1. Rock

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

2. Popular music

Popular music refers to music that is short in structure, popular in content, lively in form, and sincere in emotion. It is loved by the masses, widely sung or appreciated, and is popular for a while. Even instrumental music and songs were passed down to later generations. These pieces of music and songs are rooted in the rich soil of public life. Therefore, it is also known as "popular music".

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

3. Jazz

Jazz took shape at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Among many popular musics, jazz is the earliest and most influential music genre in the world. Jazz is actually American folk music.

European church music, traditional African American violin and banjo music combined with African singing and African American labor chants formed the original "folk blues", and "ragtime" and "folk blues" formed the Early Jazz. Jazz singing uses meaningless "liner words" to form a unique style of jazz singing under the rules of improvisation. The syncopated rhythms of jazz are complex and diverse. In particular, continuous syncopation across measures often shifts the original rhythm throughout the measure, creating an erratic sense of wandering.

4. Ballads

As a singing form originating from folk, there are two main sources of works. One is repertoire adapted from ancient traditional folk songs; The other is a creative ballad composed in the traditional ballad style. Regardless of the tendency, the singing retains the characteristics of traditional folk ballads.

Singing does not pay too much attention to vocal techniques, and mainly uses natural sounds. Since the melody of folk songs is relatively stable, this determines the characteristics of folk singing with shallow singing and low singing. At the same time, most of the themes of ballads are narrative themes, just like the tone of conversation between the two people. This also determines that the singing of ballads cannot be loud.

Introduction is a concept that cannot be confused. Singing lightly does not mean laziness and weakness. The state of the voice should be positive, and the breath should be natural and smooth, but the tone does not need to be overly exaggerated. Like speaking, exaggerated tone rarely appears in real life.

5. Light music (pure music, new century)

There are many types of light music, including general life songs, lyrical songs, humorous songs, satirical songs, and some light music. Operas, waltzes, small orchestral overtures, serenades, and some orchestral sketches, movie songs, dance music, etc. The style and characteristics of light music are more lively and interesting than other forms of music, especially its tunes are particularly beautiful.

Some symphonies, orchestral music, cantata and other works often need the help of technical means such as harmony, orchestration, polyphony and so on. In addition to this, light music also relies more importantly on the beauty of the melody. to complete.

Therefore, light music has stricter requirements for beautiful and light tunes than other music forms. A lyrical song should be graceful and euphemistic; a waltz must have a distinct rhythm and melodious tone; a humorous song should give people a joyful and joyful infection; and a satirical song should be spicy and sharp. The unique performance characteristics of these light music also form its own style.

6. Classical music

Classical music refers to music created in the context of European cultural traditions from the Baroque period (1600-1750) to the early 20th century. , it is different from popular music and national music and has eternal significance. The word "classical" itself contains the concepts of balance, moderation, simplicity and refinement.

Sonata form is the most typical feature of classical music.

The characteristics of classical music are: smooth melody, abandoning complex opposition techniques, making the melody sound smoother; the accompaniment part is usually very light, usually using a bass to play a fixed sound pattern or proceeding very slowly, which will never be correct. The melody dominates the scene.

7. Folk music

Folk music refers to national music. Chinese folk music refers to traditional folk music performed in the form of solo or ensemble using traditional Chinese instruments. Chinese national instrumental music has a long history. From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, folk instruments such as sheng, yu, guzi, zhuzhu, and qin were popular. At that time, qin players such as Shi Juan and Shi Kuang emerged and famous qin music such as "High Mountain" and "Flowing Water" emerged.

Drumming music in the Qin and Han Dynasties, Qing Shang music in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, pipa music in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, fine music and Qing music in the Song Dynasty, Shifan gongs, drums, string strings, etc. in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. The forms of performance are rich and diverse. . Various genres and forms in modern times are the inheritance and development of traditional forms.