Generally speaking, "light music and heavy music" are also used to distinguish the concepts of "pop music and serious music":

Pop music is commonly known as light music, which generally includes light songs and small instrumental music. , and some selections from various dance music, operas, and dance dramas. Pop music has the characteristics of short content, beautiful melody, distinctive rhythm, easy to understand, and wide range of music. Chinese pop music has given it a higher spiritual content such as life, era, world view and ideals, and has Chinese characteristics, such as "Moon on the Fifteenth", "Looking at the Starry Sky", "On the Field of Hope" and Teresa Teng's Some songs and more.

Serious music is also called "heavy music", which includes cantata, sonatas, arias, etc. As the name suggests, it has the characteristics of deep, complex and serious content, long movement, and relatively solemn style. Examples of domestic songs include "Ode to the Motherland", "Yellow River Cantata", "Long March Symphony", etc.

[Special note: "Heavy music" here does not refer to "Heavy Metal/Rock", which belongs to the category of rock music.

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