1, classical music
It is the mainstream music in Europe during the period of 1750- 1820, also known as the Vienna classical music school. The three most famous composers of this genre are Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
Its characteristics are: the high unity of reason and emotion; A high degree of unity of profound ideological content and perfect artistic form. In terms of creative techniques, he inherited the achievements of traditional European polyphony and melody music, established the structure of modern Ming-playing music forms and the genres and forms of symphonies, concertos and various chamber music, which had a far-reaching impact on the development of western music.
2. Country music
Country music is a kind of popular music with American national characteristics, which rose in the southern United States in the 1920s. Its roots come from English folk songs and it is the representative of American white folk music. Country music is characterized by simple melody, stable rhythm, strong narrative, strong local flavor, kindness and enthusiasm without losing popular elements.
Step 3 jazz
Jazz originated in the United States at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century, and was born in the southern port city of New Orleans. Its music comes from blues and ragtime music. Jazz pays attention to improvisation, based on the swaying rhythm of shuffling, and is a combination of African black culture and European white culture.
In the first decade of the 20th century, jazz developed mainly in New Orleans. 19 17 and then moved to Chicago, and then moved to new york in 1930. Today, jazz is popular all over the world. The main styles of jazz are: New Orleans jazz, swing music, Bibop, cold jazz, free jazz, Latin jazz, fusion jazz and so on.
4. Rock music
Rock and roll is a type of music, which originated in the United States in the late 1940s and became popular in the early 1950s, and quickly swept the world. Rock' n' roll expresses emotions with flexible and bold expressions and passionate musical rhythms, and it has formed a craze in 1960 and 1970.
The first work branded with rock in history was Rock Around the Clock recorded by American white musician bill haley in the mid-1950s. Rock and roll is not only a form of music, but also a "life attitude and philosophy", which is why rock and roll is different from pop music.
5. Inferior
Punk, also translated as punk, was born in the mid-1970s. It is a simple rock music that originated from garage rock and pre-punk rock in the 1960s. It is the most primitive rock music-it consists of a simple melody and three chords. After evolution, punk has gradually separated from rock music and become an independent music.
Punk music doesn't pay much attention to musical skills, but prefers a clear stand of ideological emancipation and anti-mainstream. This original intention was actively imitated by Britain and the United States in the specific historical background of the 1970s, and finally formed the punk movement.
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Music style is genre. Music style refers to the combination of various musical elements in the music category-melody, rhythm, timbre, dynamics, harmony, texture and form, but mainly refers to melody. The special combination of these elements can produce a unique sound.
The works created by some composers in a certain region or around the same period in the world are often similar in style, but each composer can also form a personalized expression by using the same musical language. Music style is constantly changing with the changes of historical periods, and these changes are continuous, so the boundary between any style period and another style period is often blurred.
Music styles are:
Classical music, Gregorian chant, baroque music, classical music, romantic music, impressionist music, expressionist music, neoclassical music, country music, jazz, rock music, heavy metal music, punk, electronic music, soul music, R&; B, britpop, fugue, gang rap, gothic music, etc.
1, medieval music
What people used to call the "Middle Ages" spanned a thousand years of European history. The period after the "dark ages" began in about 450 years. All social classes are strongly influenced by the Roman Catholic Church. Just as Catholicism ruled people's hearts in the Middle Ages, it also occupied a dominant position in music life. Most important musicians are priests and all work for the church.
Among thousands of churches, one of the most important occupations is liturgical singing. It is precisely because of this prominent position of the church that it is not surprising that only religious music has been recorded and preserved for centuries.
Medieval music (450~ 1450) was mostly vocal music. After about 1 100 years, the use of musical instruments in church music gradually increased. The most important thing is the organ.
For centuries, western music has been based on solo music with only one melody. Sometime between 700 and 900 AD, a revolution began to appear, which led to the transformation of western music-adding a second melody line under Gregorian chant. At first, the second melody line was improvised and not written down. The two melodic lines are separated by an interval of four or five degrees, and move one by one in parallel. This kind of music is called Olganon.
During the period of 900~ 1200, Organon evolved into real polyphonic music, and the additional melody was no longer strictly parallel to hymns, but became more independent.
After 1 150, Paris, the capital of European thought and art, was called the polyphonic music center. Leonan and Perotin, who were the two consecutive directors of Notre Dame Choir, are the most famous composers. They and their followers are called Notre Dame de Paris.
2. Gregorian chant
This is a hymn sung in the official worship ceremony of the Roman Catholic Church, which originated from the Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. At that time, there was a pope named Gregoris Magnus (590-604 AD) who edited these hymns into books, so later generations called them "Gregoris Hymns".
Gregorian chant has the following characteristics: the lyrics are all Latin, there is no single melody line of accompaniment and harmony, the rhythm is very free, the mode scale is different from the "big and small tone system", and it is objective, impersonal and ultra-secular. This kind of hymn music is inseparable from the sacrificial ceremony.
They can be considered as "functional music", that is, music with special functions but no entertainment value. They mainly aim at expressing the religious connotation of lyrics, without paying attention to functional beauty or emotional appeal. But interestingly, many popular music and folk songs in the Middle Ages were adapted from the tunes of Gregorian hymns.
3. Country music
This name appeared in the United States in the 1920s and has a wide origin. At that time, the content of songs, in addition to expressing work and life, hated lonely and wandering life, yearned for a warm and peaceful home, and sang sweet love and the pain of lovelorn.
In singing, people used to sing in their own voice at first, mostly in the form of solo or chorus, with guitar, banjo, harmonica and violin.
The tunes of country music are generally smooth and beautiful, and the music structure is relatively simple. Most of them are ballads in two or three parts.
4. jazz
Jazz is developed from folk songs, and it comes from many sources, so it is not easy to study it carefully. During the19th century, music was an important means for black slaves to express their lives and feelings on plantations in the southern United States. From the end of 19, jazz was based on traditional British and American music, and it was a product of "mixed blood", combining blues, ragtime and other music types.
African-American music retains many African characteristics, obvious rhythm characteristics and collective improvisation characteristics. The combination of this tradition and the music (mainly vocal music) of the new residence not only produces a new sound, but also produces a brand-new musical expression.
5. Rock music
What exactly is rock and roll? Long hair, leather jacket, ripped jeans ... yes or no; Guitar, bass, drums ... yes, no; Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Nirvana ............................................................................................................................................................ Young and free, hormonal, deviant ... yes and no;
Rhythm, lyrics, melody, dream, truth, feeling, wildness, faith, strength, anger ... yes and no; In fact, these related associations are just appearances. Are you interested in understanding the real rock culture and the "core" hidden under these "appearances"? In the purest form, the so-called rock and roll is that the triad strengthens the hard and continuous drums and adds the melody of the mouth.
Rock and roll is not only a form of music, but also a "life attitude and philosophy", which is why rock and roll is different from pop music. The real rock culture can at least extract such a miniature panorama: hippie culture, art rock, punk music, pioneer music, heavy metal and so on.
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Music style is genre. Music style refers to the combination of various musical elements in the music category-tune, rhythm, timbre, dynamics, harmony, texture and form, but mainly refers to tune. The special combination of these elements can produce a unique sound.
And we can also talk about the music style of a composer, the style of a group of composers, the music style of a nation or a certain period in history. The works created by some composers in a certain region or around the same period in the world are often similar in style, but each composer can also form a personalized expression by using the same musical language.
Music style is constantly changing with the changes of historical periods, but these changes are continuous, so the boundary between any style period and another style period is often blurred. Although there are some sudden changes, even the most revolutionary new styles are often predicted in earlier works, and few of them are completely divorced from the traditional styles in the past.