As we all know, blues means blues, which means bitterness and melancholy in English. Although jazz includes black music, English songs, French dance music and so on. Blues are a major part of jazz. Blues came into being earlier than jazz, which may be a combination of field songs sung by blacks in the second half of the 9th century. Religious songs and folk songs. Bruce's music is mainly characterized by the fact that the first * * * sound falls on the major scale and the seventh, and sometimes the fifth. These flat notes are characterized by minor notes, which are often sung with a sliding sound. "Trembling" sounds sad, sad and full of emotion, so someone translated Bruce into a "song of complaint". Of course, blues songs also have some cheerful works. Bruce's speed is slow, the beat is often four or two beats, and the melody mostly contains syncopated rhythm. Bruce's singing style is very free, which is closely combined with the language and emotion in life. Falsetto, moaning, crying and muttering can all be used to render the atmosphere. Bruce, the temperament of the lower class, brought the characteristics of close connection with the life of working people and black folk music to early jazz.
Junk music
Grunge—— is an American proverb, which means "ugly, smelly, dirty and ugly things". Grunge is a kind of heavy metal, but it is different from heavy metal. In fact, it developed the characteristics of honesty, directness, primitiveness and traditional confrontation in punk rock in the 1970s. The origin of music and the punk of "sex pistols" and "heavy metals" such as "Black Sabbath" in the 1970s. Post-punk noise music in the middle and late 1980s also influenced this kind of music. Cold, weird, manic but refreshing. Goat beard, round shirt, plaid shirt and topless back are the images of this musician.
Representative figures are: Pearl Sauce Band, Green River Band and Nirvana Band.
pop music
Pop music-the wound of professional music creation is called "serious music", and works that do not show the main genres and ideological content are called light music. People are used to putting easy-to-understand and relaxed music, such as those waltzes by little Strauss, into this term. Since then, jazz, rock bands, operetta, disco and other endless forms of mass dance have become more and more. Although these music have the color of self-entertainment, sometimes there are works that belittle current events and attack reality. It is difficult to cover all these in the original concept of light music. Some media regard these as pop music, but this confuses the boundary between classics and these popular music. Nowadays theorists generally use the word pop music to summarize these musical phenomena.
Folk songs and rock music
Folk Rock)-The biggest difference between folk rock and other types of rock music is that folk rock has a birthday anniversary, that is, in the summer of 1965, Bob gave up the hollow guitar for the first time in the performance of Newport Folk Festival and replaced the accompaniment with an electric guitar. He was forced to step down by the audience because the electric guitar was too rebellious for the audience who only enjoyed pure folk songs. It is difficult to explain folk rock by definition, because it has no fixed beat or form. Most of them use their songs as tools to test their lives. In songs, they tell their experiences, express their feelings and describe their feelings. The content in the lyrics is changeable, and most of the songs are soft.
film soundtrack
Music-Music is to record the theme song (song), the main collection or the music of a movie or TV series together, and then make it into Caart, Dnb, CD or DAT/DCC, which is distributed by the record company. Early foreign films had a soundtrack, which was then called Caunation. Nowadays, movies pay more and more attention to the observability brought by the close connection between music and images. It can be expected that this trend will continue. An excellent film, if accompanied by beautiful music, is really memorable; Conversely, a beautiful film soundtrack can also add color to the film and promote its sales.
Progressive rock
Progressive rock-progressive rock can be called "music ahead of the times". Progressive rock, as its name implies, represents avant-garde innovation. Its purpose is to open up a new road for popular music at that time and make it more serious and literary. According to the definition of American pop rock dictionary, "any rock paradise that uses various musical instruments, mainly electronic synthetic instruments, to create a large number of timbres to gain new sounds and feelings can be called progressive rock". Basically, emphasizing the use of various electronic musical instruments and equipment is the spirit of progressive rock. Progressive rock water only tends to be literary and artistic in terms of lyrics and thoughts, and its major has a complete essentials.
Heavy metal rock
Heavy metal rock and hard rock are quite similar, and the boundary between them is very fine, and both of them are famous for their huge volume, shocking rhythm and striking sense of sound. The quantity, attack rhythm and strong sense of sound are all good. Hard rock has a longer history and comes directly from "Rhythm and Blues". It often sings fast-paced melodies with harsh voices. For early hard rock fans, the addition of electronic instruments in the late 1960s extended it to heavy metal rock. The texture structure of heavy metal rock songs is not bound by any rules. In order to pursue a strong stimulating effect, an electronic synthesizer is used, and the sound is strong and hot, especially the timbre of keyboard instruments, female voices and string groups. Players do not use pure and bright sound quality, but are keen on pursuing extremely exciting effects. There is a high demand for acting skills, especially for musicians who solo cadenza. These break or weaken the artistic taste of hard rock, and dilute the meaning of lyrics and rhythm.
