Styles of Music

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Styles of Music

• By Katelyn

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Country

• country-a simple style of folk music heard mostly
  in the southern United States usually played on
  stringed instruments

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Hip-Hop

• Hip/Hop belongs to the hip-hop culture, which is
  a combination of rapping, DJing, break dancing,
  and graffiti art.

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Rap

• Rap music came from the African American style
  of music. It is fast beat and normally has
  rhyming lyrics.

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Metal

• Metal is highly amplified, aggressive, menacing
  rock music. Metal uses overdriven electric
  guitars, pounding drums, technically difficult
  guitar solos, with screaming vocals, and anger.

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Rock

• Often preferred as Rock 'n' roll uses the
  electric guitar, a strong rhythm with and accent
  of an offbeat, and youth oriented-lyrics.

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Alternative

• Alternative uses the guitar, bass, and drums.
  its also known as underground music.

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Rhythm Blues

• Rhythm and Blues is a combination of the swinging
  rhythm of jazz with the lyrical content, sonic
  gestures, and format of the blues.

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Jazz

• Jazz music is the music of America. The usual
  instruments are the saxophone, trombone, piano,
  clarinet, and the trumpet.

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Classical

• Classical music is a traditional genre of music
  conforming to an established form and appealing
  to critical interest and developed musical taste

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Big Band Swing

• Big Band and Swing consists of woodwinds, brass,
  piano, bass and drum. All styles of Swing can be
  danced very fast or very slow and everything in
  between. Its an up beat and dance like style of
  music.

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Electronic

• This music is produced or modified by electronic
  means, often with the aid of a computer.

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Contemporary Christian

• Contemporary Christian music (abbreviated CCM)
  is a brand of music that centers the message of
  Jesus Christ. and uses more of a "modern" style
  of music.

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Quiz Time
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True or False
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• Metal is a soft sounding quiet type of music.

False
True
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What is the main instrument that rock uses?
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a. Piano
b. Drum
C. Electric guitar
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What type of music uses mostly computers?
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a. Country?
b. Clasical?
c. Electronic?
d. Rock?
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True or False?
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Contemporary Christian music centers the message
of Jesus Christ.
True
False
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Correct
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False
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Works Cited

• "Alternative Rock." Wikipedia The Free
  Encyclopedia. 08 Mar. 2006. Wikipedia. 08 Mar.
  2006 k.
• "Rhythm and Blues Definition of Style." CBMR
  Center for Black Music Research. 26 Aug. 2005.
  CBMR.org. 08 Mar. 2006 /rhythmblues.htm.

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Song credits

• Twitty. Conway. Tight Fittin Jeans. The 1 Hits
  Collection. 1981 MCA Nashville
• Evans. Sara. Suds In The Bucket. Restless. 2003
  BMG Music
• Elliott. Missy. Lose Control. The Cookbook. 2005
  Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United
  States and WEA International Inc.
• Nelly. Grillz. Sweatsuit. Universal Records a
  divison of UMG Recordings Inc, 2005. .
• Papa Roach. Scars. Getting Away With Murder. 2004
  Gefen Records.
• Hook, Ghoti. I Love Rock And Roll. Songs We
  Didn't Write. Tooth Nail.
• Train. Drops Of Jupiter. Drops Of Jupiter. Sony
  Music Entertainment Inc, 2001. .

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Song credits cont.

• Keys, Alicia. Fallin. Songs In A Minor. 2001 J
  Records LLC
• Rollins, Sonny. St. Thomas. Saxophone Colossus.
  Fantasy
• Istropolitana Capella. Allegro. The A To Z Of
  Classical Music. Naxos.
• Sinatra, Frank. Ive Got You Under My Skin.
  Classic Sinatra His Great Performances
  1953-1960. Capitol
• Fatboy Slim. Slash Dot Com. Palookaville.
• Absolute Smash Hits. He Reigns. Absolute Modern
  Worship for Kids 2. Word Entertainment LLC, A
  Warner/Curb Company, 2005. .