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Introduction to music types & representative music

1. Jazz

Jazz was first developed in New Orleans at the end of the 19th century. The main sources of jazz formation are blues and ragtime. The original meaning of blues is sadness and melancholy, which evolved from the labor chants of black people. Most of the blues lyrics mainly reflect the lives of black people.

The representative works "Blue Rhapsody" and "An American in Paris"

2. Tingpan Hutong Songs

At the end of the 19th century on 28th Street in New York City, the United States (Between 5th Avenue and Broadway) there are many music publishing companies. Each company has salesmen who play the piano there all day long to attract customers. The sound of the piano is like knocking on an iron plate, hence the name "Tingpan" alley. name. Timpan Hutong once became a center of popular music in the United States, and it also formed an era of popular music's prosperity and a symbol of music style.

Representative work "White Christmas"; Cole Porter (1891~1964), representative works include "Night and Night"

3. Country music

Country music was originally called mountain music. The formation of this music form began in the agricultural areas of the southern states of the United States in the 1920s. It was handed down by British immigrants, so it naturally has the style of many British folk songs. Later, it was influenced by the music of other ethnic groups and developed. It was not until after World War II that it became popular throughout the United States and was called country music.

Representative works of foreign language songs - American Country Music - Straw Hat Song

American Country Music (Classics) - Foreign Language Songs - European and American Classics - Yesterday Once More

< p>American country music - love is blue (love is melancholy)

4. Rock music

Popular music began to show a diversified trend in the 1950s. The main musical style of rock music is the fusion of black music and country music of southern white people. The form is mainly singing, and the music is accompanied by electric guitar, saxophone, electric bass, keyboard and jazz drums

The representative work The Beatles--From Me to You

The Beatles--Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

AC DC Band--You Shook Me All Night Long

Anti-Flag Band--Punks in vegas

5. Hip-Hop

It was founded among the poor working-class black people in New York in the late 1970s and 1980s. It brings together African music, American music and artistic culture. Hip-Hop is a general term for street culture composed of multiple elements, including music, dance, rap, DJ technology, clothing, graffiti, etc. At the beginning, Hip-Hop culture consisted of four major elements: DJ, MC, StreetDance, and Graffiti. The Hip-Hop of this period is called Old School Hip-Hop.

The representative work WITHOUT ME

BUSSINESS

6. R&B

The full name of R&B is Rhythm & Blues, which is generally translated as "Rhythm & Blues" ". In a broad sense, R&B can be regarded as "black pop music". It originated from black blues music and is the basis of today's western pop and rock. Billboard magazine once defined R&B as all black music, except for Jazz and Blues. It can be classified as R&B, which shows how broad the scope of R&B is.

Representative of `` masterpiece Love Is Color-Blind (very good, I have been listening to it recently)

Always come back to your love

7.RAP

The origins of rap music can be traced back to the chanting passages in the roots of black music. By the 1970s, rap music had officially established its own style. The main contribution was attributed to the DJs in the popular discotheques at that time. They mixed the funk rhythm that was popular among black people at the time into the popular disco rhythm, and repeated the content of the same record on the record player to make their own LOOPS, along with the "djing" that is now widely known and widely used by DJs. The law appeared, and rap began to be spread by black street culture

The representative works ``eminem dr-dre````, etc.```

8.HOUSE

HOUSE is dance music developed from DISCO in the 1980s. This is the music played by DJs in Chicago. They mixed a record by the German electronic band Kraftwerk with the regular rhythm of electronic drums (Drum Machine) and black blues singing, and House was born~ Generally translated as "House" "Dance music is the most basic form of electronic dance music, with a 4/4 rhythm, a drum sound per beat, a simple melody, and often a high-pitched female voice singing. After DISCO became popular, some DJs changed it and deliberately made DISCO It has become less commercial, and the bass and drums have become deeper, often becoming pure musical works. Even if there are singing parts, they are mostly short sentences sung by dancing female singers, often without clear lyrics. Gradually, some people added elements such as LATIN (Latin), REGGAE (Reggae in the West Indies), RAP (rap) or JAZZ (jazz). By the late 1980s, HOUSE broke out of the underground scope and became a popular brand in Chicago and New York. and London pop chart darlings.

