Examples of songs of different genres. What are the styles of music? Main musical genres

This music is performed by a generation of musicians who grew up on jazz, funk and hip-hop, and uses elements from all three directions. Such traits of Acid Jazz as richness in percussion, as well as predominantly live performance, put this style closer to jazz and Afro-Cuban music than to other dance styles. On the other hand, the accentuated groove brings Acid Jazz closer to funk and hip-hop. The term itself first appeared in 1988, at the same time as the name of an American record label and an English series of compilations on which jazz and Funk music of the 70s was re-released and which the British had previously called rare groove. In the late 80s and early 90s, many Acid Jazz artists appeared, which were both “live” teams - Stereo MC's, James Taylor Quartet, the Brand New Heavies, Groove Collective, Galliano, Jamiroquai, and studio projects - PALm Skin Productions, Mondo GroSSO, Outside, and United Future Organization.

For the most part, the Alternative genre is characterized by the same features that have always been characteristic of Heavy Metal (powerful, loud guitars and thrashing riffs), but at the same time, the alternative direction has enriched the genre with a punk concept. Instead of strictly adhering to the traditional frivolous topics that dominated mainstream Heavy Metal, Alternative Metal bands were trying to tackle deeper issues, much like Metallica did, but without their recklessly fast tempos, intricate guitar solos and raucous, roaring vocals. .
Actually in music, alternative metalists initially adhered to more atonal (inharmonious) melodies than traditional metal bands. However, after Nirvana's Big Break in the early 90s, when Grunge came to dominate hard rock, all the hallmarks of Alternative Metal became more blurred: the genre began to stretch from the thrashing, dissonant Helmet to the important, stately riffs of Stone Temple Pilots ... Soon, most of the new metal bands were perceived exclusively as alternative ones, although apart from concert performances and the characteristic fuzzy distortion of their sound, there was little that distinguished them from traditional metalists.

Ambient was created on the basis of experiments with the synthesis of electronic music by musicians such as Brian Eno and Kraftwerk and dance trance techno in the 80s of the 20th century. Ambient uses electronic reverb and spatial sound technology, here important role the texture of the sound itself plays, and not the writing of lyrics and music. Music changes slowly, has a repetitive nature, so it may seem the same to an inexperienced listener. Although the content and timbre of the compositions of ambient performers have great differences among themselves. The ambient style became popular, cult music in the early 90s, thanks to the ambient techno musicians the Orb and Aphex Twin. Ambient literally means environment, enveloping, immersion. There is a legend about the origin of this style, according to which Ambient was invented by one of the greatest sound producers of the late 20th century, Brian Eno. Once in the hospital and lying bedridden for a long time, Ino began to listen to the sounds coming from the window of his room, looking for their inner melody in them. Then he began to record environmental noises and compose whole tracks from them. Then he released it all in several discs under common name Ambient. Of course, now you need to distinguish between Ambient original and electronic. Electronic ambient is soft, viscous music, in which there is no pronounced beat. This is calm music, in which noise loops are used as a background, and the main melody plays unobtrusively and, as a rule, is very long. Ambient often uses fragments of phrases, bits of sound from old films, high-tech sounds and, most importantly, a lot of reverb and echo. Now you can find very little ambient in pure form. Ambient elements are now present in almost all styles from house to hip-hop, so this style has leaked into all the others and is not going to go back into oblivion, from which Eno pulled it out. The most famous ambient musicians are Pete Namlook, Aphex Twin, Seefeel, The Future Sound of London, The Orb, Delerium.

Originating from the prolific dance scene in Miami (Freestyle) and Detroit (Electro) in the mid-80s, Bass Music brought the Funky-Breaks from the aesthetic of the 70s into the digital age with frequency drum machines capable of such a frenetic and bassy beat. that most car or club acoustics, of those times, could not stand. The first Miami pioneers were 2 Live Crew and DJ Magic Mike - they pushed this style into a characterful and obsessed audience, and the Detroit pioneers were DJ Assault, DJ Godfather and DJ Bone who mixed all of the above with Techno to create an extremely fast, on the tempo, music. Bass Music even entered many dance charts in the early 90s. Bands like 95 South's and 69 Boyz' and their songs "Whoot (There It Is)" and "Tootsee Roll" not only charted, but were also certified Multi-Platinum.

Blues (English blues from blue devils - melancholy, despondency) is a single blues composition or genre of music that became widespread in the 20s of the XX century. It is one of the achievements of African American culture. It was formed from such ethnic musical directions of the black African American society as “work song” (eng. Work song), “spirituals” (eng. Spirituals) and cholera (eng. Holler). In many ways, he influenced modern popular music, especially such genres as “Pop” (English Popular music), “Jazz” (English Jazz), “Rock’n’roll” (English Rock’n’roll). The predominant form of blues is ¾, where the first 4 measures are often played on the tonic harmony, 2 each on the subdominant and tonic, and 2 each on the dominant and tonic. A characteristic feature of the blues are "blue notes". Often music is built according to the “question-answer” structure, expressed both in the lyrical content of the composition, and in the musical content, often built on the dialogue of the instruments among themselves. Blues is an improvisational form of a musical genre, where compositions often use only the main supporting “frame”, which is beaten by solo instruments. The original blues theme is built on the sensual social component of the life of the African American population, its difficulties and obstacles that arise in the way of every black person.

Breaks Despite its "black" roots, by the beginning of the nineties, House music had become very rhythmically simplified and lost the original energy of the Negro ghetto. It was then that Breaks appeared, which used the sound of hip-hop, reggae, less often raga.

Breakbeat - (“broken” beat) style, or to be more precise, a whole direction, was formed in the early 90s, stylistically finally formed in 1994. Great Britain is considered to be the place of his birth, and the main cities where this style was initially most widespread are London and Bristol. The name of the style fully reflects its essence: no directness and tenderness. Often the term “breakbeat” refers to very specific aggressive music at a tempo of about 130-140 bpm, with a dense guitar sound, with clear drum accents on beats 2 and 4 and fuss in the 3rd area. The main criterion for defining a “breakbeat” is clean, almost untreated drums and percussion (with the exception of compression) and a standard 4/4 rhythm. The purposefulness of the sound is emphasized by tangible bass lines, using analog devices like the “Roland TB-303″. Sometimes, for final pathos, they use wind instruments or a symphony orchestra.

Chillout (from English Chillout, Chill out music) is a style of electronic music whose name comes from the English slang word meaning "relaxation".

