Genres
- oratorio
- a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text
- Magnificat
- (Luke) the canticle of the Virgin Mary (from Luke 1:46 beginning `Magnificat anima mea Dominum')
- bluegrass
- a type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars
- antiphonary
- bound collection of antiphons
- pibroch
- martial music with variations; to be played by bagpipes
- boogie
- an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano)
- folk art
- genre of art of unknown origin that reflects traditional values of a society
- postmodernism
- genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism
- shoot-'em-up
- a movie featuring shooting and violence
- final cut
- the final edited version of a movie as approved by the director and producer
- parable
- (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message
- genre painting
- a genre depicting everyday life
- farce comedy
- a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
- opera
- a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes
- film noir
- a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters
- article
- nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication
- schottische
- music performed for dancing the schottische
- slapstick
- a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes
- love story
- a story dealing with love
- fado
- a sad Portuguese folksong
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