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Please introduce British music and other music schools.

classical music

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Classical music, translated from Chinese into "classical music". Some people think that "classical" gives people an antique and stuffy taste, so it was renamed "classical music".

Romantic music

Romantic music is the continuation and development of classical music and a musical style or era in the history of European music. Romantic music pays attention to the expression of emotion and content, breaking the various forms of constraints in the classical music period.

baroque music

grotesque

The original meaning of the word baroque refers to an irregular pearl, which was derogatory at that time. At that time, people thought that its gorgeous and ostentatious style belittled the Renaissance style, but now it has been recognized that Baroque is a great artistic style in Europe.

gregorian chant

Gregory hymn

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 worship ceremony, and can be regarded 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.

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.

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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.

rock 'n' roll/rock and roll

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.

heavy metal

Heavy metal, in short, is to play rock music with a little extraordinary strength. Guitar, as the main element of this kind of music, is louder than usual and has a sense of revenge. The position of the double bass has also moved forward, just like John Entwistle in Who's Playing My Generation: The Magic Beast King. In the past, the double bass was only used as the main instrument in jazz, but now it has become as important as singing. Compared with ordinary pop music, drums are played heavier and faster, which has an impact on the audience. Finally, the singer-he lets the audience experience the emotions and feelings of new things such as death, sex, drugs or alcohol, and makes the themes that have appeared in pop music more real and possibly more frightening.

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Punk is an anti-rock music force that rose in1970s, and punk is translated as "punk" in Chinese mainland. Translated as "punk" in Taiwan Province province, it is called "crash" in Hongkong. In the west, punk means (slang) hooligans, trash, prostitutes, child molesters, inferior people and so on. Although its meaning has changed to some extent now. It has been 25 years since Leg McNeil first founded punk magazine in 1975, and then sex pistols made this music a trend. To understand the influence of punk on the world and indoor space, we must first understand the significance and development of punk.

electronic music

Electronic sound (also called TECHML), referred to as electronic sound.

Broadly speaking, as long as it is music created by electronic devices, it can belong to it. Any electronic sound produced by electronic synthesizers, effectors, computer music software, drum machines and other "musical instruments" can be reasonably called electronic music. The scope of generalized electronic sound is quite extensive, which can be found in movie soundtracks, advertising soundtracks and even some pop songs and rock music, but it is not easy for ordinary people to find it. In a very narrow sense, electronic music refers to various kinds of music such as Techno and Trance. But in fact, as long as the music created by electronic equipment includes music types such as house, drum and bass, even jazz and folk songs that only use electronic amplifiers can be electronic.

Soul music.

Soul music is the fusion of the southern gospel and the rhythm and blues in the midwest, and the revival of worship music is brought into the Bujiwu world of rhythm and blues. From this fertile foundation, soul music was born. Soul music is characterized by clear secular trends and solid rhythm of religious music. Guitar often gives way to Hammond B-3 organ, using some wind music. However, almost all soul music is marked by enthusiasm and high-pitched voice, and occasionally some improvisation is added.

R & ampB

The full name of R & ampb is rhythm &;; Blues, commonly known as "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 and rock. Billboard magazine once defined R& B as all black music, except jazz and blues, which 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.

House (dance music)

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 black blues songs, so "Dr. House" was born.

Trip-Hop (fugue)

Trip-Hop is an English/European dance music. Its name comes from "trip+hip hop" = trip-hop-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, but most of them dance to hip-hop music), the rhythm is slowed down (sometimes very slow), and some psychedelic flavors are added, such as gloomy and full bass, slight but psychedelic synthetic sound effects, or some record samples. Sometimes even the noise of a record may be "intentionally" sampled. The so-called "Trip" refers to the psychedelic and heavy drug "journey", so Trip-Hop is a kind of slow, psychedelic, jazz-like, hip-hop rhythm and chaotic broken beat music. 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.

Gangster rap (gangsta 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.

Synthetic pop music

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.

Orchestra (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.

Indoor pop music (indoor 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.

Folk songs (folk songs)

Folk songs (folk songs) originally refer to the traditional songs of each nation. The ancestors of each nation have their own songs from primitive/ancient times. Most of these songs don't know who the author is, but they are passed down from generation to generation. The folk songs we are talking about today mostly refer to the folk songs in the pop era, which are accompanied by acoustic guitars and sung in a natural and frank way, singing the simple life feelings of everyone.

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