Genres
- recessional
- a hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw
- canticle
- a hymn derived from the Bible
- shoot-'em-up
- a movie featuring shooting and violence
- schottische
- music performed for dancing the schottische
- religious music
- genre of music composed for performance as part of religious ceremonies
- rap
- genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged
- chant
- a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone
- hillbilly music
- country music originating in mountainous regions of southern United States
- grand opera
- opera in which all the text is sung
- concerto grosso
- a baroque composition for orchestra and a group of solo instruments
- pibroch
- martial music with variations; to be played by bagpipes
- abstract art
- an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation
- verse
- literature in metrical form
- opera bouffe
- opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken
- editorial
- an article giving opinions or perspectives
- tragicomedy
- a dramatic composition involving elements of both tragedy and comedy usually with the tragic predominating
- euphuism
- an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology
- magic realism
- a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative or meticulously realistic painting are combined with surreal elements of fantasy or dreams
- hymeneal
- a wedding hymn
- talking picture
- a movie with synchronized speech and singing
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