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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.
Ballata – 13th–15th century Italian musical and poetic form based on an AbbaA structure that acted as a form of dance music. Ballet – a specific style of French classical music created to accompany the ballet dance. Baltimore club – a music style originated from Baltimore that combines hip hop music, breakbeat, and house music.
Concerto grosso – Form in which the musical material is passed between a small group of soloists and full orchestra. Concerto da camera – Concerto with the character of a dance suite, introduced by a prelude. Concerto da chiesa – Concerto with formal character and alternating slow and fast movements. Solo concerto – Concerto for a ...
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Synth-pop – a style of new wave music and a form of electronic music that centers on the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. Originally an intentionally cold-sounding genre, later synth-pop artists incorporated elements of pop music into it, resulting in a more upbeat sound.
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 ...
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A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. [1] Genre is to be distinguished from musical form and musical style, although in practice these terms are sometimes used interchangeably.