The full name of R & ampb is rhythm &；; The blues is generally translated as "rhythm complaining" or "rhythm and blues". R &； in a broad sense; B can be regarded as "black pop music", which originated from black blues music and is the basis of western pop music and rock music. Billboard magazine once defined R& B as all black music except jazz and blues can be classified as R&; B, visible R &；; How wide is the scope of B. Hip Hop and Rap, which are very popular in black music circles in recent years, both originated from R&; Save a lot of research and development expenses during research and development. Component B.

What is a house?

House is a dance music developed from disco in 1980s. This is music played by DJ in Chicago. They mixed a record of German electronic band Power Plant Orchestra with the regular rhythm of drum machine and songs of black blues, and House came into being ~ generally translated as "Shi Hao" dance music, which is the most basic form of electronic dance music, with a rhythm of 4/4 beat, drums and simple melody. There are often high-pitched female voices singing. After disco became popular, some DJs changed it and deliberately made disco less commercial. Bass and drums become deeper and often become pure music works. Even if there are singing parts, most of them are short sentences sung by female dancers, and there are often no clear lyrics. Gradually, some people added Latin (Latin), reggae (reggae originated in the West Indies), RAP or JAZZ. By the end of 1980s, House had rushed out of the underground world and became the darling of the pop charts in Chicago, new york and London.

Why is it called "house"? In other words, as long as you have simple recording equipment, you can make this kind of music at home ~House is also the most acceptable electronic music.

Cher's belief is a good example. M- people can be said to be a house group. Since the popularity of 1986, house dance music has replaced disco music.

Houses can be divided into:

Sour house is a house music that combines the sour sound of TB-303.

Deep house has a strong soul voice, also known as garage, which is quite popular. Real Mecoy, M-people and Labouche are all garage combinations.

A hard room is simply a house with a heavy rhythm and fierce.

Houses such as the progressive house have no soul singing, and pay more attention to melody and music arrangement. It's a bit like "playing" chamber music, just like SASH! This is my life album, and it's a good progress house album.

Epic House is an epic house. Epic House has a beautiful and smooth melody and great momentum, and there are few voices in it (almost none! ). BT's music is a great epic otaku, and he is also called "epic otaku". In fact, even rock has "epic rock".

Trible House imagine: what is a house with African primitive characteristics or Indian drums? This is Tribble House ~ This kind of house not only has the stable rhythm of ordinary houses, but also adds some fragmentary drums with original characteristics between beats. It's interesting ~ however, the scope of the house is too wide, and a song doesn't need to be classified. These just tell you that there are many kinds of houses.

By the 1990s, House had reduced avant-garde and trendy colors, but it was still very popular music.

What is Britpop?

Although BritPop has the word "Pop", it is actually a kind of rock, which originated in Britain in the 1990s. Chinese can be translated as "British Rock", which is a response of the British music industry to the American junk rock tide, mainly in the form of bands. However, the styles of BritPop are actually very extensive. For example, Oasis is a guitar rock band, Blur has many POPs, and Pulp is close to Glam Rook and dance style, but they all belong to Britpop.

Representatives of British pop: Oasis, Fuzzy, Suede, Pulp, Radio Commander.

What is jumping?

Trip-Hop is an English/European dance music. Its name comes from "trip+hip-hop = trip-hop". Because it originated in Bristol, England, it was originally called "Bristol Hip-hop". Because hip-hop (in fact, a lot of music is based on hip-hop ... I don't know what hip-hop is. Most people who watch hip-hop dance follow hip-hop music. ) Slow down (sometimes very slowly) and add some psychedelic flavor, such as gloomy and heavy bass, slight but psychedelic synthetic sound effects, or sample some records, and sometimes even the noise of records will be "deliberately" sampled. The so-called "trip" refers to a psychedelic and dense drug trip. So Trip-Hop is a kind of adagio psychedelic, jazz-like, chaotic beat music with a little hip-hop rhythm. Although it belongs to the category of dance music, its psychedelic and chaotic characteristics have made it far away from all the clear beat characteristics of general dance music.

Representative figures of Trip-Hop abroad: ortishead, Tricky, Massive Attack, Mandalay Moloko, Coldcut, recognized in Trip-Hop.

What is gangster rap?

