Is music haram in Islam?

Music with instruments is considered prohibited by the majority of classical scholars, based on hadith that list instruments alongside other forbidden things. Singing with the voice alone, and the simple hand drum at weddings and Eid, are permitted in the same sources. Scholars who hold this view are not objecting to beauty or joy; their concern is with what the hadith name specifically and with what such gatherings usually involve. A smaller number of scholars have read the evidence differently and allowed instruments when the content is decent and the setting is free of other prohibitions. Because the question is discussed at length and the texts are quoted in full, the fuller treatment in the source article is worth reading before forming a view.