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Ambient house is a musical category founded in the late 1980s that is used to describe acid house featuring ambient music elements and atmospheres. [73] Tracks in the ambient house genre typically feature four-on-the-floor beats, synth pads , and vocal samples integrated in an atmospheric style. [ 73 ]
Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, modern classical music and even noise. It is chiefly identifiable as having an overarching atmospheric context.
A variety of musical terms are encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes. Most of the terms are Italian, in accordance with the Italian origins of many European musical conventions. Sometimes, the special musical meanings of these phrases differ from the original or current Italian meanings.
Ambient music, a genre of music that puts an emphasis on tone and atmosphere; Ambient, by Moby; Ambience, by the Lambrettas; Virgin Ambient series, a series of 24 albums released on the UK Virgin Records label between 1993 and 1997; Ambient 1–4, a set of four albums by Brian Eno, released by Obscure Records between 1978 and 1982
This category is for musical terms and terminology. Subcategories. This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total. ...
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart , it is one of the largest reference works on the history and theory of music .
Space music, also called spacemusic or space ambient, is a subgenre of ambient music and is described as "tranquil, hypnotic and moving". It is derived from new-age music and is associated with lounge music, easy listening, and elevator music.
Dark ambient (referred to as ambient industrial especially in the 1980s) is a genre of post-industrial music [1] [3] that features an ominous, dark droning and often gloomy, monumental or catacombal atmosphere, partially with discordant overtones.