Originating in the early 1990s, the then chill-out was relatively seasoned and slow. During this time, several seminal albums were released with the prefix "Chill Out" in the title. These albums were also closely associated with downtempo, trip-hop, slower versions of house music, nu-jazz, psybient and lounge music. This musical style has also been influenced by trance, ambient, and the creative dance music (IDM) style. The term "chill out" is mainly used to describe tonal, "relaxing" music, or at least not as intense as the aforementioned predecessors. It is wrong to attribute various kinds of hypnotic rhythms to chill-out. Sometimes the name "soft techno" is used instead of chill-out.
AT recent times Chill-out became popular among progressive trance and progressive house musicians, making their work more diverse. Therefore, sometimes this genre is called Ibiza Trance / Balearic House - after the island of Ibiza, as well as Goa-trance after the name of Goa, India. This music reflects the atmosphere of the island of Ibiza, and, as fans of the genre say, listening to this euphoric and spiritually uplifting music, you can vividly imagine a Mediterranean sunset. This effect is achieved through the use of synthesized sounds. string instruments, wave sounds, mandolins and guitars, as well as whispery vocals.
A chill-out is also called a separate dance floor at fairly large concerts (parties) in the style of Goa-trance and its derivatives, or in general a recreation area in dance clubs. Relaxing music of the aforementioned styles is usually played in the chill-out, dancing on the main dance floor comes there to relax. The largest psy-events are also equipped with a special "dark" dance floor, where they play dark psytrance - a kind of opposite to chill-out.

Music (from other Greek μουσική - the art of muses) - the art of intonation; musical composition. Artistic activity in music is aimed at sound material (musical sound) - individual sounds or sound complexes (harmonic sequences, rhythmic figures, melodic intervals, modes, keys, sonorous effects, etc.), organized in pitch, temporal, timbre, loudness and other relations in order to embody a special figurative thought that associates the states and processes of the external world, the internal experiences of a person with auditory impressions (an artistic image).

Rock music is a generic name for many areas of music that have existed since the mid-1950s. The word "rock" - to swing - in this case indicates the rhythmic sensations characteristic of these directions associated with a certain form of movement, by analogy with "roll", "twist", "swing", "shake", etc. Such signs rock music, as the use of electric musical instruments, creative self-sufficiency (for rock musicians, it is typical to perform compositions of their own composition) are secondary and often misleading. For this reason, the affiliation of some styles of music with rock is disputed. Rock is also a special subcultural phenomenon; subcultures such as mods, hippies, punks, metalheads, goths are inextricably linked to certain genres of rock music.

Rock music has a large number of directions: from light genres such as danceable rock and roll, pop rock, Britpop to brutal and aggressive genres such as death metal and grind. The content of the songs ranges from light and laid-back to dark, deep and philosophical. Often rock music is opposed to pop music and the so-called. "pop", although there is no clear boundary between the concepts of "rock" and "pop", and many musical phenomena balance on the verge between them.

The origins of rock music lie in the blues, from which the first rock genres came out - rock and roll and rockabilly. The first subgenres of rock music arose in close connection with the folk and pop music of that time - primarily folk, country, skiffle, music hall. During its existence, there have been attempts to combine rock music with almost all possible types of music - with academic music (art rock, appears in the late 60s), jazz (jazz rock, appears in the late 60s - early 70s ), Latin music (Latin rock, appears in the late 60s), Indian music (raga rock, appears in the mid 60s). In the 60s and 70s, almost all the major subgenres of rock music appeared, the largest of which, in addition to those listed, are hard rock, punk rock, and avant-garde rock. In the late 70s and early 80s, such genres of rock music appeared as post-punk, new wave, alternative rock, wheat rock (although early representatives of this direction appeared already in the late 60s), hardcore (a major subgenre punk rock), as well as brutal subgenres of metal - death metal, black metal. In the 90s, the genres of grunge (appeared in the mid-80s), Britpop (appeared in the mid-60s), alternative metal (appeared in the late 80s) were widely developed.
The main centers for the development of rock music are the USA and Western Europe (especially Great Britain). Most of the lyrics are English language. However, although, as a rule, with some delay, national rock music appeared in almost all countries. Russian-language rock music (the so-called Russian rock) appeared in the USSR already in the 1960s and 1970s. and reached its peak in the 1980s, continuing to develop in the 1990s.

Club/Dance music is included in many other styles from Disco to Hip-Hop. There are many different dances in history that are performed to various dance music, including Club / Dance. Club/Dance music became a style in its own right in the mid-70s when Soul evolved into Disco and whole clubs were devoted to dancing. In the years 75-77, dance clubs played only Disco, but by the end of the decade, it changed and moved into other style forms. All these forms were collected under one term “Club / Dance”, Dance-Pop, Hip-Hop, House and Techno and many other styles fell under this comb. Together, these styles were connected and connected by only one thing - rhythm - in every dance style, rhythm remains the most important condition.

Club House this offshoot came in the early 90s when a wave of commercial music swept over Europe. Just as in the 80's disco was called quintessentially club music, in the 90's a movement emerged whose sole purpose was to make people dance. To put it simply, the basis remained house, however, all dissonant melodic combinations were removed, the vocals became more “sweet”, syncopations that were “difficult” for the perception of an ordinary listener were also discarded. The result is unpretentious and accessible music with an unpretentious rhythm and simple arrangement. Some varieties of this music are also called handbag (the name comes from a kind of dance that little girls perform on the dance floor). The most interesting form of club house is Mellow House, which uses pure relaxation beats and appropriate sounds.

Hip Hop/Trip Hop

In the terminology of Rap music, Hip-Hop is usually referred to as a culture - painting on the walls of houses, dancing breakdance and spinning "vinyl" in addition to rap rhymes - surrounding the music. As a musical style, however, Hip-Hop refers to the type of music that is created by taking all of these attributes into account. Since the trend has been around long enough in the music scene to have a history of its development, Hip-Hop teams began to look back at the work of such old-school masters as MCs Kurtis Blow and Whodini, as well as DJs Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa. In fact, the last surge of popularity (Zulu Nation) occurred in the late 80s around two of the most famous Hip-Hop artists - De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest. In the 90s, when there was a real breakthrough in Rap music, dozens of Hip-Hop musicians began to return to the origins of the old school ("old school"), including such underground rappers as Mos Def and Pharoahe Monch.

At its core, Hip-Hop is a rhythmic accompaniment to rap texts, performed in a rather unhurried manner. It has a minimalist approach to the use of samples, loops and characteristic turntable playing. The main load falls on the bass and on the dense sound of the drums. Bands such as Public Enemy and others used Hip-Hop rhythms, adding social rap lyrics to them.

Another member of a long line of trends clinging to UK dance culture in the post-acid house phase and rapidly changing the ever-experimenting underground. Trip-Hop was created by British music publications to characterize the new style of downtempo, jazz, funk and experimental breakbeat music that began to emerge in 1993. featuring record labels such as Mo'Wax, Ninja Tune, Cup of Tea and Wall of Sound. Similar (though mostly without vocals) to American hip-hop in its use of sampled drum breaks, this style was a more experimental phenomenon, inspired by a lot of ambient elements and a psychotropic atmosphere. So the term “trip” quickly took root and was used to describe everything from Portishead and Tricky to DJ Shadow and U.N.K.L.E., Coldcut, Wagon Christ and Depth Charge, much to the dismay of many of these musicians who saw their music as pushing the boundaries of conventional hip- hop and not its new offshoot used to create hype. One of the first commercially viable dance music-based hybrids, the trip-hop full length albums became consistent top performers on the alternative charts in the UK, and are considered by musicians such as Shadow, Tricky, Morcheeba, the Sneaker Pimps and Massive Attack to be the style brought much of the first-wave electronica music into America.

