Genres
- paper
- a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses
- popular music
- any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)
- grand opera
- opera in which all the text is sung
- telefilm
- a movie that is made to be shown on television
- bop
- an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
- skin flick
- a pornographic movie
- fugue
- a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
- recessional
- a hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw
- classical
- traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste
- funk
- an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
- magazine article
- an article published in a magazine
- lead story
- a news story of major importance
- agony column
- a newspaper column devoted to personal problems
- operetta
- a short amusing opera
- collage film
- a movie that juxtaposes different kinds of footage
- commedia dell'arte
- Italian comedy of the 16th to 18th centuries improvised from standardized situations and stock characters
- macumba
- popular dance music of Brazil; derived from the practices of the macumba religious cult
- doxology
- a hymn or verse in Christian liturgy glorifying God
- poesy
- literature in metrical form
- modernism
- genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
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