Wednesday, September 28, 2011

GENRE OF MUSIC

Play for music talking about music genre. Music genre is a grouping of music according to its resemblance to one another. Music can also be grouped according to other criteria, such as geography. A genre of music can be defined by technique, style, context, and theme music.

The Flow or Style Musics Grouping

 In general, music grouped according to their usefulness, which can be grouped into three major domains, namely Art Music, Popular Music, and Traditional Music.

  • Musical Arts
Art music is a grouping of classical music to the music and the music of its kind to be assessed in addition to the historical value of the value of his art. This type of music is more used to refer to the types of music are very obedient to the theories of music and is usually difficult for a layman to understand (unless that has begun will know the style of Popular Music).
  • Classical Music
Classical music usually refers to European classical music, but sometimes also on the classical music of Persia, India, and others. European classical music itself consists of several periods, such as baroque, classical, and romantic.Classical music is a broad term, usually refers to music that is rooted in the tradition of Western art, Christian music, and orchestral music, covering the period from about the 9th century to the 21st century. [1]European classical music is distinguished on the basis of musical form, non-European and popular music, especially by the music notation system, which has been used since the 16th century. [2] Western music notation used by composers to give guidance to carriers on the high-tone music, speed , metrum, individual rhythm, and appropriate disposition of a musical work. This limits the existence of practices such as improvisation and ad libitum ornamentation that is often heard on non-European music (compare Indian classical music and traditional Japanese music) and popular music.Formerly classical music in Europe is mainly used for the purposes of songs in church or accompaniment tracks for the King. In line with the development, classical music began to emerge also used for other purposes, such as classical music which describes audio visual, for example the song Cat and Mouse that describe a cat chasing a mouse.
  • Popular Music (Popular Music)
Popular music is the types of music that is currently favored by the common people. This kind of music is music that fit with the current state of the time, so the fit in the ear of most people. Some genres of music including Popular Music is Pop, Funk, Jazz, Blues, Rock, Gospel, Underground, and others. Music genres can be found in almost all parts of the world because of the nature of his music that could almost universally accepted.
  • Jazz
Jazz is the kind of music that grew from the merger of blues, ragtime, and European music, particularly band music. Several subgenres is Dixieland jazz, swing, bebop, hard bop, cool jazz, free jazz, jazz fusion, smooth jazz, and CafJazz.
  • Gospel
Gospel is a genre dominated by vocals and usually have a Christian theme. Some subgenrenya is contemporary gospel and urban contemporary gospel. Gospel songs are actually kind of have a feel similar to the Rock n Roll (Rock n Roll hence itself is actually a fusion or a combination of Rock, Jazz, and Gospel), originally introduced by the first Christians blacks in America. Some current examples are still actually use the flow of gospel music is Israel Houghton. However, the current understanding of gospel music has expanded into a whole genre of spiritual music. In Indonesia, gospel music homage to pop and rock much popularized by musicians such as Franky Sihombing, Giving My Best, Nikita, True Worshippers, and much more.
  • Blues
Blues comes from the Afro-American community that evolved from West African music. This in turn affects many types of genres of pop music today, including ragtime, jazz, big band, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, country, and pop music.
  • Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues is the name of the traditional music of Afro-American, that black pop music from the 1940s until the 1960s that was not jazz or the blues.
  • Funk
Funk also pioneered by musicians Afro-American, such as James Brown, Parliament-Funkadelic, and Sly and the Family Stone. Funk music of this type usually has a groovy beat tone, a rhythm that makes the listener chuckle to the rhythm. Therefore, in many ways, often equated with a groovy funk.
  • Rock
Rock, in the broadest sense, covering almost all popular music since the early 1950s. The earliest form, rock and roll, is a blend of various genres in the late 1940s, with musicians such as Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, and Elvis Presley. It is then heard by people around the world, and in the mid-1960s several British music group, such as the Beatles, began to imitate and become popular.Rock music evolved into psychedelic rock, progressive rock later became. Some British bands like The Yardbirds and The Who later evolved into hard rock, and then became heavy metal. The late 1970s punk rock music began to evolve, with groups like The Clash, The Ramones, and Sex Pistols. In the 1980's, rock continue to grow, especially evolved into hardcore metal, thrash metal, glam metal, death metal, black metal and grindcore. There is also a british rock and underground.
  • Electronic
Electronic begins long before the invention of the synthesizer, with tape loops and analogue electronic musical instruments in the 1950's and 1960's. The founders were John Cage, Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
  • Ska, Reggae, Dub
From the combination of R & B music and traditional music of Jamaica appears mento ska, and later developed into reggae and dub.
  • Hip hop / Rap / Rapcore
Hip hop music can be considered a subgenre of R & B. Beginning in the early 1970s and the 1980s, this music was originally developed in the U.S. east coast, called the East Coast hip hop. At around 1992, hip-hop music from the west coast also began to be known as a West Coast hip hop. This type of music is also mixed with the heavy metal rapcore produce.
  • Pop
Pop music is a genre important but its boundaries are often blurred, as many pop musicians are also incorporated into the category of rock, hip hop, country, etc.
  • Traditional Music
Traditional music is music that lives in the community for generations, retained not as a means of entertainment only, but there is also used for treatment and there being a means of communication between man and its creator, this is according to the beliefs of each person alone. Traditional music is a treasure of local art in the community. Traditional music in Indonesia, including the gamelan, angklung and Sasando. apart from traditional music originating from the local culture, there are also traditional music originating from outside cultural influences such as xylophone Kromong, marawis and keroncong.

  • Latin
Traditional Latin music genre are usually referring to the Latin American music including music from Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. Latin music is a subgenre Samba.

  • Country
Traditional country music influenced by blues, and evolved from the white American culture, especially in the city of Nashville. Some of the early country artists are Merle Haggard and Buck Owens.

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