Hard rock; ragstone
Hard rock-the boundary between hard rock and heavy metal rock is very small, and each other is dominated by huge volume, striking rhythm and striking sense of sound. But from the chronological point of view, hard rock appeared earlier than metal, which directly came from blues and rhythm. Sing a fast-paced song in a harsh voice. This kind of rock music is hard rock. For early hard rock fans, the addition of electronic instruments in the late 1960s turned hard rock into heavy metal, which not only destroyed or weakened the artistry of this kind of music, but also diluted the meaning and rhythm of lyrics.
symphony
Symphony-refers to large-scale music composed of several movements, at least one of which must be sonata-like. To avoid confusion, it was also translated into a symphony. The essence of a symphony is untitled. Only a few actions can be combined to show complete will. This is not a happy story. The first movement of the symphony is mostly in the form of lively allegro sonata, which is good at discovering moderately dramatic content; The second movement is Adagio, either in the form of variations or in the form of an abbreviated sonata. , to show lyricism; The third movement is a trilogy.
electronic music
Electronic music-English name TECHML, that is, electronic synthesis music, is not so much the product of high technology as the product of the times. Different from the previous rock music, it advocates the participation spirit of young people. Every follower of electronic music firmly believes that only when TECHML is shocked by nearly 100 decibels can people get the stimulation and enjoyment of 130 heartbeats per minute. What it needs is not to listen with ears, but to feel with the whole heart. The purpose of electronic music is love, peace and unity, which is similar to the UN Charter. For the admirers of electronic music, they advocate the attitude of life with less words and more thoughts, pursue the truth, goodness and beauty in human nature, and strive to eliminate the estrangement and indifference between people in a competitive society with the spirit of universal love and the family concept of one world.
Rock/roll
Rock' n 'roll-a popular music that rose in America in 1950s. It is gradually formed by the factors that American western country singers absorb black music in their singing. Among them, American religious songs, western country music and black music often incorporate rhythm components and blues tones. The early rock music was accompanied by guitar, piano, drums, saxophone and other musical instruments, with loud tones, simple repetition of phrases and strong sense of motivation. Most of the lyrics are about school life, love and so on. From the 1960s, it turned to the theme of resisting society.
jazz
Jazz music-1870 After the American Civil War, blacks gained certain social rights, which made it possible for them to combine African infectious melodies and complex rhythm music with improvisation in the European music system. Its earliest products are the highly decorative melody of the song and the liberalized melody of the soul song on the normal beat. Both of them are based on pentatonic folk songs and combined into a new form-one of the important factors in the formation of jazz in the future-blues. The popularity of black music makes white people interested in imitating their music in the way of so-called "ink performance". In New Orleans, there are also street bands composed of trumpet, trombone, tuba, clarinet and drum. They combined all these with the complex rhythm of black dance steps and gradually formed jazz.
capriccio
Rhapsady)-In Greek, Rhapsady refers to a professional epic lyricist, especially a passionate poet who doesn't express his ideas. The word also refers to the relatively free and unrestrained part of the epic. /kloc-At the end of 0/9, composers used it in some epic, heroic or patriotic instrumental works. The musical names of Liszt's 20 hungarian rhapsody are used in instrumental music to promote national heroism.
ballad
Ballade)-In Latin, the word ballade originally meant dance, but in the14th century, it was escaped as "ballad" or "ballad" in French, German and English. Perhaps the early ballads were accompanied by dance performances, so that they finally evolved into a word to express narrative dance: "ballet". Chopin first adopted this kind of poetic style loved by bard as the title of his works, implying the narrative nature of his works: perhaps Chopin's inspiration was really inspired by a certain talent, but the composer hoped that the audience would understand his works from a more general height, and their appreciation interest would not be stifled by this specific story. After that, Frank and Liszt exchanged views. Brahms named their works with the titles of folk songs, making folk songs a common genre in concert programs.
