Genres
- cinema verite
- a movie that shows ordinary people in actual activities without being controlled by a director
- Dies Irae
- the first words of a medieval Latin hymn describing the Last Judgment (literally `day of wrath')
- sidebar
- a short news story presenting sidelights on a major story
- three-D
- a movie with images having three dimensional form or appearance
- wedding march
- a march to be played for a wedding procession
- pointillism
- a genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th century France
- soul
- a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s
- pop music
- 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
- operetta
- a short amusing opera
- blues
- a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
- 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
- personal
- a short newspaper article about a particular person or group
- interior monologue
- a literary genre that presents a fictional character's sequence of thoughts in the form of a monologue
- stream of consciousness
- a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy
- cool jazz
- jazz that is restrained and fluid and marked by intricate harmonic structures often lagging slightly behind the beat
- scat
- singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
- hymn
- a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)
- Negro spiritual
- a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States
- lead
- a news story of major importance
- offprint
- a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
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