D'n'B Intelligence

DRUM'N'BASS is one of the embodiments of the "breakbeat" concept. Formed by the beginning of the 90s as a style that combines a bass line at 80 bpm and an abundance of various drums at 160 bpm. Nothing else. Due to the temperament of the drums, this style is perceived as a dance style, due to the slower (often with a reggae character) bass line, it can be perceived as relaxing music. Gradually, beautiful, sometimes melancholic melodies began to be added to this style. In short, by the mid-90s, “Drum’n’bass” slowly but surely transformed into an intelligent jungle.
INTELLIGENT - music with this characteristic is intended more for listening and relaxing pastime than for use at parties, especially as a dance floor decoration. There are intelligent variants of "jungle", "techno". Compared to pure styles, their reasonable versions are more melodic, atmospheric, and you can trace the theme, often very pretty.

Disco (Eng. Disco, lit. "disco") is a genre of dance music that emerged in the early 1970s. Disco was being developed almost simultaneously in the US and Europe. American disco is characterized by a sound close to funk and soul. European disco was closely intertwined with traditional pop and general trends pop music. One of the first disco hits in Europe was Dalida's "J'attendrai" (1975). In the United States, the style's first hits are Hughes Corporation's "Rock The Boat" (U.S. No. 1 hit of the year), George McCrae's "Rock You Baby" and the Love Unlimited Orchestra's "Love's Theme" (theme from "Heat") in 1974. The general formula of a disco composition is as follows: a dance rhythm at a tempo of about 120 beats per minute and "live" melodies, often heavily orchestrated.

Downtempo (English downtempo - low tempo) or downbeat (downbeat) - a style in modern electronic music. Music is characterized by a slow rhythm, most often broken. Close to trip-hop, but less pressing and depressing. Close to ambient, but has a rhythmic structure, often consisting of loops that have a "hypnotic" effect. Distinguished by a constant desire for innovation.

Easy Listening (Easy Listening) is not a special direction in music, but the attitude of listeners towards it. But anyway, in this article we will call Easy Listening a certain style. Easy Listening - music that is easily perceived and does not require much understanding of the rhythm and melody. The history of this style dates back to the 50s, when the famous musician Henry Manchini wrote the soundtrack for the first episodes of the Pink Panther cartoon and many films of the 50s and 60s. The press has since begun to show hysterical interest in this direction. The biggest record labels are flooding Easy Listening musicians with offers to release their albums. In addition, various companies are also reissuing classics in the style of Easy Listening. Now we can hear this music in soundtracks for various films such as “From Dusk Till Dawn”, “Pulp Fiction”, “Four Rooms”, “Generation X”, “ Romeo + (and) Juliet”, etc.

Electroclash is a genre of popular music that combines elements of new wave, punk and dance electronics. Electroclash musicians use: sound traditions of the 80s (synthesizers, often early analog, drum machines), retro sound, musical minimalism, combining this with visual images of the 70-80s, vintage disco and punk aesthetics. Prototypes of the electroclash aesthetic can be seen in the cult film Liquid Sky. One of the founders of electroclash is Suicide. Electroclash gained popularity in the late 90s in New York and Detroit. The official birthplace is considered to be the Lacks club in Williamsburg, where Larry T, the man who coined the word "electroclash" and owns the rights to it, threw parties. The origins of the name are at the junction of influences experienced by a number of European and American bands working in this vein. Lyrics mostly borrow from punk themes, are often aggressive and focus more on emotion than technique.

Electronic - School of Music focused primarily on the study and application of the possibilities of sound synthesis, the creation of completely new, previously unheard, artificial timbres. Historically, the ground for the emergence of electronic music was prepared by the development of sonoristic interpretation of sound in the works of composers of the first half of the 20th century. Electronic music originated in Germany and first made itself known in 1951, when at the Summer Courses in Contemporary Music in Darmstadt, W. Mayer-Eppler demonstrated an example of montage of “electrosounds”. The largest representatives electronic school - the Germans Herbert Eimert, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Hans Werner Henze, the French Henri Pousseur, Pierre Boulez, the Italians Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio, the Japanese Toshiro Mayuzumi and others.

Representatives of the electronic school operate with sound at the level of its ancestral basis - that is, the overtone series. The achievements of the electronic school have greatly influenced pop, rock and modern dance music.

Folktronica or Electrofolk is a genre of music that includes various elements of folk music and electronics. The term folktronica, which from now on "brands" electronic music with elements of ambient, folk, jazz, classical and hip-hop, in the creation of which mainly analog synthesizers are used.

Funk (English funk) is one of the fundamental currents of African American music. The term denotes a musical direction, along with soul that makes up rhythm and blues, as well as a dance style to this music. The formation of funk began in the 60s in opposition to the growing commercialization of rhythm and blues. The founders of the style were James Brown and George Clinton. The name of the style comes from the word "funky", which in jazz jargon means "a bizarre, intricate manner of performance."

Funk is primarily dance music, which defines it musical features: the ultimate syncopation of the parts of all instruments (a syncopated bass is called "funky"), a pulsating rhythm, screaming vocals, repeated repetition of short melodic phrases. Larry Graham is often credited with inventing the "bass percussion technique" of slapping, which has become a hallmark of funk. Guitarists in funk bands play in a rhythmic style, often using a wah-wah sound effect. "Dead" or muted notes are used in riffs to enhance percussive elements. Jimi Hendrix was the pioneer of funk rock. The follower of funk in the new century was the synth-funk style.

In fact, Fusion (from the English “fusion”, “fusion”) is a fusion of two or more musical styles (for example, English Art-rock, in which elements of classical music and rock arrangements of instrumental parts are “fused”). However, most of the bands that are classified as Fusion players play a fusion of jazz and rock, pioneered by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, who was the first to use electric instruments and rock rhythms in long jazz improvisations in the mid-60s. Numerous followers of Davis - John McLaughlin, Tony Williams, Billy Cobham, Chick Corea, Joseph Zawinul and Wayne Shorter - somewhat modified the "fusion" of jazz and rock, shifting the emphasis to rock, which ensured success in the youth audience. Complex piano and guitar chords, virtuoso instrumental solos have become characteristic of this direction. In the late 70s, jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, known as a free jazz virtuoso, made Jazz-rock Fusion more powerful, dynamic and called his version “harmonic Fusion”.

Pop (Eng. Pop-music from Popular music) - the direction of modern music, a type of modern mass culture. This is not just popular music, but also based on traditional pop rhythms for the Western world. In various regions of the world, it is based on Western pop rhythms, but only with separate elements of regional varieties of local traditional music. Pop music can mimic various musical styles that are most popular at the moment, but the rhythmic basis does not change much. Therefore, pop music has little effect on music of different genres and styles.

