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Renaissance music is vocal and instrumental music written and performed in Europe. Renaissance, music became a vehicle for personal expression. Composers found ways to make vocal music more expressive of the texts they were setting. -
Baroque music is a style of Western art music. Composers and performers used more elaborate musical ornamentation, made changes in musical notation, and developed new instrumental playing techniques. -
Latin American music is the term used when referring to music from the Spanish or Portuguese speaking countries of Mexico most of Central and South America and the Caribbean islands. These countries were once part of the Spanish and Portuguese empires. -
Conventional music following long-established principles rather than a folk, jazz, or popular tradition. -
Gospel is the teaching or revelation of Christ and the record of Jesus' life and teaching in the first four books of the New Testament. -
Freedom of form and design. Song-like melodies (lyrical), as well as many chromatic harmonies and discords. Dramatic contrasts of dynamics and pitch. Big orchestras due mainly to brass and the invention of the valve. -
Boogie-woogie is a style of blues music usually played on the piano that is closely related to jazz forms such as ragtime and stride piano. -
Ragtime is rhythm characterized by strong syncopation in the melody with a regularly accented accompaniment in stride-piano style and music having ragtime rhythm. -
Country is a form of popular music originating in the rural southern US. It is traditionally a mixture of ballads and dance tunes played characteristically on fiddle, guitar, steel guitar, drums, and keyboard. -
Broad style of music characterized by harmony, rhythm, and improvisation. Black musicians in New Orleans, Louisiana developed the jazz style. -
Rhythm & Blues Music.
Comes from African American culture and is usually soulful and moving. -
Started in African American gospel singing and is closely related to R & B music. -
Pop music is the genre of popular music that produces the most hits. Pop music is the genre of popular music that produces the most hits. -
Rock n Roll is popular music usually played on electronically amplified instruments and characterized by a persistent heavily accented beat, repetition of simple phrases, and often country, folk, and blues elements. -
Blues is an African-American music that traverses a wide range of emotions and musical styles. But blues is also a raucous dance music that celebrates pleasure and success. -
Funk music is dance music that mixes rhythm and blues music with soul music. Funk bands use many rhythm instruments such as electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, and keyboard instruments, mainly synthesizers and electronic organs. -
Reggae is based on ska, an earlier form of Jamaican popular music and employs a heavy four-beat rhythm driven by drums, bass guitar, electric guitar, and the scraper a corrugated stick that is rubbed by a plain stick. -
Hip Hop music commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.