Gangsta Rap is a kind of rap, which is mostly related to urban crime, full of violence and lust, and it is a music direction that reflects reality. Gangsta Rap rose in the United States in the late 1980s. The strong and sharp genre of music rap is very popular in the United States, and the record sales are very good. Many gang rap musicians themselves really "participated" in various crimes in reality, and some even went to jail or even were killed, which can be said to be a truly realistic and shocking music.

Gangster rap group: Tracy Marlowe, ice cube, Dr. Derry, Snoopy Dog, 2 Pac, Geto Boy.

What is Synth Pop?

Synth Pop's "Synth", that is, synthesizer, is "popular music concocted by synthesizers" as its name implies. Of course, computers, drums and other electronic musical instruments will be used in addition to synthesizers. Synth Pop became popular in the early 1980s, but it became silent in the mid-1980s, when there was a boom in Hong Kong. Synth Pop is characterized by a strong sense of science and technology, and sometimes it is quite cold. Most songs are "three-minute pop", and many times Synth pop musicians will dress up in fashion.

Synth Pop stands for combination: Depesh model, human alliance, Duran Duran, OMD, Gary Numan.

What is an orchestra?

The orchestra is an orchestra, divided into four groups: 1 string, including violin and cello, 2 brass, 3 woodwind and 4 percussion. Each instrument in the string group is played by many people (except the harp), and the four groups of players are coordinated and conducted by one person, who is the conductor of the orchestra. /kloc-orchestras appeared in the 0/7th century, and18th century clearly established the mode because of the works of Haydn and Mozart. /kloc-Some new musical instruments were added in the 0/9th century, and the number of orchestras also increased. Orchestral music is authentic western classical/orthodox music. Western pop/rock music often uses some or all members of the orchestra to assist in the performance.

What is chamber music?

Chamber music refers to an elegant, noble and exquisite pop music with a certain sense of classical music. The word "chamber music" comes from classical music, which is called "chamber music" in Chinese. It is an elegant and atmospheric ensemble playing style. The rise of chamber music in the 1990s was a response to LO-FI and GRUNGE at that time, emphasizing beautiful melody, exquisite soundtrack and clean recording. Strings and wind music are often used to create the musical feeling of the Baroque era.

Foreign representative bands include Divine Comedy, Rialto, Eric Matthews and Bale &; Sebastian and so on. Some are from Huang Yaoming, some are from Peng Ling, some are diversified, and so on.

What is a folk song?

Folk songs (folk songs) originally refer to the traditional songs of each nation. The ancestors of each nation have their own songs from primitive/ancient times. Most of these songs don't know who the author is, but they are passed down from generation to generation. The folk songs we are talking about today mostly refer to the folk songs in the pop music era, which are accompanied by acoustic guitars and sung in a natural and frank way, singing the simple life feelings of everyone. WOODY GUTHRIE, an American folk singer, recorded the earliest folk songs in 1950s, so she is recognized as the founder of modern folk songs. Later, pete seeger and The Weaver continued to promote this kind of music. During the Vietnam War in the 1960s, anti-war folk singers such as Bob Dylan, joan baez, Peter, Paul and Mary became the voices of the times. After the development of folk songs to pop, rock and urbanization, Bob Dylan invented folk rock, Simon &; Garfinkel has developed a middle-class urban folk pop music, which has been popular for some time. In 1980s, SUZANNE VEGA, TRACYCHAPMAN and others embarked on a more modern urban/contemporary folk song route. Folk songs (folk songs) have also developed different faces in music circles such as Britain and Hong Kong. The relatively new development of folk songs in recent years is the combination with the new era (such as ENYA) and TRIP HOP (such as Beth Orton).

What is Posanova?

Bosanova is a kind of Brazilian music with jazz flavor. /kloc-ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM, a composer in the 1950s, combined the rhythm of Brazilian music with cool jazz on the west coast of the United States, featuring softness, comfort, relaxation, laziness and romance. 1, 4, 7, 1 1, 14 beats in every two bars are all remakes. The singer JOAO GILBERTO's pure and rich voice is an excellent partner of Jopin music, which became very popular after it was introduced to the United States in the mid-1950s. Other famous Bosanova musicians include Charlie Bird, Stan Gates and Astrud Gilberto. The most famous song is The Girl from Ipanema. Osanova was the most popular in the 1960 s, and fans continued in other years.

What is classical pop music?

Classical pop refers to pop music with the flavor of classical music, and songs accompanied by strings can be classified into this category, such as ELEANORRIGBY by by the Beatles. Some works by the Australian band Crowded House can also be classified into this category. If we say classic pop, we mean classic pop music.

