Genres
- C and W
- a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments
- shoot-'em-up
- a movie featuring shooting and violence
- paper
- a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses
- recessional march
- a march to be played for processions
- art rock
- a style of rock music that emerged in the 1970s; associated with attempts to combine rock with jazz and other forms; intended for listening and not dancing
- peepshow
- a short pornographic film shown in a small coin-operated booth
- soul
- a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s
- 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
- schottische
- music performed for dancing the schottische
- quickstep
- military march accompanying quick time
- folk art
- genre of art of unknown origin that reflects traditional values of a society
- high comedy
- a sophisticated comedy; often satirizing genteel society
- article
- nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication
- rock opera
- an opera with rock music
- murder mystery
- a narrative about a murder and how the murderer is discovered
- boogie-woogie
- an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano)
- coming attraction
- a movie that is advertised to draw customers
- hymn
- a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)
- heroic tale
- a story of an adventure
- scat
- singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
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