This article is an attempt to analyze the types of music and the ways that artists use to express themselves. First of all we have to find out the answer to one question: what is music? Everyone seems to know that but when we are trying to define the term music, there appear some difficulties. One can define music as an artful organization of sound and silence. This is mostly a formal description. Referring to subjective feelings, we may also add that this organization should be pleasant to hear, melodic and harmonic. Modern artists also use the combination of music and words to make their songs, and we also call this art music. IN general words, the attitude and tastes to music, and the whole understanding of muss are defined by our perception. It's also a known fact that deaf people can hear the vibrations of music, and there are several examples of deaf people who played or even created music. There can be also outlined 6 different types of meaning in music. The first is general meaning of music, the combination of sounds, it is related to the formal definition of music and is represented in any type of music; this type of meaning deals with the impression that music creates in the whole, the way that sounds re connected between each other.

The second meaning involves the emotions put into music. The phenomenon of music is that people from different countries and cultures, people knowing different languages can understand and feel what the author wanted to express by this or that song or melody. It is clearly seen in classical music which is usually not accompanied by words but nevertheless touches the hearts of millions of people all over the world. We may say that music can carry information and emotions like an international language: this is the second meaning.

The next meaning of music considers the fact that music may use associations: this meaning is connected more with music accompanied by words or images. Once a particular image is associated in our memory with an image or a feeling, this very combination may cause the same feeling when repeated.The fourth meaning includes referencing in music: a certain piece or song may touch memories of another event or even piece of music and remind it with similar motives or melodies; in this way an artist may also send his emotions to the listeners.

The next meaning is related to words that accompany the music: the story of how composer was feeling or in what situation he was while writing the piece can change our understanding and impression of the piece; the stories in the opera also make the meaning and emotional mood of an opera extract closer to the listener.

And finally the last meaning explains how words connected with music may change our perception of it: this meaning is one of the mostly related to modern song writers and modern music. There are artists who put more emotions and information into the melody or rhythm of the song, and there are artists who rely mostly on words, in this case music stands on the second place. With the development of technique and the possibility of writing CD`s more and more artists write songs accompanied with words rather than purely instrumental music.

These were the general ways of creating the impression in music and passing the emotions to the listeners that may be used by an artist.There are also different ways of creating the sound of the piece and creating harmony. Nowadays a lot of artists use electronic means to create new sounds and their combinations; the abilities of these means are far wider than the variety of sounds given by traditional instruments, but live music and singing still can't be totally replaced by electronic means.

During the development of the mankind there have appeared different types of music, the major of them being: classical music (or art music), jazz, country music, soul music, punk music, Reggae, dub and related forms, rock and roll, hip hop, electronic music, electronic dance music, melodic music. These are only the main directions of music; there also exist a lot of mid-directions which combine the peculiarities of this or that musical genre. All these genres use their own ways of combining melody and their own means of impressing the listeners. But all of these genres use the above-listed meanings of music and all the varied possibilities to create an emotional mood of a play, song or piece can be classified according to these meanings.