Genres
- dark comedy
- a comedy characterized by grim or satiric humor; a comedy having gloomy or disturbing elements
- polyphonic prose
- a rhythmical prose employing the poetic devices of alliteration and assonance
- symphony
- a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra
- talkie
- a movie with synchronized speech and singing
- Arthurian legend
- the legend of King Arthur and his court at Camelot
- postmodernism
- genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism
- cartoon
- a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence
- serious music
- traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste
- hymeneal
- a wedding hymn
- progressive rock
- a style of rock music that emerged in the 1970s; associated with attempts to combine rock with jazz and other forms; intended for listening and not dancing
- abstractionism
- an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation
- slapstick
- a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes
- Magnificat
- (Luke) the canticle of the Virgin Mary (from Luke 1:46 beginning `Magnificat anima mea Dominum')
- spaghetti Western
- a low-budget Western movie produced by a European (especially an Italian) film company
- reggae
- popular music originating in the West Indies; repetitive bass riffs and regular chords played on the off beat by a guitar
- cantus firmus
- a pre-existing melody used as the basis for a polyphonic composition; originally drawn from plainchant, but later drawn from other sources
- stream of consciousness
- a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy
- chamber music
- serious music performed by a small group of musicians
- folk art
- genre of art of unknown origin that reflects traditional values of a society
- myth
- a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people
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