Field of Science: (Musicology)


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  • A cappella - any singing performed without instrumental backing
  • Acid Jazz - a combination of jazz,funk,and hip hop
  • Acid Rock
  • Acoustic Music - a music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means.
  • Afrobeat - a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, and funk rhythms, fused with percussion and vocal styles, popularized in Africa in the 1970s.

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  • Apala
  • Arabesque - A versatile collection of music fusing eastern folk music, Arab classical music and various other genres
  • Argentine rock
  • Ars antiqua - music of Europe of the late Middle Ages between approximately 1170 and 1310
  • Ars nova - music of the Late Middle Ages, centered in France, which encompassed the period roughly from 1310 to 1314
  • Art rock - rock music that tends to have "experimental or avant-garde influences" and emphasizes "novel sonic texture.
  • Ashiq - Azeri bards who sing and accompany themselves on a saz (a kind of lute)
  • Australian country music (see also Country music)
  • Australian pub rock
  • Australian hip hop
  • Australian humour
  • Avant-garde jazz - sounds very similar to free jazz, but differs in that, despite its distinct departure from traditional harmony, it has a predetermined structure over which improvisation may take place.
  • Avant-garde metal - a subgenre of heavy metal music characterised by the use of innovative, avant-garde elements, large-scale experimentation, and the use of non-standard sounds, instruments, and song structures.
  • Avant-garde music - used at different times to mean different kinds of music (usually art music) considered ahead of their time and containing new, unusual, or experimental ideas or elements or fusing different genres.
  • Avant-punk
  • Axé - pop music from Salvador, Bahia

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  • Bachata - originated in the countryside and the rural neighborhoods of the Dominican Republic. Its subjects are often romantical; especially prevalent are tales of heartbreak and sadness.
  • Baggy
  • Baião - a Northeast Brazilian rhythmic formula that became the basis of a wide range of music.

Bajo la- upbeat,hard-edged,Rnb and tejano, many instruments are guitar, piano,spanish drum,etc. It is basically rock,rnb,blues,opera,pop,tejano,and jazz music. put together. influenced by reggae and beatboxing.


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  • Beach music - a regional genre which developed from various musical styles of the forties, fifties and sixties. These styles ranged from big band swing instrumentals to the more raucous sounds of blues/jump blues, jazz, doo-wop, boogie, rhythm and blues, reggae, rockabilly and old-time rock and roll.
  • Beat - a fusion of rock and roll, doo wop, skiffle, R&B and soul. Beat groups characteristically had simple guitar-dominated line-ups, with vocal harmonies and catchy tunes.
  • Beatboxing - Music performed by producing percussive and melodic sounds with the mouth alone, often mimicking instruments, recorded samples and other sounds not typically associated with vocalization.
  • Bebop - 1940s jazz style with complex improvisation and a fast tempo
  • Beiguan - Taiwanese instrumental music
  • Bel canto - Italian vocal style which arose in the late 16th century and which ended in the mid-19th century
  • Bend-skin - a kind of urban Cameroonian popular music.
  • Benga - a genre of Kenyan popular music
  • Bhajan - a Hindu religious song
  • Bhangra - originally Punjabi dance music
  • Bhangra-wine
  • Bhangragga
  • Bhangramuffin

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  • Brass band - a musical group generally consisting entirely of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.
  • Brazilian funk
  • Brazilian jazz - bossa nova and samba mixed with American jazz
  • Breakbeat - a collection of sub-genres of electronic music, usually characterized by the use of a non-straightened 4/4 drum pattern (as opposed to the steady beat of house or trance). These rhythms may be characterised by their intensive use of syncopation and polyrhythms.
  • Breakbeat hardcore - a derivate of acid house that combines 4-to-the-floor rhythms with breakbeats, and is associated with UK Rave scene.
  • Breakcore - an electronic music style that brings together elements of industrial, jungle, hardcore techno and IDM into a breakbeat-oriented sound that encourages speed, complexity, impact and maximum sonic density. It adheres to a loose set of stylistic rules.
  • Brill Building Pop - named after New York's Brill Building at 1619 Broadway
  • Britfunk
  • Britpop
  • British blues
  • British Invasion - rock and roll, beat and pop performers from the United Kingdom who became popular in the United States from 1964 to 1966.
  • Broken beat - an electronic music genre which can be characterized by syncopated rhythm typically in 4/4 metre, with staggered or punctuated snare beats and/or hand claps.
  • Brown-eyed soul - a subgenre of soul music or rhythm and blues created in the United States mainly by Latinos in Southern California during the 1960s, continuing through to the early 1980s.
  • Brukdown - rural Belizean Kriol music
  • Bubblegum dance
  • Bubblegum pop - sometimes synonymous with pop music, especially that performed by teen idols; can also refer to specific styles of South African or Japanese pop
  • Bikutsi
  • Bulerias
  • Bumba-meu-boi
  • Bunraku - Japanese style originated from a kind of puppet-theater.
  • Burger-highlife
  • Burgundian School...

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