Genres
- scat
- singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
- toon
- a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence
- romance
- a story dealing with love
- short subject
- a brief film; often shown prior to showing the feature
- Te Deum
- an ancient liturgical hymn
- rough cut
- the first print of a movie after preliminary editing
- chinoiserie
- a style in art reflecting Chinese influence; elaborately decorated and intricately patterned
- classical
- traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste
- macumba
- popular dance music of Brazil; derived from the practices of the macumba religious cult
- outsider art
- a genre of art and outdoor constructions made by untrained artists who do not recognize themselves as artists
- blues
- a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
- rockabilly
- a fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s; sometimes described as blues with a country beat
- grand opera
- opera in which all the text is sung
- drama
- the literary genre of works intended for the theater
- punk
- rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock
- prose poem
- prose that resembles poetry
- paper
- a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses
- genre painting
- a genre depicting everyday life
- slapstick
- a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes
- black comedy
- comedy that uses black humor
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