What is cappella?

Cappella refers to the songs without instrumental accompaniment, but all the songs sung by pure vocals are cappella. But today, cappella usually refers to the kind of multi-voice singing, and even the instrumental accompaniment is also sung by vocals. The antithesis of cappella is instrumental music, that is, pure music. Any kind of songs can be sung in the form of cappella. Hong Kong people are most familiar with cappella's song "So in Love", and Hong Kong cappella bands include Jisheng Yashi and so on.

What is world music?

World music is a vocabulary from a western perspective, which refers to non-English, American and western folk/pop music. Usually refers to the traditional music in developing or backward areas, such as Africa and South Asia. Music in some areas, such as Latin America, can be popularized into its own type. Today's world music usually refers to the mixture of improved traditional regional music and western music. King Sunnyad of Africa, Don Byron of Eastern Europe, Zhu Zheqin of China, nusrat Fathari Kahn of Pakistan, etc. Are western music fans familiar with world music musicians?

What is dream pop Music?

Dream pop music is a kind of "dreamy" pop music. It has a vague atmosphere, which is caused by the synthesizer (electronic synthesizer). It is also an important part with echo effect. The singing part is often "breath", that is, breathing heavily, and the lyrics are often poetic as a dream.

The representative bands are COCTEAU WINS, LISA GERMANO, ST. ETIENNE, THIS mortal coil, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, MAZZY STAR and DEAD CAN DANCE.

Chinese singers are headed by Faye Wong, whose masterpieces include Lost and Tick-tock.

What is the new era?

The new era is a kind of quiet, comfortable and leisurely music. Pure music works account for a large proportion, while singing accounts for less. The new era can be purely acoustic (that is, played with traditional spontaneous acoustic instruments) or very electronic. The key point is to create a calm atmosphere of nature or a feeling of the vastness of the universe, to wash the listener's mind and make people calm. The new era is often related to music therapy. A lot of new age music says that it can cure diseases, and many of them are related to meditation, which has a lot to do with new age philosophy. New age music is usually regarded as middle class music. Windham Hill is the most representative new era record company. The musicians represented in the new era are ENYA, george winston, wilhelm ackermann, Yani and Chittaro.

What is electronic music?

What is electronic music? With the evolution of the times, musicians have more ways to create music. The so-called electronic music is to make music with electronic sounds generated by electronic synthesizers, music software and computers. Electronic music has a wide range and can often be heard around life. Film soundtrack, advertising soundtrack, and even some mandarin pop songs are used, but electronic dance music is the most important. Many people think that electronic music is a kind of heartless music. In fact, electronic music can also be integrated into many elements such as rock, jazz and even blues, which is full of emotion.

There are various types of electronic music, including house, electronic music, environment, trance, mental trance, Breakbeat, Brit-Hop, Big-Beat, Trip-Hop, drum "n" bass, jazz, electronics, dubbing, calmness and minimalism.

What is Techno?

Technology is "high-tech dance music"! Using computers and synthesizers to make some special sound effects, this kind of music is often a combination of many sound effects. Techno's beat is also 4/4 beat, but it is faster than House's, and it sounds repetitive, tough and mechanized, so some people call Techno "industrial noise", but others still pay attention to melody. Techno originated in Detroit, USA. There are three DJs: Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson Juan Atkins. They tried to combine electronic music with black music to produce Detroit Techno. Detroit Techno is usually mild, not as strong as ordinary Techno, which can be said to be the origin of modern Techno.

What is the environment?

It doesn't sound like much ups and downs, but it is actually changing all the time. For example, long-term sound effects or gradual music arrangement often create a layered sense of space, so it is called "situational music", which often samples the sounds around life, such as human voices, car sounds and even the melodies of other music. This is a kind of "profound" electronic music created by Brian Eno in 1970s. Later, Ambient also had branches, such as Ambient House, Ambient Techno…… and so on. I believe you can literally understand that many kinds of music have the shadow of Ambient, and even some classical music has the flavor of Ambient.

What is trance?

Psychedelic dance music, evolved from Techno, will make you feel "trance" after listening to it, but it still retains the rhythm of dance music, attaches great importance to the performance of bass, and some will have a "hypnotic" effect after listening to it. The beat is also dominated by 4/4 beats. But I've also heard of breaking beat, such as Sven Vath's album Fusion.

What is a psychological trance?

