3. • Is created by humans, performed by one or
more singers.
• It’s without musical accompaniment, it has
lyrics.
The vocal
genre…
• So music without any non-vocal instrumental
accompaniment is refered to as a cappella.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf50yrvXYVE
Song:
An example of
vocal genre is a
choir.
4. This genre is any music that is reproduced with
instruments, without lyrics.
There are two types of instrumental genre.
Pure music: this genre is
music that is composed to be
played as music.
Descriptive music: is the music
that has like objective to
represent extra-musical ideas or
images in the listener mind,
representing musically a scene,
image…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFzXUqzvAFI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l0N0z4cdvg
5. This genre is a combination of voices and
instruments. There are lots of categories such as:
pop, rock, country, flemish…
• It evolved from the rock and roll in combination
with other genres.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC06BV0XNsI
POP
• It’s a very marked rhythm musical genre.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPGbvv4IhNU
ROCK
6. It has been created for ceremonies or cults. In some
places this genre is inspired in the Catholicism.
LITURGICAL
NON-
LITURGICAL
It refers to the form of
musical expression created
in Europe in the Middle
Ages and it developed as
part of the Christian rites of
the moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=vlNbIGW2yeo
This music is composed with
religious purpose, but it isn’t
part of the liturgy
7. Is all the music conceived to be performed or singed out of the liturgical or
non-liturgical contexts. It’s a musical category that is defined negatively in
the sense that it’s the opposite to that music category which belongs to
sacred music.
Popular music
can be classified
into
Folk music: it includes both,
traditional music and the genre
that evolved from it during the
folk revival of the 20th century.
Some types of traditional music
are also called ‘world music’.
Light music: is a generic term
applied to a mainly British musical
style of ‘light’ orchestral music, which
was originated in the 19th century
and continues until the present day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP0utPv620c
Cultured music: also serious
music, as opposed to popular
music, refers to those kinds of
music which are developed,
complex and advanced.
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8. This music refers to an important
ceremony or event, it’s effect is used with a
purpose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-esuBQefOg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6VhDhm2WRA
9. Refers to the method based on similarities in the
narrative elemenrs from which films are
constructed. Most theories of film genre are
borrowed from literary genre criticism. Besides the
basic distinction in genre between fiction and
documentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqGd7qkfqgQ
For example:
10. It’s used in artistic expressions on stage such as in
theatres, operas, etc. It can be:
Comedy: generally, it’s a play about ordinary people, written in a
style that is amusing, or at least ageeable, and has a happy ending.
Tragedy: is a play that recounts the ordeals and death of a person of
high rank who confronts a situation from which there is absolutely
no escape, often because he or she has made some serious
transgression.
Drama: portrays characters who desires into conflict with powerful
forces like the past and social conventions, the pysche or a society’s
economic, social and political fabric.
11. The slogan of a brand is od paramount
importance, since in a phrase must
summarize the whole purpose of the
enterprise in a clear way, concise and able
to reach all their target audiences. Often, to
reinforce that message, in publicity (or
advertising) they se a melody
corresponding to a soundtrack or a real
song. Although there is a risk to downplay
the message or publicity product, it has
recently increased the use of recognizable
songs used to accompany and reinforce ads
of products and/or services of various
kinds.
https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=lxV8J4_Wvc
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