Music genres

1. MUSIC GENRES
Music gernes are the different types of
music that are classify according to their
purpose. Depending on the intention and the
instruments, we can distinguish several
different genres:

2. Vocal genre
This is a type of genre which is
created to the human voice
without accompaninent.

3. Instrumental genre
·Pure music:
this genre applies
to music that is
composed to be
played as music
and nothing else.
·Descriptive
music: this
genre refers to
music which
represents
extra-musical
contexts that
aren't directly
related to music.

4. Vocal and
instrumental genre
Music that requieres a combination
of voices and instruments together.

5. Religious genre
·Liturgical
music:
music
composed to
be played in
religious
ceremonies.
·Non-liturgical-
music:
music composed
for a religion
purpose.

6. Profane genre
This comprises any composition
that serves no religious purpose,
whether liturgical or non-liturgical,
and which is used for
entertainment or of a cultural or
educational purposes.

7. We can divide profane music
as:
·Popular music: this can be:
*Folk music: includes popular folk music,
ballads and local legends ans history, handed
down from one generation to the next.
*Light music: includes any simple,
easy-to-understand, mainstream music of a
marked commercial character, generally intented
for leisure. Ex.: pop music, rock,blues...

8. ·Cultured music:
Intended for a cultural context, these
compositions are written in a specific
period. They reflect the cultural context
of the time and the composer's
personal throughs. Cultured music is
also know as “serious music”.

9. Functional genre
This genre applies to music that
serves as a backdrop to important
events. Ex.: the Olympic hymn.

10. Cinematographic genre
When motion picture sound
tracks are used to reinforce the
film's message, maximising the
sentiments and emotions in the
script.

11. Pop music
Pop music is the abbreviation of
popular music.
Pop music is an ample and imprecise
category of modern music not defined
by artistic considerations but by its
potential audience or prospective
market. Pop is music composed with
deliberate intent to appeal to the
majority of its contemporaries.

12. Heavy metal
(Heavy) Metal is a genre of rock
music that developed in the late
1960s and early 1970s. With roots in
blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the
bands that created heavy metal
developed a thick, heavy, guitar-and-
drums-centered sound, characterized
by highly amplified distortion and fast
guitar solos.