Genres
- silents
- a movie without a soundtrack
- polyphonic prose
- a rhythmical prose employing the poetic devices of alliteration and assonance
- heavy metal
- loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat; lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery
- reggae
- popular music originating in the West Indies; repetitive bass riffs and regular chords played on the off beat by a guitar
- recessional
- a hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw
- square-dance music
- music performed for square dancing
- jive
- a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- Hallel
- (Judaism) a chant of praise (Psalms 113 through 118) used at Passover and Shabuoth and Sukkoth and Hanukkah and Rosh Hodesh
- three-D
- a movie with images having three dimensional form or appearance
- animated cartoon
- a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence
- stream of consciousness
- a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy
- Western
- a film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development
- soul
- a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s
- rondo
- a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata
- apologue
- a short moral story (often with animal characters)
- African-American music
- music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses
- commedia dell'arte
- Italian comedy of the 16th to 18th centuries improvised from standardized situations and stock characters
- final cut
- the final edited version of a movie as approved by the director and producer
- spaghetti Western
- a low-budget Western movie produced by a European (especially an Italian) film company
- epic poetry
- poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero
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