Genres
- prose
- ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
- offprint
- a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
- opera
- a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes
- agony column
- a newspaper column devoted to personal problems
- rap
- 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
- animated cartoon
- a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence
- rough cut
- the first print of a movie after preliminary editing
- fugue
- a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
- 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
- hillbilly music
- country music originating in mountainous regions of southern United States
- antiphonary
- bound collection of antiphons
- jazz
- a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
- sonata
- a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms
- rock-and-roll
- a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
- magazine article
- an article published in a magazine
- hot jazz
- jazz that is emotionally charged and intense and marked by strong rhythms and improvisation
- chinoiserie
- a style in art reflecting Chinese influence; elaborately decorated and intricately patterned
- boogie-woogie
- an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano)
- disco music
- popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques
- adventure story
- a story of an adventure
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