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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.
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.
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.
Pages in category "Lists of music genres" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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Evolution in musical instruments [1] in technology and in culture can influence the evolution of musical genres. [2] Genealogical charts or family trees of musical genres show how new genres have emerged from existing genres and how multiple genres have contributed to a new genre. Since music can be endlessly broken down into smaller and ...
Chamber music; Chart hit; Chops (embouchure) Choral symphony; Chord progression; Chording; Chordioid; Clarion (instrument) Close and open harmony; Coda (music) Composer; Composer tributes (classical music) Concert aria; Conclusion (music) Conducting; Contrafact; Contralto; Copedent; Count off; Countertenor; Cover band; Cross-beat
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 ...