R& B's full name is rhythm &; Blues, generally translated as "Rhythm Complaint" or "Rhythm Blues". In a broad sense, R&; 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 means that all black music except Jazz and Blues can be classified as R&; B, visible R&; How extensive the scope of B is. Hip Hop and Rap, which are very popular in black music circles in recent years, both originated from R&; B, and at the R& time save a lot of r&; Component B.
what is HOUSE?
HOUSE is a dance music developed from DISCO in 198s. This is the music played by DJ in Chicago. They mixed a record of the German electronic band Kraftwerk with the regular rhythm of the Drum Machine and the songs of black blues, and House came into being ~ generally translated as "Haoshi" dance music, which is the most basic form of electronic dance music, with a rhythm of 4/4 beats, a drum beat and a simple melody. There are often high-pitched female voices singing. After DISCO became popular, some DJs changed it and deliberately made DISCO less commercialized. BASS and drums became deeper and deeper, and many times they became pure music works. Even if there were singing parts, most of them were short sentences sung by female dancers, often without clear lyrics. Gradually, some people added LATIN (Latin), REGGAE (Reggae originated in the West Indies), RAP (Rap) or JAZZ (Jazz) and other elements. By the late 198s, HOUSE had rushed out of the underground and became the darling of the pop charts in Chicago, new york and London.
why is it called "House"? That is to say, as long as you have simple recording equipment, you can make this kind of music at home ~House is also the most easily accepted by everyone in electronic music.
Believe sung by p>Cher is a good example. M-People can be said to be a House representative group. After House dance music became popular in 1986, It can be said that it has replaced Disco music.
House can be divided into:
Acid House, that is, house music with TB-33 acid sound
Deep House has a very strong soul singing voice, also known as Garage, which is quite popular. Like Real Mecoy, M-People, La Bouche is a Garage group.
Hard House is simply a House with heavy rhythm and fierceness.
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Progressive House have no soul singing, but pay more attention to melody and music arrangement. It is a bit like "playing" house music. Like SASH! The album It\'s My Life is a good Progressive House album.
Epic House is an "epic" House. Epic House has a beautiful, smooth melody and majestic momentum, and rarely has vocal in it (almost none! ). BT's music is a great Epic House, and he is also called "Epic House Emperor". In fact, even Rock has "Epic Rock"
Trible House. Imagine: What is a house with African original features or Indian drums? This is the Tribble House ~ This kind of House not only has the stable rhythm of the general House, but also adds some fragmentary drums with original features between beats. It's quite interesting ~ However, the scope of the House is too wide, so you don't have to classify a piece of music. These are just to tell you that there are many kinds of houses.
by the 199s, HOUSE had reduced its avant-garde and trendy colors, but it was still very popular music.
what is Britpop?
although p>BritPop has the word "pop", it is actually a kind of Rock, which originated in Britain in the 199s. Chinese can be translated as "British rock", which is a response of British music circles to the American Grunge tide, mainly in the form of bands. However, BritPop styles are actually very extensive, such as Oasis is a guitar rock band, Blur has a lot of pop, and Pulp is close to Glam Rook and dance style, but they are all classified as Britpop.
representatives of British Britpop: Oasis, Blur, Suede, Pulp, Radiohead
what is Trip-Hop?
Trip-Hop is a kind of British/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 of the Hip-Hop (in fact, a lot of music is based on Hip-Hop ... I don't know what Hip-Hop is to see the people who dance Hip-Hop, most of them dance with hip-hop music. ) Slow down the rhythm (sometimes very slow) and add some psychedelic flavor, such as gloomy and thick Bass, slight but psychedelic synthetic sound effects, or sampling some records, and sometimes even the noise of records will be "deliberately" sampled. The so-called "Trip" refers to the psychedelic and dense drug journey. Therefore, Trip-Hop is a kind of slow-board psychedelic, Jazz-like, confused Break beat music with a little Hip-Hop rhythm. Although it belongs to the dance music category, its psychedelic and confused characteristics have made it far from all the clear beat characteristics of general dance music.
representative figures of foreign Trip-Hop: ortishead, Tricky, Massive Attack, Mandalay Moloko, Coldcut
What is Gangsta Rap?
Gangsta Rap is a kind of Rap, and its content is mostly related to urban crimes, full of violence and lust, which is a musical direction reflecting reality. Gangsta Rap rose in the United States in the late 198 s, and the strong and sharp school of music Rap was very popular in the United States, and its records sold very well. Many Gangsta Rap musicians themselves really "participate" in various crimes in reality, and some of them are even imprisoned or even killed, which can be said to be a truly realistic and shocking kind of music.
Gangsta Rap table combination: Ice-T, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, 2 Pac, Geto Boys
what is Synth Pop?
the "Synth" in Synth Pop is the Synthesizer. As the name implies, synth pop is "pop music concocted by Sythesizrs". Of course, other electronic instruments such as computers and drums will be used in addition to synthers. Synth Pop became popular in the early 198s, but it began to be silent in the mid-198s, and there was a craze in Hong Kong that year. Synth Pop is characterized by a strong sense of science and technology, and sometimes it is quite cold. The songs are mostly "3-minutes Pop", and many times Synth Pop musicians will dress up in fashion.