This style appeared in the mid-80s in Chicago. In the era of disco reigning supreme, this style was very pretentious and, of course, trendy in very narrow progressive circles. The house style was created exclusively for dancing and was created exclusively with the help of electronic musical instruments, drum machines and synthesizers. There are several versions of the origin of the name of this style. One of them says that the House was named after the Warehouse club, where local DJs first started mixing Kraftwerk music with straight beats made on a drum machine. House music has changed a lot since then, in the 90s it became the most relevant and fashionable, dozens of new styles were born on the basis of house, and house compositions took their leading places in the charts. House is undoubtedly the main style of the 90s. You don't need to explain what house sounds like. House music is not very fast, about 130-140BPM, accompanied by an absolutely direct beat (clap or snare is applied to every second kick), a hat sounds on every sixteenth beat. That's the whole house. Modern house went back to its roots and began to use a lot of disco elements, so that at the end of the nineties there was a real revival of this style. However, it became not too solemn due to the fact that hip-hop has finally taken root in pop culture, and house now belongs to the style of the last century.

A complex term meant to refer to electronic music from the 90s that can be used equally well on the dance floor and at home. Over time, the IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) style has largely gained negative notoriety among dance musicians and fans who have been driven by the mere question of whether they are playing nonsensical dance music or not. Originating in the late 80's, this sound has grown from a combination of heavy dance, mostly from rave parties and large scale club events, plus downtempo. DJs such as Mixmaster Morris and Dr. Alex Paterson combined soft synth pop/new wave Chicago house with ambient, encouraging a new wave of musicians inspired by a wide variety of musical sources. (During these years, many DJs and musicians also protested against the growing chart orientation of British dance music, exemplified by the new hits "Pump Up the Jam" from the Technotronic team and "Sesame's Treat" from Smart E's.) The record company Sheffield's Warp Records worked with the best representatives of this In fact, Warp's prolific compilation called Artificial Intelligence introduced listeners around the world to half a dozen of the genre's main artists: Aphex Twin, the Orb, Plastikman, Autechre, Black Dog Productions and B12. Other major record labels Rising High, GPR, R&S, Rephlex, Fat Cat, Astralwerks were also making quality IDM releases, although by the mid-90s the majority of electronica music recorded for listeners pushed studios towards further experimentation and beat orientation. In the absence of a central, commercial scene, North America became the most fertile and hospitable ground for IDM, and by the end of the 90s, dozens of established studios opened their doors to work with musicians in this style, including Beat, Isophlux, Suction, Schematic and Cytrax. Despite frequent attempts to rename the style (Warp suggested the term "electronic listening music" and Aphex Twin settled on "braindance"), the IDM style remained real way for fans to voice their usually confusing preferences.

"Independent" rock. Usually, the definition of “indie bands” (and, accordingly, “indie rock”) includes groups and performers who work outside the sphere of interests of large record companies and record on so-called “indie” or “independent” companies. Often the "independence" of these firms means low budget, even more often - the desire to play and promote music that interests a very limited circle of listeners, that is, commercially unpromising. The English and American music press tend to view indie rock as the art of snobbery, although in some cases "independent" bands create really talented works for which the general public is not sufficiently prepared. As a rule, the style of indie bands has nothing to do with their “independence” – it can be hard rock bands or psychedelic bands, the main thing that unites them is the desire for some kind of artistic integrity and a declaration about the “non-sale of art”. Since the early 90s, the concepts of "indie" and "alternative rock" have become synonymous. Typical representatives: Nirvana, Jesus Lizard, Porno For Pyros, Sonic Youth, etc.

A culture conceived and created as anti-music did not last long. The music of noises really began to be perceived as music, it is quite sold-bought and “caresses” the ears of hundreds of people around the world. This certainly has something to do with the world of electronic music, if only because Kraftwerk themselves stood at the origins of all this.
Industrial styles are distinguished into: Percussion Industrial, Improve Industrial, Industrial Noise, Musique Concrete, Electro Body Music, Aggro-industrial and Darkwave.

This dissonant, sharp sounding music emerged from the experiments with electronics and sound recording of such mid-70s bands as Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle (the label name of the second of them - Industrial Records - gave the name to the new style). This music was full of electronics, distortion and was too avant-garde for the rock of that period. After these initial designs, Industrial Dance groups such as Ministry, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, Skinny Puppy emerged in the mid-80s. Over the next decade, Industrial became heavy metal, with artists such as Nine Inch Nails, White Zombie, Marilyn Manson gaining widespread popularity.

Jazz (eng. Jazz) is a form of musical art that arose in the early 20th century in the United States as a result of a synthesis of African and European cultures and subsequently became widespread. characteristic features The musical language of jazz was originally improvisation, polyrhythm based on syncopated rhythms, and a unique set of techniques for performing rhythmic texture - swing. Further development jazz was due to the development jazz musicians and composers of new rhythmic and harmonic models.

Latin (Spanish música latinoamericana) is a generalized name for the musical styles and genres of Latin American countries, as well as the music of people from these countries who compactly live in other states and form large Latin American communities (for example, in the USA). AT colloquial speech the abbreviated name "Latin music" (Spanish música latina) is often used.
Latin American music, whose role in Everyday life Latin America is very high, it is a fusion of many musical cultures, but it is based on three components: Spanish (or Portuguese), African and Indian musical cultures. As a rule, Latin American songs are performed in Spanish or Portuguese, less often in French. Latin American performers living in the US are usually bilingual and often use English lyrics.

Spanish and Portuguese music does not belong to Latin American, being, however, closely related to the latter with a large number of connections; moreover, the influence of Spanish and Portuguese music on Latin American is mutual.

Lo-Fi (eng. Lo-fi) - a direction in music, which is characterized by low quality sound recording. Many lo-fi bands record their music on cheap cassette recorders. This is a peculiar form of protest, which is inherent in alternative rock. The lo-fi movement began a long time ago. All early rock and roll records (Buddy Holly, The Beach Boys, Beatles), garage rock of the 1960s, The Velvet Underground albums, punk rock of the late 1970s can be attributed to lo-fi. However, as a separate genre, lo-fi stood out in the alternative rock of the 1980s. The indie rockers of the time preferred to record on non-professional four-track tape recorders. Lo-fi did not become widely known until the 1990s with bands such as Beck, Sebadoh and Pavement. Today, many release groups of the mp3 scene use the term Lo-Fi, placing it in the ID3 tags of the music genre, to indicate that this or that mp3 release belongs to the style of quiet, calm and beautiful music with a slow rhythm: chill out, lounge, downtempo, trip hop, acid jazz, etc.

Lounge (also lounge) (English lounge music) - a term in popular music to refer to light, background music, which originally often sounded in the halls (hence the name - English lounge - hall, living room, salon) of hotels, shops, cafes , in elevators. In contrast to the more general term "light music", the lounge is characterized by a greater jazz influence, intimacy and improvisation. Although there is music specifically recorded for this purpose, the term "lounge" encompasses a wide range of performers of various genres - from jazz, bossa nova to electronica. A common characteristic are light, soothing compositions. Literally, any musician who plays for the public at restaurants and shops can be considered a lounge performer. Lounge music is associated with parties with an indispensable martini. In the US music industry, so-called bachelor lounge music intersects with the lounge, another format notable for the presence of experimental kitsch performers.

