The classification of music genres currently divides music genres into two major categories: vocal music genres and instrumental music genres.

1. Vocal music genres: oratorios, operas, musicals, masses and requiems, choruses, unisons and duets, cantatas, madrigals, vocal suites and suites, art songs and romances, Serenades, lullabies and barcarolles, recitatives and arias.

2. Instrumental music genres: sonatas and symphonies, symphonic music and symphonic poems, tone poems, tone paintings, concertos, suites and suites, preludes and overtures, nocturnes, fantasies, capriccios and rhapsody, Military music and marches, waltzes, variations, arrangements, creative pieces, ballades, scherzos, humours, etudes, toccatas, ensembles and solos, etc.

Vocal music refers to the form of music sung with the human voice.

Vocal music includes: bel canto singing, ethnic singing and popular singing. Now, original singing has appeared in China.

Vocal music usually refers to bel canto singing.