Genres
- romance
- a story dealing with love
- op art
- a style of abstractionism popular in the 1960s; produces dramatic visual effects with colors and contrasts that are difficult for the eye to resolve
- Pilgrim's Progress
- an allegory written by John Bunyan in 1678
- prosodion
- religious music used in a procession
- square-dance music
- music performed for square dancing
- disco
- popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques
- gospel
- folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United States and featuring call and response; influential on the development of other genres of popular music (especially soul)
- macumba
- popular dance music of Brazil; derived from the practices of the macumba religious cult
- plainsong
- (Roman Catholic Church) a liturgical chant consisting of a single, unaccompanied melodic line
- antiphonary
- bound collection of antiphons
- detective story
- a narrative about someone who investigates crimes and obtains evidence leading to their resolution
- canticle
- a hymn derived from the Bible
- chant
- a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone
- spaghetti Western
- a low-budget Western movie produced by a European (especially an Italian) film company
- closet drama
- drama more suitable for reading that for performing
- Christmas carol
- joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ
- sonatina
- a short and simple sonata
- short subject
- a brief film; often shown prior to showing the feature
- sonata
- a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms
- schottische
- music performed for dancing the schottische
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