For those who join a poker room and come to point to where they want to play for real money, there are additional opportunities to play without cash. And these can be profitable. They are "Freeroll Tournaments" and "Player Point Programs". Freeroll tournaments are free entires into poker tournaments that cost nothing to get into. These pay cash or other awards to player depending on how well they did during tournament. You can either enter a freeroll when they are made available or you could receive an invitation from online poker room itself. Player point programs are points awarded from poker room to you based on your time at tables. Depending on program, these points can be redeemed for cash, merchandise or entry fees into satellite tournaments. You could potentially enter a satellite tournament with prize seats to World Poker Tour or World Series of Poker events and win huge amounts of cash. In 2004 Greg Raymer entered a satellite tournament through an online poker room, won a WSOP seat and eventually went on win World Series of Poker title and $5,000,000 in cash.

There are still other ways that will allow a person to play for free. When playing for fun at an online poker room, referring a real money player can result in actual cash for you to play with. And today charitable organizations, businesses or corporations offer online poker tournaments for promotion purposes. These are announced randomly, so keep your eyes and ears opened. Finally, consider signing up for free online surveys and focus groups that pay cash for participation. Just search Internet for online surveys or focus groups to get started. A person won't get rich or quit their job behind what they bring in, but money can fund entry fees for a number of low cost online poker tournaments.

One says music should be impersonal, abstract. Another school declares that it should always tell a story. Still another division of musical public says that music should go much farther than dictionary definition above quoted; that it not only is art of "combining tones to please ear," but that music should represent whole of life, whether it pleases ear or not.

In other words, if subject portrayed is one of pain, horror or calamity, then music must be of clash, cacophony, discord, entirely abjuring idea of beauty or "pleasing ear." Out of all this, long ago, arose question whether it was function of music merely to be beautiful, or whether, like painting, its mission is to portray all of life -- good and bad, pleasure and sorrow, happiness and horror.

That is a question no part of world can settle for rest. Ever since music reached an advanced stage of development, it has been a bone of contention among musicologists and composers, and, no doubt, it will so continue for decades, and possibly for centuries.

So, not to enter discussion of it, simpler way is to accept such a generalized definition as that suggested above, and classify music as "thought expressed through tone," to which hardly any school of music, or composition, can take exception.