Also known as Goa trance, it originated from an island in India. Goa is the name of this island. Melody usually has an Indian flavor. This trance state is characterized by attaching great importance to the subtle changes between melody and notes, and there are often melody overlaps and treble TB-303 sounds. A little environment.

What is a Break beat?

Unlike House's boom-boom-boom, it is presented in a broken beat, just like the syncopated beat. For example, two beats plus drums, etc., Breakbeat is just a general term, and there are many kinds of music belonging to Breakbeat, such as Brit-Hop, Big-Beat and black Hip-Hop below.

What is Brit-Hop?

The rhythm of black hip-hop is accelerated and the drums are aggravated. With some electric guitars and bass, it has the flavor of rock music, such as the style of the Chemical Brothers.

What is Big-Beat?

"Big beat" makes Brit-Hop faster, more rhythmic and more rock and roll. It can be said that it is a more mature style after the improvement of Brit-Hop. You can imagine what a heavy, broken and somewhat fast beat looks like. For example, Extraordinary Orchestra, Chemical Brothers Orchestra and Fat Slim are the "big speakers" of Big Beat.

What is drum bass?

For some people, the music of the drum N'' Bass may be boring, because the drum N'' Bass attaches great importance to playing tricks on the rhythm, as well as the expression of bass, such as the fast and complicated beat and the use of various electronic drums or sampling drums. So drumming bass is also a kind of break dance. 4Hero is a famous drum band.

What is a jungle?

The jungle is the predecessor of drum Bass. Jungle is much faster than Drum N'' Bass, and the beat is more complex and powerful, sometimes with a little Rap. Unlike Drum N'' Bass, which combines some elements such as jazz and soul music, it sounds softer (of course, this is compared with Jungle). Even David Bowie, the "rock chameleon", has now set foot in the jungle.

What is an electron?

As early as the late 1970s and early 1980s, there were no such things as House and techno, and electronic music was not so popular, only electronic music such as electro. Electronics can be said to be music produced by an electronic synthesizer (which looks a bit like a keyboard). Generally, it is quite soft. TR-808, a drum machine made by Roland Company, is often used to make drums. The German Power Plant Orchestra can be regarded as a representative. Now the electric timbre is much brighter and more transparent than before. Later, some DJs turned into a kind of hip-hop music through electronic music, which was called old-school music. Now Fatboy Slim (Streamline Fat Boy) also combines some electronic sounds and the old school in music.

What is Dub?

Dub can be said to be reggae (reggae, also called reggae, is a kind of South American black music with a very rhythmic sense and a special singing style). The application of Dub in electronic music is to take away some songs, emphasize bass and drums, and add many Echo effects. This technology often mixes songs during live performances. Albums like Attack, Protect are remixed into dubbing versions by the Trip-Hop music of Crazy Professor.

What is calm?

This is just a general statement. Next to the dance floor, there is always an area, or a small room, in which some soft and calm music will be put, so that dancers can relax after dancing, mainly playing ambient music, so it is called "Chill Out". Baozhu can be said to be a master of calm music.

What is minimalism?

This is translated into "minimalism" and is often heard in the music of Ambient and Techno. Minimalist music, with repetitive melody and special rhythm, feels like a special frequency, which makes you feel hypnotized. Jeff Mills' works belong to the minimalist Detroit -Techno, which is quite psychedelic.

Ferrous metal ferrous metal

With evil, pagan worship and Satan's thoughts as the main demands, lyrics are usually classified as black metal because they contain anti-Christian and anti-religious tendencies. In addition to the traditional heavy metal fixed instruments, other instruments such as piano, violin or opera soprano are often used to create a strange and scary atmosphere in songs. "Black metal" is represented by heavy metal groups in Northern Europe.

On behalf of the band: Emperor, Injury, Slavery, Dark Funeral.

Death metal

This music style evolved from the background of "thrash metal" or "grinding the core". The rapid repetition of the electric guitar, several melodious chords, the double drums that are trampled quickly, and the humming of the lead singer gnashing her teeth. The lyrics are based on the theme of death and hatred, and are full of abnormal words such as corpse, viscera, dismemberment, * corpse, necrophilia, cannibalism and abuse. The representative of "Death Metal" is the heavy metal band in Florida.

Representative zones: death, corpse, cannibal corpse, suffocation.

Destroy destroy metal

The rhythm and speed are very slow, very slow. Less intense, less aggressive, but still quite weighty music. There are usually very clean music and songs, but sometimes there are rough and savage voices.