sonata
Sonata-western music genre. 16,17th century refers to all kinds of instrumental music. /kloc-after the 0/7th century, it refers to an instrumental ensemble suite similar to a suite. Scarlatti's classical piano sonatas are all single movement works, and most of them are in the form of classical sonatas. Since Haydn and Mozart, sonata refers to an instrumental solo suite composed of three or four movements (such as piano sonata), or an instrumental music composed of a solo instrument and piano (such as violin sonata and flute sonata).
concerto
Concerto-originally referred to as/kloc-an Italian chorus accompanied by instrumental music in the 6th century, which was different from cappella. Since the second half of17th century, it refers to several solo instruments and a small string band competing to play a suite of instruments. Those who use several instruments are also called "grand concertos", and those who use one instrument are also called "solo concertos". Modern concerto is a large-scale music played by solo instruments and orchestras. Its form and structure were established by Mozart, and it usually includes three movements.
Pastoral
Pastorale, or Pastorale-In English, the word Pastorale means both "double grazing", "farming" and even "priest", but according to the custom of China music industry, it is translated into pastoral, and pastoral is regarded as the name of another choir. According to legend, in ancient Italy, there was a tradition that shepherds played flutes in the city on Christmas morning, and they were responsible for the birth of Christ. It can even be further said that Christ himself is a good shepherd. This kind of music is played on a flute, with some lullaby characteristics, which reminds people of all kinds of stories about El Nino. The bass is a bagpipe-like long sound, which makes the music look peaceful and quiet. This pastoral poem gradually turned into a dramatic performance with dramatic content. It has both poetic and dramatic performances and music interspersed among them. Maybe we can translate it into pastoral opera again. /kloc-at the beginning of the 0/9th century, romanticism rose, and the worship of nature became a sign of cynicism, and pastoral forms appeared repeatedly in composers' works.
illusion
Fantasia-This is an instrumental music that appeared in The Master during the Renaissance. According to the explanation of the theorists at that time, "its structure and mode are free, which is beyond ordinary music." /kloc-in the 6th century, it developed into various forms, from the most impromptu recording to the strictest polyphonic texture, which may be called fantasia. Music created from a song or a ready-made work is often called fantasia. Compared with a collection, perhaps the former has more creative elements, while the latter is often just a simple ensemble of some fragments.
aria
Aria is also called "singing". The original meaning is lyric solo. At first, it was a solo and often appeared in Italian folk songs, operas and oratorios. It is usually long and full of drama, focusing on the image or psychological description of a character in the play. It is usually a complex trilogy or variation or Rondo. Because of its strong melody and rich expressive force, it can be sung solo in the concert.
humoresque
Scherzo is also called scherzo. Instrumental music in triple time. Its main characteristics are active rhythm, fast speed and frequent sudden strength contrast. It often appears in suites as the third movement, such as symphonies, to replace the court-style minuets. /kloc-after the 0/9th century, piano scherzo appeared. Its length, structure and paragraphs are bigger and the contrast is more vivid, among which Chopin's four piano scherzos are more famous.
Romance
Romance is a kind of lyric short song or short music with no fixed form. /kloc-was popular in France in the second half of the 0/8th century and in Russia in the middle of the 0/9th century. The characteristics of his songs are: meticulous melody expression, close combination with lyrics and rich accompaniment; Instrumental music is full of singing melody and is often played by violins and orchestras.
serenade
Songs or instrumental music that are solo or solo outdoors at dusk or night. A love song originated from medieval knight literature in Europe. Its euphemistic music is often used by young people wandering in front of lovers' windows, and is popular in Spain, Italy and other countries. Usually accompanied by guitar or mandolin, such as Schubert's song "Serenade". In addition, there is a kind of serenade for orchestra, with a lively tune, which began at the end of18th century and is often used to add interest to the dinner of senior dignitaries, such as Mozart's "hafner Serenade in D Major".
proposal
Originally refers to the opening music of operas, oratorios and other works. 17 and18th century opera overtures can be divided into French overtures and Italian overtures. The former is a polyphonic style, divided into three movements: adagio, allegro and adagio, with fugue in the middle and short ending; The latter is the main style, and the speed order is opposite to the former, which is divided into three movements: Allegro, Adagio and Allegro. Since19th century, composers have often used this genre to create independent instrumental music, most of which are sonata-style and have titles. Famous overtures include Mozart's Prelude to Figaro's Wedding, Weber's Prelude to Freelancers, Beethoven's Prelude to Federio, Rossini's Prelude to William Tours, Tchaikovsky's Prelude to Romeo and Juliet, etc.
