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This is a list of music genres and styles. Music can be described in terms of many genres and styles. Classifications are often arbitrary, and may be disputed and closely related forms often overlap. Larger genres and styles comprise more specific sub-categories.
Acoustic music – a music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means. Adult contemporary music – any music with lush and soothing qualities that focuses on melody and harmony. African-American music – any music made by African-Americans.
Easy listening (including mood music [5]) is a popular music genre [6] [7] [8] and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to the 1970s. [9] It is related to middle of the road (MOR) music [1] and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit songs, non-rock vocals and instrumental covers of selected popular rock songs.
Her sound transcends multiple genres while evoking all the greats with a fresh new twist. The Canadian born singer-songwriter can't be put into a box. Her sound transcends multiple genres while ...
This is a list of electronic music genres, consisting of genres of electronic music, primarily created with electronic musical instruments or electronic music technology. A distinction has been made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. [ 1 ]
The term is commonly used to refer to tracker format music using extremely basic and small samples that an old computer or console could produce (this is the original meaning of the term), as well as music that combines PSG sounds with modern musical styles. [15] [16] [17] It has been described as "an interpretation of many genres". Any ...
Noise music is a genre of music that is characterised by the expressive use of noise.This type of music tends to challenge the distinction that is made in conventional musical practices between musical and non-musical sound. [4]
Lowercase is an extreme form of ambient [1] [2] minimalism in which very quiet sounds are amplified to extreme levels. Minimal artist Steve Roden popularized the movement with an album entitled Forms of Paper, in which he made recordings of himself handling paper in various ways.