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Types of Classical Music

Alternative Art Punk Alternative Rock
Alternative Art Punk Alternative Rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

Anime
Anime

Classical music encompasses a broad array of styles and instruments. These anime focus on the appreciation of the art form or on classical musicians themselves, whether they’re amateurs or professionals.

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Arch - ABCBA
Arch - ABCBA

In music, arch form is a sectional structure for a piece of music based on repetition, in reverse order, of all or most musical sections such that the overall form is symmetric, most often around a central movement. The sections need not be repeated verbatim but must at least share thematic material.

Avant-Garde
Avant-Garde

Classical » Avant-Garde Music Avant-garde, a French phrase meaning "vanguard" or (literally, "advance guard"), describes movements or individuals at the forefront of innovation and experimentation in their fields.

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Baroque
Baroque

First off, to many people, “classical music” is a vague term meaning roughly “mostly-instrumental music written by dead (or obscure modern) composers, typically performed by people in formalwear,” and when used in this loose sense, it generally includes Baroque music.

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Bassoon Sonata
Bassoon Sonata

The delightful melody, in Mozart's distinctive style, occupies a high register, and it is a work in which one can fully enjoy the charms of the bassoon, referred to in the classical period as the "instrument of love." It is said that Mozart composed the piece for his friend Baron von Dürnitz, who loved the bassoon.

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Binary - AB
Binary - AB

Binary form is a musical form in two related sections, both of which are usually repeated. Binary is also a structure used to choreograph dance. In music this is usually performed as A-A-B-B.

Blues
Blues

The blues style is easily imitated and many composers and artists have utilized blues inflections and tonalities in their music. Later styles: include jazz blues, rhythm and blues and soul blues. Certain blues styles are named after the area in which they developed, such as Mississippi blues and Chicago blues.

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Blues Acoustic Blues Chicago Blues
Blues Acoustic Blues Chicago Blues

We now have a number of styles within Blues, some of which are Delta Blues, Swamp Blues, Chicago Blues, Texas Blues, British Blues, Blues Rock etc., each of these with their own playing style, sound and use of various types of guitars.

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Cello Sonata
Cello Sonata

The term sonata was increasingly applied to either a work for keyboard alone (see piano sonata), or for keyboard and one other instrument, often the violin or cello. It was less and less frequently applied to works with more than two instrumentalists; for example piano trios were not often labelled sonata for piano, violin, and cello.

Chamber Music
Chamber Music

Today, chamber music is performed very similarly in terms of the size of the venue and the number of instruments used. Typically, a chamber orchestra is composed of 40 or fewer musicians. Because of the limited number of instruments, each instrument plays an equally important role.

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Chant
Chant

Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic liturgical music within Western Christianity that accompanied the celebration of Mass and other ritual services. It is named after Pope Gregory I, Bishop of Rome from 590 to 604, who is traditionally credited for having ordered the simplification and cataloging of music assigned to specific celebrations in the church calendar.

Children's Music Lullabies Sing-Along
Children's Music Lullabies Sing-Along

Bedtime Baby Lullaby Classical Music Mozart Bach Beethoven Pachelbel Sleep Music 1 Hour Soothe baby to sleep with these soft classical songs. This relaxing classical music will help your child ease their way into a peaceful sleep. This video features classical songs from the greats such as Mozart, Beethoven, Back and Pachelbel with soothing visualizations. Lullaby music for babies.

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Choral
Choral

Choral music refers to music which is written for and sung by a choir. Each different part in a piece of choral music is sung by two or more voices. Since the size of a choir can vary, the structure of a choral composition also will vary.

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Clarinet Sonata
Clarinet Sonata

Gregory Wanamaker: Clarinet Sonata - Play streams in full or download MP3 from Classical Archives (classicalarchives.com), the largest and best organized classical music site on the web.

Classical
Classical

Classical music is a tricky genre, mainly because to the uninformed everything before jazz sounds like it! Indeed, Classical music and Baroque music both use orchestras to produce their distinctive sounds, but the way in which each does it is truly different.

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Classical Avant-Garde Baroque
Classical Avant-Garde Baroque

Avant Garde Classical Avant Garde Classical ... Medieval, Renaissance, and pre-Baroque music. Solo Classical Piano. Solo pieces showcasing the versatility of the piano. Classical Vocal. Motets, cantatas, choirs and more... just no drama (of the operatic sort) ...

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Classical Crossover
Classical Crossover

Simply put, Classical Crossover is a term used to describe artists that adopt strong classical influences in their music, but ultimately they have an accessible and popular sound or a marketable image to reach out to a wider audience.

Comedy Novelty Standup Comedy
Comedy Novelty Standup Comedy

Novelty-Comedy Our Novelty/Comedy Series of production music breathes fun, fun, fun into any production and is all royalty free. Can be downloaded immediately or shipped worldwide.