Representative bands: Lonely Angel, Cathedral, Candle Festival.

Gorgeous metal

Usually refers to the stage performance or external image of a heavy metal band, which attracts fans with exaggerated heavy makeup or handsome appearance. Most of these bands are idol groups. The musical style of Gorgeous Metal is not too heavy, and the lyrics have no deep meaning. It belongs to popular heavy metal music and is a branch of mainstream metal.

Representative orchestras: Kiss, Poison, Warrant, Twisted Sister, Motley Crue.

Grinding core

Similar to "punk" but heavy music, the lead singer's low voice and low roar, the super-spicy timbre of electric guitar, coupled with extremely fast repetitive beats and dense drums, constitute a heavy metal music style with few melodies, and the music length is very short, ranging from two seconds to three minutes. "grindcore" is a rare heavy metal music style, which is adopted by most "Death Metal" bands.

Representative band: Napalm Death

Garbage (decadent? )

The pronoun of alternative rock. Metal-like alternative rock, which originated in Seattle, belongs to alternative rock and should not be classified as heavy metal.

Representative bands: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Mud Honey, Chain Alice.

Iron iron

Originated from "punk", the lyrics are outspoken and vulgar, and the music is like noise.

Hard rock and heavy rock.

Music that is lighter than metal music.

Representative bands: foreigner, blue oyster cult, heart, Cinderella.

Heavy metal heavy metal

"Heavy metal" must have a roaring or high-pitched voice, a lot of distorted timbre of electric guitar, and then fill the whole auditory background space with dense and fast drums and deep and powerful bass, thus forming improved rock music with high explosive power, high speed, heavy weight and strong destructiveness. Usually refers to the traditional mainstream heavy metal or heavy metal music that cannot be classified into other heavy metal genres.

Representative bands: AC/DC, Accept, Judas Pastor, Iron Lady, W.A.S.P

Industrial metal

Using a large number of cold computer sampling sound effects, interspersed with the impact of mechanical or metal instruments instead of traditional percussion instruments, plus electronic beats, is very similar to the heavy metal music of technical dance music, but still retains a large number of heavy metal distortion effects.

Representative band: Nine Inch Nails Fear Factory.

Neoclassical metals

Deeply influenced by classical music, heavy metal music has added a lot of classical music elements.

Representative band: Angra

pop metal

Adding pop music elements to heavy metal rock can be said to be a compromise product of heavy metal rock and pop music, which is easily accepted by music consumers in the mainstream market.

Representative bands: Def Leppard, Mr. Big Man and White Lion.

power metal

It has a sense of oppression similar to the speed of "speed metal" and the weight of "whipping metal", but the melody is not as good as "speed metal" and the explosive power is not as good as "whipping metal".

Representative bands: Pantera, Real Saints and Wild Dogs.

progressive metal

Style is different from traditional heavy metals. A lot of complicated and gorgeous arrangements are used in the songs, or some progressive ideas are conveyed in the lyrics for the listeners to imagine and think.

Representative bands: Queensryche, Destiny Warning, Dream Theater.

Punk punk

Lyrics convey some rebellious thoughts and dissatisfaction with living environment, culture, society and politics, but music lacks coordination and has no specific style. This is a rather noisy music. Usually a group of people who can make instrumental sounds can form a punk band.

Representative band: sex pistol Clash

Speed metal speed metal

Speed is its main feature. It is often confused with "whipping metal". Usually, the music of "speed metal" is melodious, the lead singer's lyrics are clear, and the guitar interlude is melodious, fast and smooth; However, thrash metal lacks melody and pays equal attention to speed, weight, oppression and destructive power. Usually, musicians of "Whip Metal" and "Speed Metal" have excellent musical instrument playing skills.

Representative bands: Helloewen, Gamma Ray, Riot, Rage.

Whip metal. Whip metal.

It is also extremely fast, with a fairly fast repetitive beat (riff). The rough timbre of electric guitar brushes wild chords, and stepping on double drums quickly is extremely destructive and oppressive. The lead singer's rough, growling voice is matched with the fast rhythm of the electric guitar to quickly sing some Kubinashi melodies. Whipping Metal is the most representative heavy metal band in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Representative bands: Metal Band, Megades Band, Slayer Band, Anthrax, Angel of Death Band, Wills Band, Exodus Band, Destruction Band, Founder Band, Coroner Band, Overkill Band.