Genres
- think piece
- an article in a newspaper or magazine or journal that represents opinions and ideas and discussion rather than bare facts
- 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
- feature
- the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater
- doxology
- a hymn or verse in Christian liturgy glorifying God
- landscape painting
- a genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery
- piano sonata
- a sonata for piano
- seriocomedy
- a comedy with serious elements or overtones
- soul
- a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s
- chamber music
- serious music performed by a small group of musicians
- folk song
- a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture
- peepshow
- a short pornographic film shown in a small coin-operated booth
- cantus firmus
- a pre-existing melody used as the basis for a polyphonic composition; originally drawn from plainchant, but later drawn from other sources
- melodrama
- an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization
- hymn
- a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)
- schottische
- music performed for dancing the schottische
- lead story
- a news story of major importance
- pop
- music of general appeal to teenagers; a bland watered-down version of rock'n'roll with more rhythm and harmony and an emphasis on romantic love
- pibroch
- martial music with variations; to be played by bagpipes
- newspaper column
- an article giving opinions or perspectives
- operetta
- a short amusing opera
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