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2. New-age music - Wikipedia

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   New-age is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism.It is used by listeners for yoga, massage, meditation, [1] and reading as a method of stress management [2] to bring about a state of ecstasy rather than trance, [3] [4] or to create a peaceful atmosphere in homes or other environments.

3. Ambient music - Wikipedia

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   The track "Red Sails" from the trilogy's third album, Lodger (1979), was retroactively described as a "piece of ambient-pop" by the music journalist David Buckley in David Bowie: The Music and The Changes, as it prominently incorporates a motorik drum rhythm, electronically processed guitars and a simplistic melody. [78]

4. Chill-out music - Wikipedia

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   Chill-out (shortened as chill; also typeset as chillout or chill out) is a loosely defined form of popular music characterized by slow tempos and relaxed moods. [1] [2] The definition of "chill-out music" has evolved throughout the decades, and generally refers to anything that might be identified as a modern type of easy listening.

5. List of music genres and styles - Wikipedia

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   Fabbri, Franco (1982) A Theory of Popular Music Genres: Two Applications. In Popular Music Perspectives, edited by David Horn and Philip Tagg, 52–81. Göteborg and Exeter: A. Wheaton & Co., Ltd. Frith, Simon (1996) Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. Holt, Fabian (2007) Genre in ...

6. Meditation music - Wikipedia

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   Meditation music is music performed to aid in the practice of meditation.It can have a specific religious content, but also more recently has been associated with modern composers who use meditation techniques in their process of composition, or who compose such music with no particular religious group as a focus.

7. List of styles of music: A–F - Wikipedia

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   Calypso music – a Trinidadian popular music genre inspired by both African (via Kaiso) and French styles and is known for its lyrics dealing with the racist oppression of native Trinidadians at the time. Calypso-style baila – a fusion of baila and calypso. Campursari – Indonesian fusion genre, combining several folk styles with pop music ...

8. Background music - Wikipedia

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   Background music (British English: piped music) is a mode of musical performance in which the music is not intended to be a primary focus of potential listeners, but its content, character, and volume level are deliberately chosen to affect behavioral and emotional responses in humans such as concentration, relaxation, distraction, and excitement.

9. Ambient 1: Music for Airports - Wikipedia

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   Eno is the sole music credit, and he also wrote original music for the documentary. "1/1" is frequently used as background music on the US public radio program This American Life. "1/1" is used as background music in the 1986 film 9½ Weeks. [78] "1/1" features prominently in the opening scene of the 2009 motion picture The Lovely Bones. [79]