Genres
- popular music
- any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)
- heroic poetry
- poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero
- home movie
- a film made at home by an amateur photographer
- bop
- an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
- musical drama
- opera in which the musical and dramatic elements are equally important; the music is appropriate to the action
- scat
- singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
- closet drama
- drama more suitable for reading that for performing
- situation comedy
- a humorous drama based on situations that might arise in day-to-day life
- interior monologue
- a literary genre that presents a fictional character's sequence of thoughts in the form of a monologue
- thriller
- a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie
- fado
- a sad Portuguese folksong
- prose poem
- prose that resembles poetry
- film noir
- a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters
- rockabilly
- a fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s; sometimes described as blues with a country beat
- stream of consciousness
- a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy
- separate
- a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
- schottische
- music performed for dancing the schottische
- love story
- a story dealing with love
- rock opera
- an opera with rock music
- chamber music
- serious music performed by a small group of musicians
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