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Types of Music

Alternative Art Punk Alternative Rock
Alternative Art Punk Alternative Rock

At times, "alternative" has been used as a catch-all description for music from underground rock artists that receives mainstream recognition, or for any music, whether rock or not, that is seen to be descended from punk rock (including some examples of punk itself, as well as new wave, and post-punk).

Anime
Anime

"anime music" is short for anime theme music or anime soundtrack music. This can be either the openning credits theme, the ending credits theme, any insert song, or simply just the background score. Japanese music tends to get lump in to this genre because usually that's what they are.

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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

Find Avant-Garde Music Albums, Artists and Songs, and Hand-Picked Top Avant-Garde Music Music on AllMusic

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Baroque
Baroque

Derived from the Portuguese barroco, or “oddly shaped pearl,” the term “baroque” has been widely used since the nineteenth century to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750.

source: baroque.org
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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

Certain blues styles are named after the area in which they developed, such as Mississippi blues and Chicago blues. Lesson Summary Sung blues is a type of vocal music that is highly personal, although earlier instrumental pieces called blues sound more like ragtime music.

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Blues Acoustic Blues Chicago Blues
Blues Acoustic Blues Chicago Blues

Chicago was recording central for most blues recording artists of the 1930s and '40s, and most performers were plugged into what has became known as "the Bluebird Beat," an acoustic-based progenitor of the later electric Chicago blues band lineup.

source: allmusic.com
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Chamber Music
Chamber Music

Originally, chamber music referred to a type of classical music that was performed in a small space such as a house or a palace room. The number of instruments used was also few without a conductor to guide the musicians.

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Chant
Chant

A chant (from French chanter, from Latin cantare, "to sing") is the iterative speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two main pitches called reciting tones.

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

Download these songs at http://mcclungmusic.com/kids_music/ 1 hour of animated sing-along songs, nursery rhymes and lullabies for kids. Don't forget to click...

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Choral
Choral

Choral music can include styles such as motets, cantatas, oratorios and anthems. Choral music is any style of composition intended to be sung by a choir. Choral music can include styles such as motets, cantatas, oratorios and anthems.

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Classical
Classical

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western music, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

Classical Avant-Garde Baroque
Classical Avant-Garde Baroque

Avant Garde Classical Avant Garde Classical Serious music from contemporary composers Play ... Medieval, Renaissance, and pre-Baroque music. Classical Relaxation.

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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.

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Comedy Novelty Standup Comedy
Comedy Novelty Standup Comedy

They go by different names: Musical stand-up comics, comedy-folk duos, two-man novelty bands, or perhaps they’re simply comedians with a penchant for songwriting. Call it what you like, but using music for comedic purposes is nothing new.

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

The common elements of music are pitch ... Music – Where world falls, it speaks. ... (thank you Sheldon Reynolds) Jingles; TV Themes;

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Country
Country

Country music (/ ˈ k ʌ n t r i /), also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as folk music (especially Appalachian folk and Western music) and blues.

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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 term "early music" sometimes causes confusion. As a very casual indication, music from the 1400s is early music in the sense which we use here, whereas music from the 1940s is not. 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.

source: medieval.org
Electronic
Electronic

Electronic music. Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology. An electronic musician is a musician who composes or performs such music.

Folk
Folk

American Folk Music. Traditionally sung and played within communities, that is, not created or produced for popular consumption, American folk music became embedded in mainstream tradition, creating some combination of folk and pop music, during the mid-20th Century "folk music revival.

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Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.

High Classical
High Classical

Other articles where High Classical period is discussed: Western architecture: High Classical (c. 450–400 bc): …of Greek architecture of the high Classical period were the buildings constructed under Pericles for the Athenian Acropolis.

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Jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a kind of music in which improvisation is typically an important part. In most jazz performances, players play solos which they make up on the spot, which requires considerable skill.

New age
New age

New-age music was influenced by a wide range of artists from a variety of genres. Tony Scott's Music for Zen Meditation (1964) is considered to be the first New-age recording. Paul Horn (beginning with 1968's Inside) was one of the important pioneers.

Pop
Pop

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.[4] The terms "popular music" and "pop music" are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many styles.

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Punk
Punk

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in 1960s garage rock and other forms of what is now known as "proto-punk" music, punk rock bands rejected perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock.

R & B
R & B

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues.

source: r-project.org
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Rap
Rap

Rap is a vocal technique that emphasizes rhyme, rhythm, and individual expression. Rap is one component of hip-hop subculture, alongside break dancing, graffiti, and DJing. As the most well-known aspect of hip-hop, rap is one of the most important forms of American popular culture.

source: study.com
Reggae
Reggae

According to an early definition in The Dictionary of Jamaican English (1980), reggae is based on ska, an earlier form of Jamaican popular music, and employs a heavy four-beat rhythm driven by drums, bass guitar, electric guitar, and the “scraper,” a corrugated stick that is rubbed by a plain stick.

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Rock 'n Roll
Rock 'n Roll

Rock and roll. Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, from African American musical styles such as gospel, jump blues, jazz, boogie woogie, and rhythm and blues, along with country music.

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

Rondo - ABACA, or ABACADA; Arch - ABCBA; ... Labels: arch, binary, contrast, form, music, music theory, musical form, phrase, repetition, rondo, section ...

Sonata Rondo - ABA - C - ABA
Sonata Rondo - ABA - C - ABA

Sonata Rondo - ABA - C - ABA; Posted by Komponist. Labels: arch, binary, contrast, form, music, music theory, musical form, phrase, repetition, rondo, section ...

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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. Another name for the strophic song is the one-part song form because each part of the song features one melody.

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Ternary - ABA
Ternary - ABA

Simple ternary form In ternary form each section is self-contained both thematically as well as tonally (that is, each section contains distinct and complete themes), and ends with an authentic cadence.