Synth Pop stands for combination: echelon mode, Human League, Duran Duran, OMD, Gary Numan
what is ORCHESTRA?
ORCHESTRA is an orchestra, which is 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 led by one person, who is the conductor of the orchestra. ORCHESTRA appeared in the 17th century, and its model was clearly established in the 18th century by the works of Haydn and Mozart. In the 19th century, some new musical instruments were added, and the number of orchestras increased. ORCHESTRA is the authentic western classical/orthodox music. Western pop/rock music often uses some or all members of ORCHESTRA to assist in performances.
what is CHAMBER POP?
CHAMBER POP refers to an elegant, noble and exquisite pop music, which has a certain sense of classical music. The word "CHAMBER MUSIC" comes from classical music, which is called "Chamber Music" in Chinese. It is a group string playing style with elegant atmosphere. The rise of CHAMBER POP in the 199s was a response to LO-FI and GRUNGE at that time, emphasizing beautiful melody, exquisite soundtrack and clean recording. Strings and wind music were often used to create the musical feeling of Baroque era. Foreign representative bands include THE DIVINE COMEDY, RIALTO, ERIC MATTHEWS and Balle &; SEBASTIAN, etc., Hong Kong has Huang Yaoming, some Peng Ling, some MULTIPLEX and so on.
what is a FOLK song?
FOLK originally refers to the traditional songs of every nation. The ancestors of every nation have their own songs from primitive/ancient times. Most of these songs don't know who the author is, but they are spread by word of mouth, spread from generation to generation. However, the FOLK songs (FOLK) we are talking about today mostly refer to the folk songs (folk) in the pop music era, which refers to the kind of songs that are mainly accompanied by wooden guitar and sing 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 the 195s, so she is generally recognized as the founder of modern folk songs. After that, PETE SEEGER and THE WEAVERS continued to promote this kind of music. In the Vietnam War in the 196s, anti-war folk singers such as BOB DYLAN, JOAN BAEZ, PETER, PAUL AND MARY became the voice of the times. After the development of folk songs to POP, ROCK and urbanization, BOB DYLAN invented FOLKROCK, Simon &; GARFUNKEL developed a middle-class urban FOLK POP, which was popular for a while. In 198s, SUZANNE VEGA, TRACYCHAPMAN and others walked out of an urban/CONTEMPORARY FOLK route with a more modern urban feeling. FOLK songs (folk songs) have also developed different faces in Britain, Hong Kong and other music circles. The relatively new development of FOLK songs (folk) in recent years is the combination with NEW AGE (such as ENYA) and TRIP HOP (such as BETH ORTON).
what is BOSSA NOVA?
BOSSA NOVA is a kind of Brazilian music with JAZZ flavor. In 195s, composer ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM mixed the rhythm of Brazilian music with COOL JAZZ on the west coast of the United States, featuring softness, comfort, relaxation, laziness and romance. The 1st, 4th, 7th, 11th and 14th beats of every two bars are remakes. The singer JOAO GILBERTO's pure and thick voice is an excellent partner of JOBIM's music, which was very popular after it was introduced to the United States in the mid-195s. Other famous BOSSA NOVA musicians include CHARLIE BYRD,STAN GETZ and ASTRUD GILBERTO, and the most famous song is "THE GIRLFROM IPANEMA". OSSA NOVA was the most popular in the 196s, and there were constant fans in other years.
what is CLASSICAL POP?
classic pop refers to pop music with classical sound, and songs accompanied by strings can be included in this category, such as "ELEANORRIGBY" by THE BEATLES. Some works by the Australian band CROWDED HOUSE can also be included in this category. If we say CLASSIC POP, it means classic pop music.
what is ACAPPELLA?
ACAPPELLA refers to a song that is not accompanied by an instrument, but any song that is sung purely by human voice is ACAPPELLA, but today we say ACAPPELLA usually refers to the kind of singing with multiple voices, and even the instrumental accompaniment is sung by human voice. The opposite of ACAPPELLA is INSTRUMENTAL, that is, pure music, and any type of song can be sung in the form of ACAPPELLA. Hong Kong people are most familiar with the ACAPPELLA song "SO MUCH IN LOVE", and Hong Kong ACAPPELLA band has Ji Sheng Ya Shi and so on. What is WORLD MUSIC?
WORLD MUSIC is a vocabulary from the western point of view, which means the music of non-English, American and western folk songs/pop songs. It usually refers to the traditional music in developing or backward areas, such as music in Africa and South Asia. Some areas, such as music in Latin America, can be popularized to its own type. Today, WORLD MUSIC usually refers to the improved traditional regional music mixed with western music. KING SUNNY ADE in Africa, DON BYRON in Eastern Europe, Zhu Zheqin in China, NUSRAT FATEHALI KAHN in Pakistan, etc. are WORLD MUSIC musicians familiar to western fans.
what is DREAM-POP
DREAM-POP is a kind of "dream"-like pop music, which has a blurred atmosphere, mostly caused by SYNTHESIZERS (electronic synthesizers) and added EC.