Genres

genre painting
a genre depicting everyday life
 
thriller
a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie
 
African-American music
music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses
 
hymn
a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)
 
stream of consciousness
a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy
 
wedding march
a march to be played for a wedding procession
 
recessional
a hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw
 
modernism
genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
 
scat singing
singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
 
sonatina
a short and simple sonata
 
Messiah
an oratorio composed by Handel in 1742
 
slow motion
a movie that apparently takes place at a slower than normal speed; achieved by taking the film at a faster rate
 
R and B
a combination of blues and jazz that was developed in the United States by Black musicians; an important precursor of rock 'n' roll
 
martial music
brisk marching music suitable for troops marching in a military parade
 
synthetism
a genre of French painting characterized by bright flat shapes and symbolic treatments of abstract ideas
 
cantata
a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text
 
cantus firmus
a pre-existing melody used as the basis for a polyphonic composition; originally drawn from plainchant, but later drawn from other sources
 
zydeco
music of southern Louisiana that combines French dance melodies with Caribbean music and blues
 
allegory
a short moral story (often with animal characters)
 
C and W
a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments
 
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