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. The 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 and so on.
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. The form is not eclectic, and it is free to play according to the principle of sonata. Poetry, drama painting and historical deeds are often used as themes, and theme deformation is widely used to create artistic images expressing 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 solo works.
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.
Change of form
Play a theme with its own paragraph first, and then perform a series of variations on the theme (variations). Through many different variations, the theme can be played in many ways. Its schema is: theme-variation 1- variation 2- variation 3 ... from three to five times to dozens of times. The themes of variations are mostly beautiful and moving. There are often independent music written in the form of variations, and some are used in large-scale music such as sonatas (usually used in slow movements), such as Beethoven's Sonata for Passion.
The question I've been thinking about is
What kind of attitude should we take towards music?
if
Rock & roll is radicalism and strength.
Fashion is warm.
Classics are introverted and blooming.
Jazz is pain and struggle.
if
Music is the experience of life.
therefore
We are willing to treat it as objectively as possible.
Touch music
Give up all mean words.
Return to the original tolerance
What is R & ampb?
The full name of R & ampb is rhythm &；; The blues is generally translated as "rhythm complaining" or "rhythm and blues". R &； in a broad sense; B can be regarded as "black pop music", which originated from black blues music and is the basis of western pop music and rock music. Billboard magazine once defined R& B as all black music except jazz and blues can be classified as R&; B, visible R &；; How wide is the scope of B. Hip Hop and Rap, which are very popular in black music circles in recent years, both originated from R&; Save a lot of research and development expenses during research and development. Component B.
What is a house?
House is a dance music developed from disco in 1980s. This is music played by DJ in Chicago. They mixed a record of German electronic band Power Plant Orchestra with the regular rhythm of drum machine and songs of black blues, and House came into being ~ generally translated as "Shi Hao" dance music, which is the most basic form of electronic dance music, with a rhythm of 4/4 beat, drums and simple melody. There are often high-pitched female voices singing. After disco became popular, some DJs changed it and deliberately made disco less commercial. Bass and drums are getting deeper and deeper, and many times they become pure music works. Even if there are singing parts, most of them are short sentences sung by female dancers, and there are often no clear lyrics. Gradually, some people added Latin (Latin), reggae (reggae originated in the West Indies), RAP or JAZZ. By the end of 1980s, House had rushed out of the underground world and became the darling of the pop charts in Chicago, new york and London.
Why is it called "house"? In other words, as long as you have simple recording equipment, you can make this kind of music at home ~House is also the most acceptable electronic music.
Cher's belief is a good example. M- people can be said to be a house group. Since the popularity of 1986, house dance music has replaced disco music.
Houses can be divided into:
Sour house is a house music that combines the sour sound of TB-303.
Deep house has a strong soul voice, also known as garage, which is quite popular. Real Mecoy, M-people and Labouche are all garage combinations.
A hard room is simply a house with a heavy rhythm and fierce.
Houses such as the progressive house have no soul singing, and pay more attention to melody and music arrangement. It's a bit like "playing" chamber music, just like SASH! The album "This is My Life" is a good progress room album.
Epic House is an epic house. Epic House has a beautiful and smooth melody and great momentum, and there are few voices in it (almost none! ). BT's music is a great epic otaku, and he is also called "epic otaku". In fact, even rock has "epic rock".
Trible House imagine: what is a house with African primitive characteristics or Indian drums? This is Tribble House ~ This kind of house not only has the stable rhythm of ordinary houses, but also adds some fragmentary drums with original characteristics between beats. It's interesting ~ however, the scope of the house is too wide, and a song doesn't need to be classified. These just tell you that there are many kinds of houses.
By the 1990s, House had reduced avant-garde and trendy colors, but it was still very popular music.
What is Britpop?
Although BritPop has the word "Pop", it is actually a kind of rock, which originated in Britain in the 1990s. Chinese can be translated as "British Rock", which is a response of the British music industry to the American junk rock tide, mainly in the form of bands. However, the styles of BritPop are actually very extensive. For example, Oasis is a guitar rock band, Blur has many POPs, and Pulp is close to Glam Rook and dance style, but they all belong to Britpop.
Representatives of British pop: Oasis, Fuzzy, Suede, Pulp, Radio Commander.
What is jumping?
Trip-Hop is an English/European dance music. Its name comes from "trip+hip-hop = trip-hop". Because it originated in Bristol, England, it was originally called "Bristol Hip-hop". Because hip-hop (in fact, a lot of music is based on hip-hop ... I don't know what hip-hop is. Most people who watch hip-hop dance follow hip-hop music. ) Slow down (sometimes very slowly) and add some psychedelic flavor, such as gloomy and heavy bass, slight but psychedelic synthetic sound effects, or sample some records, and sometimes even the noise of records will be "deliberately" sampled. The so-called "trip" refers to a psychedelic and dense drug trip. So Trip-Hop is a kind of adagio psychedelic, jazz-like, chaotic beat music with a little Hip-Hop rhythm. Although it belongs to the category of dance music, its psychedelic and chaotic characteristics have made it far away from all the clear beat characteristics of general dance music.
Representative figures of Trip-Hop abroad: ortishead, Tricky, Massive Attack, Mandalay Moloko, Coldcut, recognized in Trip-Hop.
What is gangster rap?
Gangsta Rap is a kind of rap, which is mostly related to urban crime, full of violence and lust, and it is a music direction that reflects reality. Gangsta Rap rose in the United States in the late 1980s. The strong and sharp genre of music rap is very popular in the United States, and the record sales are very good. Many gang rap musicians themselves really "participated" in various crimes in reality, and some even went to jail or even were killed, which can be said to be a truly realistic and shocking music.
Gangster rap group: Tracy Marlowe, ice cube, Dr. Derry, Snoopy Dog, 2 Pac, Geto Boy.
What is Synth Pop?
Synth Pop's "Synth", that is, synthesizer, is "popular music concocted by synthesizers" as its name implies. Of course, computers, drums and other electronic musical instruments will be used in addition to synthesizers. Synth Pop became popular in the early 1980s, but it became silent in the mid-1980s, when there was a boom in Hong Kong. Synth Pop is characterized by a strong sense of science and technology, and sometimes it is quite cold. Most songs are "three-minute pop", and many times Synth pop musicians will dress up in fashion.
Synth Pop stands for combination: Depesh model, human alliance, Duran Duran, OMD, Gary Numan.
What is an orchestra?
The orchestra is an orchestra, divided into four groups: 1 string, including violin and cello, 2 brass, 3 woodwind and 4 percussion. Each instrument in the string group is played by many people (except the harp), and the four groups of players are coordinated and conducted by one person, who is the conductor of the orchestra. /kloc-orchestras appeared in the 0/7th century, and18th century clearly established the mode because of the works of Haydn and Mozart. /kloc-Some new musical instruments were added in the 0/9th century, and the number of orchestras also increased. Orchestral music is authentic western classical/orthodox music. Western pop/rock music often uses some or all members of the orchestra to assist in the performance.
What is chamber music?
Chamber music refers to an elegant, noble and exquisite pop music with a certain sense of classical music. The word "chamber music" comes from classical music, which is called "chamber music" in Chinese. It is an elegant and atmospheric ensemble playing style. The rise of chamber music in the 1990s was a response to LO-FI and GRUNGE at that time, emphasizing beautiful melody, exquisite soundtrack and clean recording. Strings and wind music are often used to create the musical feeling of the Baroque era. Foreign representative bands include Divine Comedy, Rialto, Eric Matthews and Bale &; Sebastian and so on. Some are from Huang Yaoming, some are from Peng Ling, some are diversified, and so on.