The genres of music

Minggu, 10 Juni 2012

The genres of music

Music has many types or genres. Music is one of the arts whose medium is sounds and silence. Moreover, another definition of it is the science of combing sound in an artful manner that's pleasing to the ear and stimulating to the emotions. It can be divided into many types. Firstly, traditional music, it is a music which born in certain area and mostly following by traditional instrument. Moreover, it has unique lyric and melody which taken by the language from the local area itself. Secondly, metal music is one of the music which has been known to all over the world. This kind of music is lyrically about self-expression, frustration and rebellion of young generation which followed by the hard rhythm. However, this era metal music has many types or genres, such as, death metal, doom metal, folk metal, glam metal, heavy metal, industrial metal, metal core, neoclassical metal, nu metal, power metal and progressive metal. Thirdly, country music, it is the traditional country music influenced by blues and it is growing of white American culture, especially in the city of Nashville. Some of the early country artist Merle Haggard and Buck is Owens. Moreover, the most popular this day is Taylor swift. Next, classical music, in its original sense classical music is a musical composition that was born of European culture around A.D 1750-1825. Furthermore, it is usually classified by a certain periodicity which ranging from the classical period that followed by the baroque, Rococo, and romantic. In this era appear the big names like Bach, Mozart, or Haydn who’s produced works of sonatas, symphonies, solo concertos, string quartets, to the opera. In fact, the classical composers are never classifying the type of their creation. Therefore, the classification that we know right now is only to make easy especially for the academic interest. Finally, the last one is popular music or pop music. It is the one of genre of music which may become the most popular then the others type of it. Many people like it due to its easy listening and has commercial lyric and suitable for all ages. it is also became the reason why Music Television(MTV) was created. In brief, the type of music has been classified due to its melody and rhythm. Moreover, with the different streams of music, people can be more expressive to choose what type of music they prefer according to their personality.

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