There is often an opinion that noise is practically the same as Dark Ambient, and this is probably correct. Just like ambient, pure noise is characterized by the absence of a clearly defined melody and rhythm, but it is distinguished by a greater heaviness and gloom of sound and, as a rule, a very dirty sound. Noise is characterized by industrial noises and playing on random coincidences of sounds. There are also such areas as rhytm & noise (the term Power Electronics is also sometimes used), i.e. rhythmic noise (Master/Slave Relationship, Hunting Lodge, Esplendor Geometrico, P.A.L., Blackhouse, Allerseelen) and japanoise (Aube, Merzbow, Masonna), i.e. Japanese noise, the most radical form of noise, the compositions of which, as a rule, are monotonous aggressive noises.

The history of Goa style is quite intricate. A few decades ago, this term was used to refer to the style of music performed in Goa, India. European musicians, inspired by Indian philosophy, culture and aesthetics, tried to express their feelings in music and called the style Goa as well. Gradually, the concept of Goa-Trance was somewhat blurred, many musicians, who took Goa-trance tracks made by the followers of Indian culture as a standard, began to sculpt their own creations, not an inch trying to delve into the roots of real Goa music. Goa-trance began to call music produced by anyone. Gradually, styles nevertheless separated from all this pseudo-Goa music, a separate layer was singled out called Psychedelic Trance. The origin of Psychedelic Trance is the British Isles, later this style spread to Germany, Holland, Denmark and other countries of Western Europe. What is Goa Trans? This is a soft style. There is no hard beat here. The basis of Goa is melody and harmony. Psychedelic also includes intricate synth lines, transforming, sometimes sharp and bright, sounds associated with hi-tech/space style. Both styles do not have heavy bass, although there are additions of pulsating ultra-low bass. You can meditate to this music, you can dance, you can think. Goa/Psychedelic Trance is not a pure dance style, it's a complex compilation of different styles and concepts, esoteric. Traditional Indian instruments such as the sitar and sador (or their electronic counterparts) were often used to create music, combined with the powerful, hypnotic synth that trance has always been famous for. This style is much less suitable for DJ work and vinyl records than other electronic dance styles (DAT was often used instead of vinyl). Therefore, the Goa style until the end of the 90s had a relatively small number of DJs who promoted it around the world. Record labels such as Dragonfly, Blue Room Released, Flying Rhino, Platipus and Paul Oakenfold's Perfecto Fluoro have been an important source of new musical material. The most popular English DJ Oakenfold has finally provided Goa trance a large number fans, which have been lacking for several years. He promoted this music on the radio and in clubs across the country. In Britain (Return to the Source) Goa trance was also well received, the studio released three collections of the best trance music. Labels: Perfecto Fluoro, Tip Records, Symbiosis Records, Flying Rhino, Blue Room, Transient.

Rap (English rap, rapping) is a rhythmic recitative, usually read to music with a heavy beat. A rap artist is called a rapper, or by the more general term MC.

Rap is one of the main elements of the hip hop music style; often used as a synonym for hip-hop. However, rap is used not only in hip-hop music, but also in other genres. Many performers drum and bass use rap. In rock music, it is found in genres such as rapcore, nu metal, alternative rock, and alternative rap. Pop musicians and contemporary RnB artists also often use rap in their compositions.
The word "rap" comes from the English rap - knock, blow (a hint at the rhythm of rap). To rap also means "to speak", "to speak".
Later, erroneous backronym theories arose, according to which the word rap is supposedly an abbreviation. Transcripts such as "Rhythm and Poetry" (Rhythm and Poetry), "Rhytmic African Poetry" (Rhythmic African poetry), or "Radical ameriсan Poetry" (Radical American poetry), etc. were called, etc. Rap ​​first appeared in the 1970s years among the African Americans of the Bronx, where he was "exported" by visiting Jamaican DJs. Initially, they read rap not for commercial purposes, but for pleasure, and at first they did it mainly by DJs. These were uncomplicated rhyming couplets addressed to the audience. The performance of rhyming chants right on the streets to this day remains a tradition of black neighborhoods. In addition, so-called. "battles" - verbal duels in which two rappers quarreled, keeping the rhyme and rhythm. Battles can be not only swearing, it can be the supply of a rhymed text on a specific topic.

The genre and culture of hip hop, of which rap is a major part, reached its peak of popularity in the 1990s. Rap has also had a major impact on R'n'B music.

R&B - (Rhythm and blues), a blues vocal-instrumental style of Negro music of the 1930s, which arose under the influence of swing. Subsequently commercialized. It is considered one of the earliest forms of Negro rock music. Its commercial modifications, created by white musicians, include "rock and roll" and "twist".

Reggae music was born in Jamaica in the early 60s, its origins and tributaries are numerous: Ska, Rock-Steady, calypso (music of Trinidad and Tobago), Zouk (music of the Antilles), Soul and, of course, Jazz. In the middle of our century, the Caribbean musical styles Ska and calypso became fashionable among the British colonists in Jamaica, spread throughout the New World and became popular among Europeans. In Jamaica, turbulent socio-political events were taking place at this time, and it was time for music to reflect the social context. Black Jamaicans needed a sound that would convey exclusively their mood and attitude to what is happening in their lives. New music sounded from the "unemployed street". It was a slow mix of Ska and Rock-Steady with a boosted bass line. The centers of communication for young people of both sexes was the “disco” - Dance hall or dances, and all kinds of “strain” in the crowded city crowd of lumpen constantly took place at “dances”. Then, in one of the first songs of Bob Marley, the “rude boys” were asked to “cool off” - the songs acquired social meaning. The arrival in Jamaica in 1966 of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I caused an extraordinary spiritual uplift among the majority of Jamaicans. For Rastafarians, this was an event of exceptional importance. With his name and faith in the Lord, all the best in reggae is ennobled. When good dance music lay down soulful words, hymns were born. Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bani Wailer are guitar-wielding revolutionaries whose call is an uprising of the spirit, through the realization of His reality, and also through the intention to throw off the shackles of the slavish habit of following the ways of Babylon. Their global message to all the oppressed found a global response: “Get up! Arise! Rise up for your rights!” It is clear that having received the opportunity to record and publish their own music, the Africans turned to their tradition and found there a sound that is called: “roots” and gave out “to the mountain” musical products under the general name: “reggae”. It must be said that the Rastafarai movement is developing independently of reggae, but many musicians praise the Almighty in their songs.

