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  2. List of music genres and styles - Wikipedia

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    Incidental music or music for stage and screen: music written for the score of a film, play, musicals, or other spheres, such as filmi, video game music, music hall songs and showtunes and others; Independent music. Multi-instrumentalist. A cappella; Bassist; Drummer. Percussion. Found object (music) Guitarist; Pianist. Keyboardist; One-man ...

  3. Musical analysis - Wikipedia

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    Approaches or techniques to musical analysis. Assumption and advocating could be considered missing. Musical analysis is the study of musical structure in either compositions or performances. [1] According to music theorist Ian Bent, music analysis "is the means of answering directly the question 'How does it work?'". [2]

  4. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    In a singing style. In instrumental music, a style of playing that imitates the way the human voice might express the music, with a measured tempo and flexible legato. cantilena a vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style canto Chorus; choral; chant cantus mensuratus or cantus figuratus (Lat.)

  5. Genealogy of musical genres - Wikipedia

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    Evolution in musical instruments [1] in technology and in culture can influence the evolution of musical genres. [2] Genealogical charts or family trees of musical genres show how new genres have emerged from existing genres and how multiple genres have contributed to a new genre. Since music can be endlessly broken down into smaller and ...

  6. Music of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Today, the American record industry defines Latin music as any type of release with lyrics mostly in Spanish. [153] [154] Mainstream artists and producers tend to feature more on songs from Latin artists and it has also become more likely that English language songs crossover to Spanish radio and vice versa.

  7. Rhythm and blues - Wikipedia

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    Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within the Black American community in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when "rocking, jazz based music ...

  8. Category:Musical instruments by genre - Wikipedia

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  9. Glossary of jazz and popular music - Wikipedia

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    Rhythm and blues. A musical style that grew out of Black American blues, boogie-woogie, Gospel, roadhouse piano/guitar duos and other influences mostly from the Southern United States. rallentando (rall.) Progressively slower. register. Part of the range of an instrument or voice. ("The lower register of the singer's voice was rich and dark ...