Music
According to the Tenth Doctor, with music, once could "dance to it, sing with it, fall in love to it. Unless you're a Dalek of course. Then it's all just noise". (TV: Evolution of the Daleks)
Most forms of music needed to have a rhythmic or thudding beat. (PROSE: Happy Endings, Revolution Man) Rock and roll was one such form. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark)
Music could also a melodic structure or upon a rhythmic foundation, complete with chanting. (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire)
Music could also be defined as; a complex flow of notes all played on the same instrument. (PROSE: Sleep)
Music could be written down on paper as sheet music, or in some cases painted into a painting, as was the case with Rassilon's Lament. (PROSE: Emotional Chemistry, Blood Harvest)
History of music styles
The Seventh Doctor considered Ace's music from her boombox anachronistic in 1963. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)
By mid-2596 some music could be classified as "club-generic, layered, white-noise structures, underlaid with low-level, subsonic dynamics operating directly on the limbic system". (PROSE: Return to the Fractured Planet)
At some point in the far future, music consisted of "harsh electronic sounds with a pumping bassline". (PROSE: Hope)
Genres of music
- Hardcore industrial techno (PROSE: Eternity Weeps)
- German industrial house (PROSE: Eternity Weeps)
- Jazz (PROSE: Dragons' Wrath)
- Disco music (PROSE: Beyond the Sun)
- Easy-listening music (PROSE: Mean Streets)
- Walz music (PROSE: Dry Pilgrimage)
- Martial music (PROSE: Dry Pilgrimage)
- Thrashmetal (PROSE: The Sword of Forever)
- Blues (PROSE: The City of the Dead)
- Classical music (TV: The End of the World)
Music uses
Harrison Chase believed plants liked music, and played music to them. (TV: The Seeds of Doom)
Guinevere One contained music samples. (TV: The Christmas Invasion)
Music was one of several bodies of human achievement archived on microfilm on the the Ark. (TV: The Ark in Space)
Allusions to music
Marco Polo likened a sandstorm to musical instruments being played. (TV: Marco Polo)
Galleia thought the sound of the Master's TARDIS materialising sounded like music. (TV: The Time Monster)
Time Lords
Gallifreyans demonstrated they valued music as a respected art. Adric thought Old High Gallifreyan sounded musical. (PROSE: Cold Fusion) A painting of Rassilon showed him with a harp.[source needed] The First Doctor was occasionally fond of singing and proud of his ability to "charm the birds from the trees" and used a perigosto stick in the Academy to make music. (TV: The Chase) He and the Master played in a band together in school. (PROSE: Deadly Reunion)