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Commercial (Thank you Sheldon Reynolds) Jingles
Commercial (Thank you Sheldon Reynolds) Jingles

What are all the music genres and sub-genres? ... Classical Crossover Early Music ... Commercial (thank you Sheldon Reynolds) Jingles

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Country
Country

The classical music of each country has its own flavour, characteristic chord progressions, rhythms, and forms derived from the folk music which informs it, although it seems to get farther from its origins with every generation, so that with more modern pieces it's not easy to tell any more.

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Country Alternative Country Americana
Country Alternative Country Americana

Alternative country (sometimes alt-country, insurgent country, or Americana) is a loosely defined subgenre of country music, which includes acts that differ significantly in style from mainstream country music and pop country music. Alternative country artists are often influenced by alternative rock.

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Early Music
Early Music

The context is European classical music, which had its best-known pieces written in the 1700s & 1800s, and so the "early" in early music means earlier than that. In this way, early music usually designates the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods of Western music.

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Electronic
Electronic

Originally Answered: Is there any music that mixes classical music and electronica? There are several artists that mix classical and electronic music. The first one I heard was Isao Tomita, with a nice version of Holst “The Planets” and “The Grand Canyon Suite”.

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Flute Sonata
Flute Sonata

Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Flute and Piano Poulenc’s works represent a more contemporary approach to music, although they are mainly tonal and more eclectic by their nature. The sonata completed in 1957 gracefully honors both the piano and the flute, which is something that composers avoided for long as they wanted the piano to only accompany the ”main” instrument in sonatas of this kind.

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Folk
Folk

While contemporary folk music is a genre generally distinct from traditional folk music, in English it shares the same name, and it often shares the same performers and venues as traditional folk music.

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High Classical
High Classical

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music. While a more precise term is also used to refer to the period from 1750 to 1820 (the Classical period), this article is about the broad span of time from before the 6th century AD to the present day, which includes the Classical period and various other periods.

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Jazz
Jazz

As the London jazz festival gets into full swing, this week’s 10 picks are devoted to that much denigrated, occasionally inspired, sometimes insipid, but also genuinely fruitful interzone between jazz and classical. There’s a deeply problematic but potentially catalytic cultural politics and ...

New age
New age

Douglas Groothuis stated that rejection of all music labeled as "new age" would be to fall prey to a taboo and quarantine mentality, as most of the music belongs to the "progressive" side of new-age music, where composers necessarily do not have a New Age worldview.

Piano Sonata
Piano Sonata

Crucial to most interpretations of the sonata form is the idea of a tonal center; and, as the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music puts it: "The main form of the group embodying the 'sonata principle', the most important principle of musical structure from the Classical period to the 20th century: that material first stated in a complementary key be restated in the home key" (Sadie 1988, [page needed]).

Reggae
Reggae

There's nothing quite like Jamaican music, whether it's mento, ska, rocksteady, roots reggae, dub, or dancehall and beyond, and all of these styles are evident in this two-disc, 40-track set drawn from the Trojan Records vaults.

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Rondo - ABACA, or ABACADA
Rondo - ABACA, or ABACADA

Rondo and its French part-equivalent, rondeau, are words that have been used in music in a number of ways, most often in reference to a musical form but also to a character type that is distinct from the form.

Sonata Form - Exposition
Sonata Form - Exposition

Exposition in classical sonata form The term is most widely used as an analytical convenience to denote a portion of a movement identified as an example of classical tonal sonata form. The exposition typically establishes the music's tonic key, and then modulates to, and ends in, the dominant.

Sonata Rondo
Sonata Rondo

Common Forms in Classical Music. Some forms have become so common that they are a way to identify a type of song. This is particularly the case in classical music, where many songs are named or referred to by their form. Some examples are the theme and variation, the rondo, the sonata, the concerto and the symphony.

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Strophic - AAA, etc
Strophic - AAA, etc

Simply defined, a strophic song is a type of song that has the same melody across each stanza, or strophe, but different lyrics for each stanza. The strophic form is sometimes referred to as the AAA song form, alluding to its repetitive nature.

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Ternary - ABA
Ternary - ABA

Ternary form, sometimes called song form, is a three-part musical form where the first section (A) is repeated after the second section (B) ends.

Viola Sonata
Viola Sonata

Classical Viola Music & Music For Viola The viola is a string instrument that is generally played using a bow, but it can also be played used various other techniques. The viola is the middle voice, or the alto, of the violin family, positioned between the violin and the cello.

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Violin Sonata
Violin Sonata

The Classical Sonata Introduction Sonata (sonate; from Latin and Italian: sonare, “to sound”), in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian cantare, “to sing”), a piece sung.