Traveler
- 4, an album by Foreigner
- Miles Davis has a song entitled "Four."
- 4, a song by electronic artist Aphex Twin
- 4, an album by Beyoncé Knowles
- "Four colly birds" is the gift on the fourth day of Christmas in the carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)
“It was a poetic recreation to watch those distant sails steering for half-fabulous ports, whose very names are a mysterious music to our ears.... It is remarkable that men do not sail the sea with more expectation. Nothing was ever accomplished in a prosaic mood.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)