Genres
- dance music
- a genre of popular music composed for ballroom dancing
- serious music
- traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste
- operetta
- a short amusing opera
- opera
- a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes
- jazz
- a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
- grand opera
- opera in which all the text is sung
- peepshow
- a short pornographic film shown in a small coin-operated booth
- pibroch
- martial music with variations; to be played by bagpipes
- epos
- a body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme
- neo jazz
- any of various styles of jazz that appeared after 1940
- epic poetry
- poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero
- bebop
- an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
- synthetism
- a genre of French painting characterized by bright flat shapes and symbolic treatments of abstract ideas
- chinoiserie
- a style in art reflecting Chinese influence; elaborately decorated and intricately patterned
- opera bouffe
- opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken
- column
- an article giving opinions or perspectives
- skin flick
- a pornographic movie
- doxology
- a hymn or verse in Christian liturgy glorifying God
- C and W
- a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments
- sidebar
- a short news story presenting sidelights on a major story
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