Genres

processional

religious music used in a procession

 

piano sonata

a sonata for piano

 

R and B

a combination of blues and jazz that was developed in the United States by Black musicians; an important precursor of rock 'n' roll

 

dark comedy

a comedy characterized by grim or satiric humor; a comedy having gloomy or disturbing elements

 

disco music

popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques

 

short story

a prose narrative shorter than a novel

 

cantata

a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text

 

concerto grosso

a baroque composition for orchestra and a group of solo instruments

 

choral

a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune

 

modernism

genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres

 

bluegrass

a type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars

 

acid rock

a musical style that emerged in the 1960s; rock music inspired by or related to drug-induced experience

 

slow motion

a movie that apparently takes place at a slower than normal speed; achieved by taking the film at a faster rate

 

coming attraction

a movie that is advertised to draw customers

 

C and W

a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments

 

funk

an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar

 

pean

(ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity)

 

grand opera

opera in which all the text is sung

 

article

nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication

 

soul

a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s