Genres
- 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
- skin flick
- a pornographic movie
- pibroch
- martial music with variations; to be played by bagpipes
- pop music
- music of general appeal to teenagers; a bland watered-down version of rock'n'roll with more rhythm and harmony and an emphasis on romantic love
- modernism
- genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
- piano sonata
- a sonata for piano
- think piece
- an article in a newspaper or magazine or journal that represents opinions and ideas and discussion rather than bare facts
- military music
- brisk marching music suitable for troops marching in a military parade
- interior monologue
- a literary genre that presents a fictional character's sequence of thoughts in the form of a monologue
- feature
- a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine
- Twilight of the Gods
- myth about the ultimate destruction of the gods in a battle with evil
- news article
- an article reporting news
- parable
- (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message
- Messiah
- an oratorio composed by Handel in 1742
- blues
- a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
- fugue
- a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
- grand opera
- opera in which all the text is sung
- murder mystery
- a narrative about a murder and how the murderer is discovered
- slapstick
- a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes
- three-D
- a movie with images having three dimensional form or appearance
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