Genres

Hare Krishna
a chant to the Hindu god Krishna
 
church music
genre of music composed for performance as part of religious ceremonies
 
modernism
genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
 
rough cut
the first print of a movie after preliminary editing
 
oratorio
a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text
 
classical
traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste
 
three-D
a movie with images having three dimensional form or appearance
 
landscape
a genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery
 
heroic poetry
poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero
 
spaghetti Western
a low-budget Western movie produced by a European (especially an Italian) film company
 
Te Deum
an ancient liturgical hymn
 
magic realism
a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative or meticulously realistic painting are combined with surreal elements of fantasy or dreams
 
canticle
a hymn derived from the Bible
 
prose poem
prose that resembles poetry
 
antiphonal
bound collection of antiphons
 
collage film
a movie that juxtaposes different kinds of footage
 
wedding march
a march to be played for a wedding procession
 
commedia dell'arte
Italian comedy of the 16th to 18th centuries improvised from standardized situations and stock characters
 
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
 
recessional
a hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw
 
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