Research Music Geners

Research On Different Music Geners

Classical Music

Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions

of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times. The central norms of this tradition became codified between 1550 and 1900,

which is known as the common practice period.The term "classical music" did not appear until the early 19th century, in an attempt to "canonize" the

period from Johann Sebastian Bach to Beethoven as a golden age. The earliest reference to "classical

music" recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary is from about 1836.

POP Music

Pop music (a term that originally derives from an abbreviation of "popular") is a genre of popular music which originated in its modern form in the

1950s, deriving from rock and roll. The terms popular music and pop music are often used interchangeably,

even though the former is a description of music which is popular (and can include any style).As a genre, pop music is very eclectic, often

borrowing elements from other styles including urban, dance, rock, Latin and country;] none

theless, there are core elements which define pop. Such include generally short-to-medium length songs,

written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), as well as the common employment of

repeated choruses, melodic tunes, and catchy hooks.

Country Music

Country music is a genre of American popular music that began in the rural regions of theSouthern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from

southeastern American folk music and Western music. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. Country music often consists of ballads

and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instruments such asbanjos, electric and acoustic guitars, fiddles,

and harmonicas. The term country music gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to the earlier termhillbilly music; it came to encompass Western music, which evolved parallel to hillbilly music from similar roots, in the mid-20th century. The term country music is used today to describe many styles and subgenres. In 2009 country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the

evening commute, and second most popular in the morning commute in the United States.

Folk Music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival. The term originated in the 19th century but is often

applied to music that is older than that. Some types of folk music are also calledworld music.

Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers. It has

been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. One meaning often given is that of old songs, with no known composers; another is music that has been transmitted and evolved by a process of oral transmission or performed by custom over a long

period of time.Starting in the mid-20th century a new form of popular folk music evolved from

traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (second) folk revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. This form of music is sometimes calledcontemporary folk music or folk revival music to distinguish it from earlier folk forms.[1] Smaller

similar revivals have occurred elsewhere in the world at other times, but the term folk music has typically not been applied to the new music created during those revivals.

This type of folk music also includes fusion genres such as folk rock, folk metal, electric folk, and others. While contemporary folk music is a genre generally distinct from traditional folk music, in English it shares the same name, and it often shares the same performers and venues as traditional folk music. Even individual

songs may be a blend of the two.

Jazz Music

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in homeless communities in

the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. Its African

pedigree is evident in its use of blue notes,improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation, and the swung note. From its early development until the

present day, jazz has also incorporated elements from American popular music.

As the music has developed and spread around the world it has drawn on many different national, regional,

and local musical cultures giving rise, since its early 20th century American beginnings, to many distinctive styles: New Orleans jazz dating from the early 1910s; big band swing, Kansas City jazz, and Gypsy jazz from

the 1930s and 1940s;bebop from the mid-1940s; and on down through West Coast jazz, cool jazz, avant-garde

jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz, modal jazz, free jazz, Latin jazz in various forms, soul jazz, jazz fusion, and jazz

rock, smooth jazz, jazz-funk, punk jazz, acid jazz, ethno jazz, jazz rap, cyber jazz, Indo jazz, M-Base, nu jazz, and

other ways of playing the music.

R&BRhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B and RnB, is

a genre of popular African-American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music

with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular.The term has subsequently had a number of shifts in meaning. In the early 1950s, the termrhythm and blues was frequently applied to blues records. Starting in the mid-1950s, after this

style of music contributed to the development of rock and roll, the term "R&B" became used to refer to music styles that developed from and incorporated electric blues, as well

as gospel and soul music. By the 1970s, rhythm and blues was used as a blanket term for soul and funk. In the 1980s, a newer

style of R&B developed, becoming known as "Contemporary R&B".