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  2. List of music genres and styles - Wikipedia

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    Ballroom dance music: pasodoble, cha cha cha and others. Vogue (dance) Children's music. Dance music. Slow dance. Drug use in music. Incidental music or music for stage and screen: music written for the score of a film, play, musicals, or other spheres, such as filmi, video game music, music hall songs and showtunes and others.

  3. Music genre - Wikipedia

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    Music genre. 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. [2]

  4. History of music - Wikipedia

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    "But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."

  5. List of genres - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of genres of literature and entertainment (film, television, music, and video games), excluding genres in the visual arts.. Genre is the term for any category of creative work, which includes literature and other forms of art or entertainment (e.g. music)—whether written or spoken, audio or visual—based on some set of stylistic criteria.

  6. Sikh music - Wikipedia

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    Sikh music performed as per the musical modes, melodies, and forms prescribed as per the Guru Granth Sahib declined greatly. [1] This was accompanied by a decline in the usage of traditional Sikh instruments, especially stringed-instruments (such as the rabab, saranda, and tāūs [bowed fretted lute]) which were mostly supplanted by the ...

  7. Guru Granth Sahib - Wikipedia

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    Title-page of a metal-type print of the Guru Granth Sahib based upon the Kartarpur Bir, by Rai Sahib Munshi Gulab Singh and Sons, published by the Mufidam Press, 1899 According to Namdhari Sikh literature, Diwan Buta Singh was the first person to print an edition of the Guru Granth Sahib, which was likely printed in 1868 or even earlier.

  8. Music of India - Wikipedia

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    This article has an unclear citation style. The references used may be made clearer with a different or consistent style of citation and footnoting. (July 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Tyagaraju known for his extensive contributions to Carnatic music. Music of India Genres Traditional Classical Carnatic Odissi Hindustani Folk Borgeet Baul Bhajan Kirtana Shyama Sangeet ...

  9. Raga - Wikipedia

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    There are two main classical music traditions, Hindustani (North Indian) and Carnatic (South Indian), and the concept of rāga is shared by both. [5] Rāga are also found in Sikh traditions such as in Guru Granth Sahib, the primary scripture of Sikhism. [9] Similarly, it is a part of the qawwali tradition in Sufi Islamic communities of South ...