Tango (Spanish tango) - 1. Old Spanish folk dance. Pair ballroom dance of free composition, characterized by an energetic and clear rhythm. 2. Music for such a dance. Initially, it was developed and distributed in Argentina and Uruguay, then it became popular all over the world. Previously, tango was known as tango criollo, or simply tango. There are many dance styles of tango today, including Argentine tango, Uruguayan tango, ballroom tango (American and international style), Finnish tango, and old tango. Argentine tango is often regarded as the "authentic" tango because it is closer to that originally danced in Argentina and Uruguay.
Music and dance elements of tango are popular in activities related to dance, gymnastics, figure skating, synchronized swimming, etc.

Techno originates from the electronic house music developed in Detroit in the mid 80s. Where house still has a clear connection to disco, even when the style was purely mechanical, techno has always referred to strictly electronic music designed specifically for a certain small audience. Early techno musicians and DJs Kevin Saunderson, Juan Atkins and Derrick May focused on the electronic, synthesized beats of electro-funk artists such as Afrika Bambaataa and synth-rock artists such as Kraftwerk. In the US, techno was only an underground phenomenon, but in the UK it broke into the country's mainstream music scene in the late 80s. In the early 90s, techno began to split into many sub-genres, including hardcore, ambient, and jungle. In the style of hardcore techno, the beats per minute of each track have been increased to ridiculous and dance-impossible levels in order to chill and alienate the masses of fans. In the case of the Ambient style, everything happened the other way around - there was a decrease in rhythm and the appearance of spatial electronic textures; it was used as relaxing music when ravers and club youth needed a break from acid house and hardcore techno. Jungle was almost as aggressive as hardcore, combining energetic techno beats with breakbeats and dance reggae. All sub-genres of techno were originally intended to be used in clubs where they were mixed by DJs. As a result, most of the music was available on 12" singles or compilations by various musicians, where the songs were quite long, which gave the DJ a lot of mix material. In the mid 90's, a new type of techno musician emerged, mostly ambient artists like the Orb and Aphex Twin, but also heavier styles like the Prodigy and Goldie, they started making albums with compositions that did not contain raw material for DJ mixes. It is not surprising that these musicians, especially the Prodigy, became the stars of the world techno.

This style broke free in the early 90s, leaving German techno and hardcore behind. Trance is based on endless repetitions of short synth samples throughout the track, while allowing minimal changes in the rhythm and frequency response of the synth to be able to distinguish songs. The effect of such music is that the listeners are plunged into a state of trance, similar to religious. Despite the decline in interest in music in the mid-90s, trance returned again, but towards the end of the century, displacing the house style from the world music arena as the most popular style alternative dance music. Influenced by acid house and Detroit techno, the development of trance coincided with the opening of R&S Records (Ghent, Belgium) and Harthouse/Eye Q Records (Frankfurt, Germany). R&S defined the format with singles such as "Energy Flash" (Joey Beltram), "The Ravesignal" (CJ Bolland) and other compositions from Robert Leiner, Sun Electric and Aphex Twin. The Harthouse studio was opened in 1992 by Sven Vath with Heinz Roth & Matthias Hoffman. She has had a significant impact on the trance sound itself, with compositions from Hardfloor ("Hardtrance Acperience") and Vath's own composition ("L'Esperanza"), plus releases from Arpeggiators, Spicelab and Barbarella. Musicians such as Sven Vath, Bolland, Leiner and many others began to play music in full (without cuts), although this did not make much of a turn in world music. Despite a long period of formation and development, the trance style completely disappeared from the world stage, completing its influence on British musical culture in the late 90s, it was replaced by breakbeat dance (trip-hop and jungle). The classic German sound did make some changes, so the term “progressive” trance appeared, used to describe the influence from the softer forms of house and Euro dance. By 1998, most famous DJs such as Paul Oakenfold, Pete Tong, Tony De Vit, Danny Rampling, Sasha, Judge Jules were playing trance in the most prestigious British clubs. Even the US has taken notice (finally) of this style, led by great DJs including Christopher Lawrence and Kimball Collins.

In the beginning there was a beat... Before any music there was a rhythm. Our distant ancestor millions of years ago beat a stump with a stick - and enjoyed it. Quite aesthetic, no less refined than the one experienced by our contemporary, sitting in an easy chair at the conservatory. There was no talk about any music, and even more so about the styles of music, at that time. They say that our predecessors did not even have abstract thinking that would help them call sounds and vibrations music, and even divide it into styles ... Time has passed. A lot of time has passed ... And now, from an impulsive and unstructured knock on a stump, music was born. Which of the readers of the Subculture Portal has heard of such a wonderful style of music as Azerbaijani jazz? Surprised?? And he is!

Well, let's get to the exotic. In the meantime, our experts are ready to tell you about such performers of music styles as punk rock, metal in all its versatility, rap and trap (whatever that means) and djent (the product of intercourse between man and machine). If yesterday you heard the term "cyber-core" from someone, know that you were deceived. There is no such style! But it may very well be that on the pages of the "Subculture Portal" you will find a story about him. And right now, the experts of the "Subculture Portal" are digging up information about such outlandish performers of music genres as witchhouse and electroclash especially for you ...
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Music genres(genres of music) - list and short description musical genres and directions.

Music genres

1. Folk music - music of various peoples of the world.

2. Latin American music- a generalized name for the musical genres and styles of Latin American countries.

3. Indian classical music- the music of the Indian people, one of the most ancient genres of music. It takes its origins from the religious practices of Hinduism.

4. European music- a generalized concept that characterizes the music of European countries.

5. Pop music Disco (from the word "disco") is a genre of dance music that originated in the early 1970s. Pop (from the word "popular") is a type of mass musical culture. Light music (from “easy listening” - “easy to listen to”) - music that covers different styles, the common thing in such music is simple, catchy melodies. The singer who performs music in the genre of Pop - Madonna.

6. Rock music - the generalized name of the direction of music, the word "rock" means - "swing, rocking" and indicates the rhythm of the music.

country rock - a genre that combines country and rock, and became part of rock and roll after Elvis Presley performed at the 1955 Grand Ole Opry.

southern rock - "southern" rock, was popular in the USA in 1970.

heartland rock - "rock from the outback", founded in 1980 on "country" and "blues".

garage rock - founded in the United States of America and Canada in 1960, the forerunner of "punk rock".

surf rock - (from the English "surf") - American beach music, was popular in the early 60s.

instrumental rock - this is a genre of rock music, the music of this genre is dominated by music, not vocals, was popular in the 1950s and 1960s.

folk rock - a genre that combines elements of folk and rock, was formed in the UK and the USA in the mid-1960s.

blues rock - a hybrid genre that combines elements of blues and rock and roll, began its development in England and the USA in 1960.

Rock'n'roll - (from the word "roll") the genre, born in the 1950s, in the United States, is an early stage in the development of rock music.

Merseybit - (the meaning of the genre comes from the name of the bands from Liverpool, which is located near the River Mersey)—the genre originated in the UK in the 1960s.

Psychedelic Rock - musical genre, it originated in Western Europe and California in the mid-60s, is associated with the concepts of "psychedelia" (hallucinogens).

progressive rock - a genre that is characterized by the complication of musical forms and the introduction of dialogue.

experimental rock - a style that is based on experiments with the sound of rock music, another name is avant-garde rock.

