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organized air that can make strangers cry in the same key.
means The art of arranging sound — pitch, rhythm, and timbre — into patterns that move us, whether played, sung, or simply heard in the head.
from From Greek mousikē, "the art of the Muses" — those nine goddesses who presided over poetry, dance, and song. To the Greeks, mousikē meant far more than tunes: it covered the whole sweep of the arts the Muses inspired. The word travelled through Latin musica into Old French musique, narrowing along the way until it meant just the organized air we know today.
Light pretending to move, fooling your brain thirty times a second.
means Moving visual images, whether recorded, broadcast, or streamed, that play back as footage on a screen.
from Straight from Latin, where video simply means "I see" — first person singular of videre, "to see." It was coined in the 1930s as the visual counterpart to "audio" (Latin "I hear"), so the two halves of a screen experience each carry a tiny Latin confession: I see, I hear.