This document defines and provides brief descriptions of different genres of music including classical, blues, electronic, flamenco, heavy metal, hip hop, jazz, opera, pop, rap, reggaeton, and rock. Classical music developed in the late 18th/early 19th century characterized by sonatas and composers like Mozart. Blues originated in African American communities in the southern US and is a fusion of African and European folk music. Electronic music uses electronic instruments and technology to produce sounds. Flamenco includes singing, guitar playing, dance and hand clapping from southern Spain.

1. GENRES OF MUSIC
TYPES: Blues, bolero, classic, electronic, flamenco, heavy metal,
hip-hop, jazz, opera, pop, rap
Reggaeton, rock…

3. Classical Music
In technical musical usage this means music composed during the late eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries, characterized by the
development of the sonata by such composers as Mozart. In popular use, howeve
r, the term is used to mean any serious art music asdistinct from jazz, pop, or folk
. A famous classical song is La cabalgata de las Walkirias (Wagner).

4. BLUES
It´s a musical genre that is originated in African-
American communities, in the ´´deep south´´of
the Usa. Is a fusion of African music and
European folk in 19th century.some important
songs and singers are:B.B. King,Eric Clapton and
Ray Charles(singers). She caught the Katy. And
sweet home chicago(songs).

5. Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical
instruments and electronic music technology in its production, an electronic
musician being a musician who composes and/or performs such music. In
general a distinction can be made between sound produced using
electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. The
first electronic devices for performing music were developed at the end of the
19th century, and shortly afterward Italian futurists explored sounds that had
previously not been considered musical. An example of electronic music is
wizard from Martin Garrix.

6. Flamenco
Is an artform and genre of music and dance native to the
southern Spanish regions of
Andalucia, Extremadura and Murcia. It
includes cante (singing), toque (guitar
playing), baile (dance) and jaleo, which refers to the
vocalizations and rhythmic sounds of palmas (handclapping)
and pitos (finger snapping).

7. Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late
1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States.With
roots in blues rock and psychedelic rock the bands that created heavy metal
developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion,
extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness.

8. Hip hop music, also called hip-hop or rap music, is a music genre consisting of
a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and
rhyming speech that is chanted. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a
subculture defined by four key stylistic
elements: MCing/rapping, Djing/scratching, break dancing, and graffiti
writing.Other elements includesampling (or synthesis), and beatboxing.

9. JAZZ
Jazz is a genre of music that originated in African American communities in
the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century. It emerged in the form
of independent traditional music and popular musical styles, all linked by the
common bonds of African American and European American musical parentage
with a performance orientation. Jazz spans a period of over a hundred years,
encompassing a range of music from ragtime to jazz-rock fusion of the 1970s
and 1980s, and has proved to be difficult to define. Jazz makes heavy use
of improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation and the swung note, as well as
aspects of European harmony, American popular music, the brass band tradition,
and African musical elements such as blue notes and African-American styles
such as ragtime.The birth of jazz in the multicultural society of America has led
intellectuals from around the world to hail jazz as "one of America's original art
forms".

10. OPERA
Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition. It started in Italy at the end of
the 16th century (with Jacopo Peri's lost Dafne, produced in Florence in 1598) and
soon spread through the rest of Europe: Schütz in Germany, Lully in France,
and Purcell in England all helped to establish their national traditions in the 17th
century. In the 18th century, Italian opera continued to dominate most of Europe
(except France), attracting foreign composers such as Handel. Opera seria was the
most prestigious form of Italian opera, until Gluck reacted against its artificiality
with his "reform" operas in the 1760s. Today the most renowned figure of late 18th
century opera is Mozart, who began with opera seria but is most famous for his
Italian comic operas, especially The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze Di Figaro), Don
Giovanni, and Così fan tutte, as well as The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte), a
landmark in the German tradition.

11. Pop music (a term that derives from "popular") is a genre of popular
music that originated in its modern form in the Western world during the
1950s and 1960s, deriving from rock and roll. The terms "popular music"
and "pop music" are often used interchangeably, although the former
describes all music that is popular (and can include any style).
Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other styles such
as urban, dance, rock, Latin, and country; nonetheless, there are core
elements that define pop music. Identifying factors 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 hooks.

12. RAP
Rapping (or emceeing, MCing, spitting bars, or rhyming) is "spoken or chanted
rhyming lyrics".The components of rapping include "content", "flow"
(rhythm andrhyme), and "delivery". Rapping is distinct from spoken-word poetry in
that it is performed in time to a beat. Rapping is often associated with and a primary
ingredient of hip-hop music, but the origins of the phenomenon can be said to
predate hip-hop culture by centuries. It can also be found in alternative rock such as
that of Cake and the Red Hot Chili Peppers

13. REGGAETON
Reggaetón or Spanish: reguetón [is a music genre with roots in Latin and
Caribbean music. Its sound is derived from the Reggae en
Español from Panama.[This rhythm came to Puerto Rico and achieved a greater
worldwide popularity. After its mainstream exposure in 2004, it spread to North
American, European, Asian and African audiences.
Reggaeton blends musical influences
of Jamaican dancehall and Trinidadian soca with those of Latin America, such
as salsa, bomba, Latin American hip hop, and electronica. Vocals
include rapping and singing, typically in Spanish.

14. Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United
States in the 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later,
particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s' and
1950s' rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country
music