Glam rock - (from the word "spectacular" - "glamorous") - the genre originated in the UK in the 1970s.

pub rock - the forerunner of punk rock, a direction of music that arose in the 1970s as a protest of representatives British rock on the excessive purity of sound in American AOR and prog rock.

hardcore - the genre appeared in the UK and the USA in the late 1970s. The sound is faster and heavier than the traditional punk rock sound.

skiffle - singing with accompaniment. The instrumentation included a washboard, a harmonica, and a guitar as a rhythm instrument.

Hard rock - ("hard rock") - a genre that is characterized by the release of the sound of percussion instruments and bass guitar. The genre originated in the 1960s and took shape in the early 1970s.

Punk rock - a musical genre that was formed in the USA in the 1970s, a little later - in the UK. The meaning that early bands put into this genre is "the desire to play dominates the ability to play."

bard rock - a genre that appeared in the "Soviet Union" in the 1970s. Developed under the influence of poetry: Viktor Tsoi, Okudzhava.

J-rock ("Japanese rock") is the name for the various styles of rock music that originated in Japan.

Metal - a genre that was formed and hard rock in England and the United States, in the 1970s.

post-punk - a musical genre that was formed in the late 1970s in the UK. It was a continuation of punk rock and was distinguished by a variety of self-expression in music.

new wave - a direction that includes different genres of rock music, ideologically and stylistically broke with all previous rock genres. It emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

no wave - direction in cinema, music and performance art. Developed in New York in the late 1970s. This is a kind of response of free musicians and artists to the commercial "New Wave".

stoner rock is medium tempo or slow music with low frequency musical instruments such as bass and guitar.

The genre originated in the 1990s, based on the work of the Kyuss group.

Alternative rock - this term refers to various styles of rock music. Appeared in the 1980s and covers many styles and trends that originate in post-punk, punk rock and other styles and musical genres.

post-rock is an experimental musical genre of rock music. The genre is characterizedthe use of instruments that are usually used in rock music and chords that are not characteristic of rock (traditional).

7. Blues - a musical genre that originated at the end of the 19th century, in the Southeastern United States in the African American community, among the rebels of the Cotton Belt.

8. Jazz - a genre of music that arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States as a result of the synthesis of European and African cultures.

9. Country - (“country music”) is one of the most widespread varieties of North American music.

10. Chanson - (translated from French - chanson, which means song).

Has 2 meanings:

1. French cabaret song.

2. Soviet song in French, Renaissance and late Middle Ages.

The first composer and poet who performed songs in the chanson style was Guillaume de Machaux.

The peculiarity of the genre is that the performer, author of the song, music and words is one and the same person.

12. Romance - ("romance" means - "in Spanish") - a short poem that has a lyrical content, sung to the music. The term itself originated in medieval Spain and meant a Soviet song sung in Spanish.

13. Blatnaya song - a genre of a song in which it is sung about heavy morals and life in a criminal environment. Since the 1990s, the Russian music industry has called the thieves' song "Russian chanson", although it has nothing to do with chanson.

13. Electonic musicis a musical genre denoting music that has been created using electronic musical instruments. Often, various computer programs are used to create it.

14. Ska - a style that appeared in the late 1950s, in Jamaica.

The style is characterized by a 2 by 4 rhythm: when the bass guitar or double bass emphasizes odd drum beats, and the guitar emphasizes even ones.

15. Hip-hop - a genre of music that originated in New York, among the working class - on November 12, 1974. Hip-hop was founded by DJ Kevin Donovan.

This list includes only the most popular musical genres.

Currently, new musical genres (genres of music) and directions are constantly emerging.

Lady Gaga - Judas (combines electronic music and dance rhythms).

Continuing the series of articles on music theory, we would like to tell you about how genres in music were formed and developed. After this article, you will never again confuse a musical genre with a musical style.

So, first, let's look at how the concepts of “genre” and “style” differ. Genre- This is a type of work that has developed historically. It implies the form, content and purpose of music. Musical genres began their formation at an early stage in the development of music, in the primitive communities. Then music accompanied every step of human activity: life, work, speech, and so on. Thus, the main genre principles were formed, which we will analyze further.

Style means the sum of materials (harmony, melody, rhythm, polyphony), the way they were used in a piece of music. Usually the style is based on the trend of a certain era or is classified by composer. In other words, style is a set of means of musical expression that determines the image and idea of ​​music. It may depend on the individuality of the composer, his worldview and tastes, approach to music. Also, the style determines the currents in music, such as jazz, pop, rock, folk styles and so on.

Now back to genres of music. There are five main genre beginnings, which, as we said, originated in primitive communities:

• Motority
• Declamation
• chant
• signaling
• Sound imaging

It was they who became the basis of all subsequent genres that appeared with the development of music.

Quite soon after the formation of the main genre principles, the genre and style began to intertwine into a single system. Such genre and style systems were formed depending on the occasion for which the music was created. This is how genre-style systems appeared, which were used in certain ancient cults, for ancient rituals and in everyday life. The genre had a more applied character, which formed a certain image, style and compositional features of ancient music.

On the walls Egyptian pyramids and in the surviving ancient papyri, lines of ritual and religious hymns were found, which most often spoke about the ancient Egyptian gods.

It is believed that ancient music received its highest point of development in ancient Greece. It was in ancient Greek music that certain patterns were discovered on which its structure was based.

As society evolved, so did music. In medieval culture, new vocal and vocal instrumental genres. During this era, genres such as:

• Organum is the most early form polyphonic music in Europe. This genre was used in churches, and it flourished in the Paris school of Notre Dame.
• Opera is a musical and dramatic work.
• Choral - liturgical Catholic or Protestant singing.
• Motet is a vocal genre that was used both in church and at social events. His style depended on the text.
• Conduct is a medieval song, the text of which was most often spiritual and moralizing. Until now, they cannot accurately decipher the medieval notes of conducts, since they did not have a definite rhythm.
• Mass is a liturgical service in Catholic churches. Requiem is also included in this genre.
• Madrigal - small work on lyrical love themes. This genre originated in Italy.
• Chanson - this genre appeared in France, and initially choral peasant songs belonged to it.
• Pavane is a smooth dance that opened the holidays in Italy
• Galliard - a cheerful and rhythmic dance also comes from Italy
• Allemanda is a procession dance that originated in Germany.

AT XVII-XVIII For centuries, rural music - country music - has developed quite actively in North America. The genre has been heavily influenced by Irish and Scottish folk music. The lyrics of such songs often talked about love, rural life and cowboy life.

At the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, folklore developed quite actively in Latin America and Africa. In the African American community, the blues is born, which was originally a "work song" that accompanied work in the field. The blues was also based on ballads and religious chants. The blues formed the basis of a new genre - jazz, which is the result of a mixture of African and European cultures. Jazz has become quite widespread and universally recognized.

Based on jazz and blues, at the end of the 40s, rhythm and blues (R'n'B), a song and dance genre, appeared. He was quite popular among the youth. Subsequently, funk and soul appeared within this genre.

