It is a music form that combines black rhythm and blues with white country music, and is mainly composed of guitar, bass and drums.

2. popular

Pop music refers to instrumental music and songs with short structure, popular content, lively form and sincere feelings, which are loved by the broad masses, widely sung or appreciated, and even spread to future generations. These music and songs are rooted in the fertile soil of public life. Therefore, it is also called "pop music".

Pop music originated from American jazz. At the beginning of the 20th century, a kind of jazz composed of multi-ethnic cultures appeared in America. This new music, with its unique way of playing (singing), refreshed the audience's eyes and ears, caused a sensation in the United States and soon spread all over Western Europe.

Step 3 jazz

Jazz was formed at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century. Among many popular music, jazz is the first music that has a wide influence in the world. Jazz is actually American folk music.

European church music, American black violin and banjo traditional music combined with African singing and American black labor horn to form the original "folk blues", while "ragtime" and "folk blues" formed early jazz. Jazz singing forms a unique jazz singing method by using meaningless "lines" under improvisational rules. The syncopation rhythm of jazz is complex and diverse, especially the continuous syncopation across bars often shifts the whole bar of the original rhythm, resulting in an erratic sense of wandering.

4. Folk songs

As a form of national singing, national singing has two main sources: one is the repertoire adapted from ancient traditional folk songs; The other is a folk song created according to the traditional folk song style. Regardless of the tendency, the characteristics of traditional ballads remain in singing.

Singing pays little attention to vocal skills, mainly natural sounds; Because the melody of folk songs is relatively stable, this determines the characteristics of folk songs. At the same time, the themes of folk songs are mostly narrative themes, just like the tone of dialogue between them, which also determines that folk songs cannot be sung loudly.

There is a concept that can't be mixed. Shallow singing does not mean laziness and weakness. The voice should be positive, the breath should be more natural and smooth, but the tone should not be exaggerated. Just like talking, exaggerated tone rarely appears in real life.

5. Light music (pure music, new century)

There are many kinds of light music, including ordinary life songs, lyric songs, humorous songs and satirical songs, as well as some operettas, waltzes, small orchestral overtures and serenades, as well as some orchestral sketches, movie songs and dance music. Compared with other music forms, the style and characteristics of light music are more vivid and interesting, especially its melodies are particularly beautiful.

Some symphonies, orchestras, choruses and other works often rely on harmony, orchestration, polyphony and other technical means, while light music relies on the beauty of melody.

Therefore, light music requires more beautiful and brisk tunes than other music forms. A lyric song should be elegant and euphemistic; A waltz should have a clear rhythm and melodious tone, a humorous song should give people a happy infection, and a satirical song should be spicy and sharp. The unique performance characteristics of these light music have formed their own style.

6. Classical music

Classical music refers to music created under the background of European cultural traditions from the Baroque period (1600- 1750) to the early 20th century. It is different from pop music and national music and has eternal significance. The word "classical" itself contains the concepts of balance, moderation, conciseness and exquisiteness.

Sonata form is the most typical feature of classical music. The characteristics of classical music are: the melody is smooth, rejecting complex opposing techniques, making the melody sound more lubricated; The accompaniment part is usually very light, usually playing a fixed pattern or playing slowly in the bass, and never usurping the role of the host in the melody.

7. Folk music

Folk music refers to national music. Chinese folk music refers to traditional folk music played by Chinese traditional musical instruments in the form of solo and ensemble. China has a long history of national instrumental music. From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, blowing sheng, hammering, drumming, percussion and playing the piano were popular among the people. At that time, Qin musicians such as Shi Juanhe appeared, as well as the famous piano music "Mountain" and "Running Water".

Percussion music in Qin and Han dynasties, commercial music in Wei and Jin dynasties, pipa music in Sui and Tang dynasties, fine music and pure music in Song dynasty, top ten gongs and drums and strings in Yuan and Ming dynasties, etc. , there are various forms of performance. Modern genres and forms are the inheritance and development of traditional forms.