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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