musical genre

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Noun

musical genre - an expressive style of music

music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner

African-American music, black music - music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses

classical, classical music, serious music - traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste

crossover - the appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience; "a jazz-classical crossover album"

church music, religious music - genre of music composed for performance as part of religious ceremonies

marching music, march - genre of music written for marching; "Sousa wrote the best marches"

popular music, popular music genre - any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)

expressive style, style - a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"

References in periodicals archive ?

Each of the bands offered a new sound in their respective musical genre, be it pop or rock and excelled at it.

Pepsi Battle of the Bands all set to launch season four

BeingLatino.me commended Gio Bravo for courageously and "directly combating a musical genre that is rife with machismo."

SMASHING MACHISMO WITH HIS SONG

MOTOWN THE MUSICAL EVENING SHOW 2 DAYS BY COACH ONLY PS139 Departing on Saturday 17 Nov ever a musical genre lent itself to theatre, was the mass harmonics and wall-of-sound dramatics of Motown.

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This may help explain why pansori, a traditional Korean narrative musical genre, blends so well with reggae, a Jamaica-originated musical genre drawing on its own local traditions.

Kim Yul-hee blends pansori, reggae

The night will also feature songs in the Muwashahat style, an Arabic poetic form and a secular musical genre with connotations of spirituality.

Emirati Music Series returns with Year of Zayed

The Anthology is searchable through the use of pull-down search menus by 'period', 'musical genre', 'composer', and 'title'.

A-R Editions Online Music Anthology

Drawing from an array of theoretical literature, Govind resists fixed notions of musical genre, South Asian identity, and race to map the complex networks that Indian American musicians have developed in post-9/11 America.

In this inaugural year, two fellows were selected to receive the Marjorie Morgan Lowens Dissertation Fellowship: Hye-Jung Park and Arathi Govind

Blue and Red Make Purple included educational "notes" (get it?) about the history, instruments, and special characteristics of each showcased musical genre. Blue and Red Make Purple is a joy for music-loving parents and children to share, highly recommended.

Blue and Red Make Purple: A Musical Journey with Jennifer Gasoi

Alejandro Madrid, a recognized researcher on Mexican music history, and Robin Moore, with excellent previous books on Cuban music, have joined forces to produce a book on a musical genre that originated in Cuba but that is danced more in Mexico than anywhere else.

Alejandro L. Madrid & Robin D. Moore: Danzon: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance

SINGER Van Morrison says he is not a fan of the modern incarnation of the musical genre that inspired his career, dismissing today's R&B as "terrible" and "robotic".

Van: R&B is just 'robotic'

The author traces the development of the form and content of the national song, analyzing the reasons for its boom, particularly focusing on the popularity of the musical genre in the context of the Arab Spring.