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Regional and national music with no significant commercial impact abroad, except when it is a version of an international genre, such as: traditional music, oral traditions, sea shanties, work songs, nursery rhymes, Arabesque and indigenous music.
Avant-garde music – music considered to be ahead of its time, often using new, unusual, or experimental elements, or fusing pre-existing genres. Avant-garde jazz – an avant-garde style of jazz made purposefully to challenge the conventions of the genre; related and originally synonymous with free jazz , avant-garde jazz still maintains some ...
Works about music genres (10 C, 1 P) C. Classical and art music traditions (13 C, 45 P) Contemporary music (17 C, 16 P) D. Dance music (6 C, 13 P) E. Experimental ...
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Obscuro; Obikhod – a collection of liturgical chants used by the Russian Orthodox Church; tends to be polyphonic.; Oi! – 1980s style of British punk rock. Old-school hip hop – a term for hip hop music recorded before approximately 1984; this style tended to have simpler rapping techniques with lyrics that generally focused on party-related subject matter, resulting in songs that are much ...
Wonky – music with shaky off-kilter beats that came out of the 90s. Work song; Worldbeat – a music genre that combines rock and pop music with music that is usually labeled as world music. World music – music originating outside the Western world (although the term has occasionally been applied to various forms of Western folk music).
Many classical compositions belong to a numbered series of works of a similar type by the same composer. For example, Beethoven wrote 9 symphonies, 10 violin sonatas, 32 piano sonatas, 5 piano concertos, 16 string quartets, 7 piano trios and other works, all of which are numbered sequentially within their genres and generally referred to by their sequence numbers, keys and opus numbers.
Genre Instrument Location or nationality Miscellanea See also Genre The following are lists of musicians by style or music genre. 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O ...