House can be divided into:

Acid House is house music that combines the acid sound of TB-303

Deep House has a very strong soul singing style. Also called Garage, it is quite popular. Real Mecoy, M-People, and La Bouche are all Garage groups.

Hard House is simply a House with a heavier rhythm and a fiercer rhythm.

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Progressive House This type of house does not have soul singing, but pays more attention to melody and music arrangement. It is a bit like "performance" house music. For example, SASH!'s album It's My Life is a very good progressive house. House album.

Epic House is "epic" House. Epic House has beautiful, smooth melody and majestic momentum, and rarely has vocals in it (almost none!). BT's music is just that Great Epic House, and he is also called the "Epic House Emperor". In fact, even Rock has "Epic Rock"

Trible House Imagine: with the original African style or the Indians What does house with drums look like? This is Trible House~ In addition to the stable rhythm of ordinary house, this kind of house will add some original and fragmented drum beats between each beat. It's quite interesting~ However, House The scope of house is too broad, and you don’t have to classify a piece of music. These just tell you that there are many kinds of house.

In the 1990s, house had reduced its avant-garde and trendy colors. But it is still a very popular music.

9.Britpop

Although Britpop has the word "Pop", it is actually a type of Rock, which originated in England in the 1990s. It can be translated as "British rock" in Chinese. This is the response of the British music scene to the American grunge trend, mainly in the form of a band.

However, the Britpop style is actually very broad. For example, Oasis is a guitar rock band, Blur has a lot of Pop, and Pulp is close to glam rook and dance styles, but they are all classified as Britpop.

British Britpop

Representatives: Oasis, Blur, Suede, Pulp, Radiohead

10. Trip-Hop

Trip-Hop It is a type of British/European dance music. Its name comes from "Trip + Hip-Hop = Trip-Hop". Because it originated from 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... If you don’t know what Hip-Hop is, go and see the hip-hop dancers, most of them use Hip-Hop music to dance.) Rhythm Slow it down (sometimes very slowly) and add some psychedelic flavor, such as a very gloomy, fat Bass, slight but psychedelic synthetic sound effects, or samples from some records. Sometimes even the noise of the record may be "deliberate" Take a sample. The so-called "trip" refers to a psychedelic and dense drug journey. Therefore, trip-hop is a kind of slow psychedelic, jazz-like, hazy break beat music with a bit of hip-hop rhythm. Although it belongs to the dance music category, its psychedelic and confusing characteristics have made it far away from the clear rhythm characteristics of ordinary dance music.

11. RAP (rap or rap music)

The main feature is to recite a series of rhymed words quickly against the background of mechanical rhythm. One of its origins is the lyrics inserted by the record DJ at the disco party to introduce the record according to the dance rhythm. Rap can also be called Hip-Hop. Its music is simple, has a lot of repetitions, and mostly has no melody, only bass lines and powerful rhythms.

The representative work Bouge de la Le Bien, Le Mal

12 Blues (Blues) Blues music contains a lot of poetic language, which is repeated constantly, and then ends with a decisive line, It has a bittersweet, sentimental impact. It is further divided into: country Blues, classical Blues, and electro-acoustic Blues

The representative work The Thrill Is Gone Candy Man Blues

13.3 Reggae (which is what we call reggae)

Regge is a unique style of Jamaican music. Like Blues, Reggae is a colorful music that combines many musical elements such as melody rock and folk rock, giving Reggae diverse interpretations. As a result, it becomes increasingly bright in the mainstream area.

14. Country music

Latin music has a strong rhythm. Latin music usually refers to Pop Latin, including dance music, popular oriental music sung in Spain and Tejano. The masterpiece Let's Be Us Again country road (so old, but good to listen to) 5 Heavy metal rock music As the name suggests, you know the meaning.

Masterpiece EverydayBullet For My Valentine Tears Don't FallChildren Of Bodom