tone poem
A movement of orchestral music, also called tone poetry, belongs to the category of title music. This genre was first created by composer Liszt. Not stick to one pattern in form, and play freely according to the principle of sonata form. It often takes poetry, drama painting and historical deeds as themes, and widely uses the method of theme deformation to create artistic images that express specific titles. There are also symphonic pictures, symphonic fairy tales, symphonic concert halls and other genres, which are similar. The famous symphonic poems include Liszt's Prelude and Tasso, Debussy's Afternoon of the Faun, The Sea and Bedrich Smetana's My Motherland. China's symphonic poems include Gadamer by Xin Huguang and The Story of the Yellow Crane by Shi Yongkang.
suite
Orchestral music or piano music composed of several short pieces. Among them, each song has relative independence. There are classical and modern suites. The classical suite, also known as the "dance suite", rose in the17-18th century. It is composed of all kinds of dance music with the same tune, but it contrasts in speed, time saving, throwing stones into wells and so on, such as Bach's "Piano Suite". Modern suites, also known as "plot suites", rose in19th century. Some of them are adapted from opera, ballet, drama music or movie music, and some are written according to specific titles or national music materials, such as Pell Gint Suite by Norwegian composer Grieg, Symphony Suite by Rimsky-Korsakov, Sheikh Rasheda and Czech Suite by dvorak.
march forward
A rhythmic piece of music. Originally a kind of dance music, it is often used when people go out. From the seventeenth century, it gradually turned into the field of music art, and the form of March at that time was mostly two-part; Modern marches often appear in three stages, and the middle part is lyrical for comparison. Adopt even-numbered beats, with clear rhythm and neat structure. Popular songs often use March genre, such as Xian Xinghai's Song of Saving the Nation.
tango
Tango originated in West Africa. /kloc-In the late 20th century, it became a popular duet in Argentina and other Latin American countries, which was used for social dancing. Its musical characteristics are: medium speed, 2/4 or 4/4 beats, and melody and accompaniment often form staggered rhythm, similar to Habanella. Characterized by syncopation, it was introduced into Europe and developed into "Continental Tango".
Polka dance
A folk dance in the Czech Republic. Mainly male and female duets. The basic action consists of two steps and a jumping step. /kloc-It was very popular all over Europe in the middle of 0/9th century. It can be roughly divided into three types: fast, slow and Mazuka rhythm. Generally, it is a trilogy style with two beats and a lively rhythm. Czech composer Bedrich Smetana was the first to compose operas and instrumental music, such as Polka in the betrayed bride.
Mazurka
A group dance for men and women in Poland. Operations include gliding, double spinning, and women running briskly around men. Originated in Masovia, where mazur people live in the Baltic Sea. Since18th century, it has been popular all over Europe. Its musical characteristics are: medium speed, three beats, changeable stress, especially in the second or third beat, lively and enthusiastic. The composer Chopin once developed this genre and created many famous piano solos.
Minuet dance
It was originally a French folk dance, a kind of dance music in triple time. 1650 was introduced into the court, and gradually became a slow and elegant dance music, popular in aristocratic society. In the 17 and 18 centuries, it was often used in clavichord suites and orchestral suites as a movement (usually the third movement) or as a separate instrumental music. Its structure is a three-stage musical form, and the middle part is usually written in three parts, so it is called "three-part middle part", which has been used ever since.
rotate
A folk triple-beat dance originated in northern Austria, which can be divided into quick and slow steps. When dancing, two people rotate in pairs. This kind of dance became popular in the court of Vienna in 17 and 18 centuries, and it became faster and faster. It was first used for social dancing in cities. It has been popular in European countries since19th century. The most popular waltzes at present are Viennese waltzes, the speed of which is Allegro, characterized by clear rhythm and smooth melody; In accompaniment, each bar often uses a chord. The stress in each beat is more prominent. Famous waltzes include johann strauss's The Blue Danube and The Story of the Vienna Forest.
rondo
Waltz originated from European folk music and was widely used in French classical piano music at the beginning of18th century. Based on the basic theme of repetition and the principle that several different "interludes" appear alternately. Its mode is: A (basic theme) +B (first insertion) +A+C (second insertion) +A ... This form is suitable for expressing lively and jubilant scenes, and is often used in the last movement of sonatas, symphonies and other large-scale music, ending the music with a warm atmosphere. There are also Rondo-like works in the song, such as Xian Xinghai's Go Behind the Enemy.