Genres
- hip-hop
- genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged
- rough cut
- the first print of a movie after preliminary editing
- primitivism
- a genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children
- short subject
- a brief film; often shown prior to showing the feature
- recessional
- a hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw
- sonata
- a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms
- hot jazz
- jazz that is emotionally charged and intense and marked by strong rhythms and improvisation
- 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
- grand opera
- opera in which all the text is sung
- stream of consciousness
- a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy
- fugue
- a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
- symphonic music
- a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra
- recessional march
- a march to be played for processions
- swing
- a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- hymeneal
- a wedding hymn
- folksong
- a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture
- sidebar
- a short news story presenting sidelights on a major story
- punk
- rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock
- three-D
- a movie with images having three dimensional form or appearance
- paean
- (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity)
List More