Genres
- Aesop's fables
- a collection of fables believed to have been written by the Greek storyteller Aesop
- infotainment
- a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event
- tragedy
- drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity
- hot jazz
- jazz that is emotionally charged and intense and marked by strong rhythms and improvisation
- collage film
- a movie that juxtaposes different kinds of footage
- self-taught art
- a genre of art and outdoor constructions made by untrained artists who do not recognize themselves as artists
- thriller
- a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie
- reprint
- a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
- spaghetti Western
- a low-budget Western movie produced by a European (especially an Italian) film company
- fugue
- a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
- cantata
- a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text
- quickstep
- military march accompanying quick time
- paper
- a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses
- editorial
- an article giving opinions or perspectives
- parable
- (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message
- chant
- a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone
- scat singing
- singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
- popular music genre
- any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)
- prose poem
- prose that resembles poetry
- talking picture
- a movie with synchronized speech and singing
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