Genres

Gregorian chant
a variety of plainsong named after Pope Gregory I
 
magazine article
an article published in a magazine
 
magic realism
a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative or meticulously realistic painting are combined with surreal elements of fantasy or dreams
 
love story
a story dealing with love
 
hymn
a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)
 
operetta
a short amusing opera
 
myth
a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people
 
parable
(New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message
 
Messiah
an oratorio composed by Handel in 1742
 
modern jazz
any of various styles of jazz that appeared after 1940
 
recessional march
a march to be played for processions
 
spaghetti Western
a low-budget Western movie produced by a European (especially an Italian) film company
 
piano sonata
a sonata for piano
 
allegory
a short moral story (often with animal characters)
 
fugue
a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
 
hymeneal
a wedding hymn
 
personal
a short newspaper article about a particular person or group
 
thriller
a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie
 
slow motion
a movie that apparently takes place at a slower than normal speed; achieved by taking the film at a faster rate
 
swing music
a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
 
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