Curiously, along with these African-American genres, the genre of pop music appeared in the 1920s. The roots of this genre are found in folk music, street romances and ballads. Pop music has always mixed with other genres, forming quite interesting musical styles. In the 1970s, the “disco” style appeared within pop music, which became the most popular dance music at that time, relegating rock and roll to the background.

In the 50s, rock bursts into the ranks of already existing genres, the origins of which are in blues, folk and country. It quickly gained wild popularity and grew into many different styles, mixing with other genres.

Ten years later, the reggae genre was formed in Jamaica, which became widespread in the 70s. The basis of reggae is mento - a genre of Jamaican folk music.

In the 1970s, rap appeared, which was “exported” by Jamaican DJs to the Bronx. The founder of rap is DJ Kool Herc. Initially, rap was read for pleasure, to throw out their emotions. The basis of this genre is the beat that sets the rhythm for recitative.

In the second half of the 20th century, electronic music established itself as a genre. It is strange that it did not receive recognition at the beginning of the 20th century, when the first electronic instruments appeared. This genre involves the creation of music using electronic musical instruments, technology and computer programs.

Genres formed in the 20th century have many styles. For example:

Jazz:

• new orleans jazz
• Dixieland
• Swing
• Western swing
• Bop
• hard bop
• Boogie Woogie
• Cool or cool jazz
• modal or modal jazz
• avant-garde jazz
• soul jazz
• free jazz
• bossa nova or latin jazz
• Symphonic Jazz
• progressive
• Fusion or jazz rock
• electric jazz
• acid jazz
• crossover
• smooth jazz

• Cabaret
• minstrel show
• music hall
• Musical
• Ragtime
• lounge
• Classic crossover
• Psychedelic pop
• italo disco
• Eurodisco
• Hi-energy
• Nu-disco
• space disco
• Ye-ye
• K-pop
• europop
• Arabic pop music
• Russian pop music
• Rigsar
• Laika
• Latin American pop
• J-pop

• Rock'n'roll
• Big Beat
• rockabilly
• psychobilly
• neo-rocabilly
• skiffle
• doo wop
• Twist
• Alternative Rock (Indie Rock/College Rock)
• Mat rock
• Madchester
• grunge
• shoegazing
• Britpop
• noise rock
• noise pop
• Post-grunge
• lo-fi
• indie pop
• Twee pop
• Art rock (Progressive rock)
• jazz rock
• kraut rock
• garage rock
• Freakbeat
• Glam rock
• country rock
• Merseybit
• Metal (Hard rock)
• avant-garde metal
• Alternative metal
• black metal
• Melodic black metal
• Symphonic black metal
• true black metal
• viking metal
• gothic metal
• Doom metal
• death metal
• Melodic death metal
• Metalcore
• New metal
• power metal
• progressive metal
• speed metal
• stoner rock
• Thrash metal
• folk metal
• Heavy metal
• New wave
• Russian rock
• pub rock
• Punk rock
• ska punk
• pop punk
• crust punk
• hardcore
• crossover
• Riot folk
• pop rock
• Postpunk
• Gothic rock
• no wave
• Postrock
• Psychedelic rock
• soft rock
• folk rock
• techno rock

As you can see, there are many styles. For enumeration complete list It will take a lot of time, so we will not do this. The main thing is that you now know how modern popular genres appeared and you will definitely no longer confuse genre and style.

Each of us loves music in our own way. A large number of works of various genres are released monthly. Everyone downloads and listens to their favorite songs in different ways. Player, radio, TV, phone - all this and much more helps to play music.

Musical notes are with us both in reality and during sleep. Even the wind and the waves of the sea create their own sound that you want to listen to. There is a type of people who live only for music, they don't go anywhere without it. The other type, on the contrary, creates musical masterpieces.

Types and genres of music

Song types cannot be limited to a couple of categories. At a minimum, they are divided into:

• Russians.
• Foreign.
• Slow.
• Dance.
• Merry.
• Sad.

These groups can merge with each other. The types of Russian songs are different: it can be a cheerful dance composition or a slow and sad motive. Music is used to cheer up and dance, although not everyone uses it just for fun. Often a melody can cause a storm of emotions, up to tears.

Classification

Fans of listening to the new watch the release of albums of their favorite artists. Indeed, in our time, almost everyone can record their song, and the types of songs are different, one half of the audience likes it, the other does not approve and generally does not see talent in the performer. To better understand what types of songs and music are, you should pay attention to this list:

1. Classical music.
2. Pop music.
3. Hip-hop.
4. Electonic music.
5. Jazz.
6. Blues.

Fans of a particular genre sometimes get so sick of music that they form groups and go out to showdown. Hip-hop fans prefer to compete with each other using battles. In them they show their devotion to this style of music. Rockers are often seen sitting on bikes and drinking alcohol. Pop musicians - simple people, most often perform romantic types of songs that speak of love.

Classical, electra and jazz

Classical music was very popular a couple of decades ago, but even now it is not forgotten. There are not many real connoisseurs of this style who, at the opportunity, come to any corner of their country to attend a concert with live sound and hear the works of Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Bach and other great composers.

Electra music is played using a synthesizer, electric guitar. There are simply no sad motives in these melodies. Electronic reproduction and funny texts songs make the younger generation move rhythmically in the disco. AT modern world the first place is occupied by this style, which uses old-style songs performed in a youthful way.

Jazz and blues are very similar to each other, sometimes it is impossible to distinguish between them. Jazz is performed by a group of musicians playing on different instruments, and the main ones are wind elements. In the blues, only one instrument plays, while others create a certain color, playing along with the main performer. The songs are sung with a strong voice that can draw out and muffle the heaviest notes.

Pop, rock and hip hop

Pop songs are listened to by both children and adults. This music is considered the most popular, it is performed by famous singers and singers. This style can be sad, romantic, it will "melt" any heart. Pop music most often demonstrates feelings, love, indifference. The voices of the performers are mostly gentle and pleasant to the ear, gossip and high-profile scandals constantly curl around the stars.

The yellow press persecutes performers and sometimes publishes articles in which information does not coincide with reality. Pop lyrics are usually meaningful. Cheerful and danceable notes cheer up.

Types of songs in hip hop music are combined together with the style of RnB and rap. The first texts were written by African Americans, they told a story about a difficult life and abandoned places in America, where chaos and complete devastation are happening.

Rap, as the performers themselves say, is not sung, it is read. Wide jeans, long T-shirts, baseball caps - this is how rappers look, both black and white. Rap performers hang wide chains with various pendants around their necks.

As for rock, there are divisions within the style itself - the usual and the blues-based style. The first songs came out in the 60s. At the present time, rockers have their own traditions, which manifest themselves in the form of fights on stage, broken guitars, bottles, dousing musicians from head to toe with water. This was not the case in the last century. Rockers of the past sang about love.

Choose what you like the most. If you want, listen to everything at once. The choice is for everyone. In any case, without music, nowhere. She plays everywhere and everywhere.