Music - Musical Styles - Appendix C

Western Classical Tradition

Not related to pop music and has developed over many centuries in Western countries

Baroque

1600-1750

Classical

1750-1820

Romantic

1820-1900

Chamber music

Music using a small group of musicians, with one player to a part.

Jazz

A style of dance music popular in the 1920s

Blues

style of music evolving from African American spirituals and noted for its melancholy sound

Musical Theatre

A type of entertainment containing music, songs, and, usually, dance.

Welsh folk music

Classic welsh music

Cerdd dant

Harp and voice

Film music

music accompanying a film

rock

Loud, harsh and metallic music

Soul

It originated in the African American community throughout the United States in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Hip-hop

music that combines spoken street dialect with cuts (or samples) from older records and bears the influences of social politics, male boasting, and comic lyrics carried forward from blues, R&B, soul, and rock and roll

Reggae

A style of music that developed in Jamaica in the 1960s and is rooted in African, Caribbean, and American music, often dealing with social problems and religion.

Ballad

A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas

Pop

Popular radio music

Fusion music

One genre of music from one part of the world combined with music from another part of the world

Minimalism music

A musical style that evolved in the late 20th century.

Characterized by the repetition of melodic, rhythmic and harmonic patterns with little variation