Contemporary Western Music Genres Blues Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the “Deep South” of the United States around the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues form, ubiquitous in Jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll Is characterized by specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues chord progression is the most common.
The blue notes that, for expressive purposes are sung or played flattened or gradually bent (minor 3rd to major 3rd) In relation to the pitch of the major scale, are also an Important part of the sound. Jazz Jazz is a music that originated at the beginning of the 20th century, arguably earlier, wealth the African-American communities of the Southern United States, Its roots lie in the adoption by African-Americans of European harmony and form, taking on those European elements and combining them into their existing African-based music.
Its African musical basis is evident In Its use of blue notes, Improvisation, polymath, syncopation and the swung note. From its early development until the present day, jazz has also incorporated elements from popular music especially, in its early days, from American popular music. It defers from European music in that jazz has a “special relationship to time defined as ‘swing'”, involves a spontaneity and vitality of musical production in which improvisation plays an important role and contains a sonority and manner of phrasing which express the Individuality of the reforming jazz musician.
Rock and roll Rock n roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late sass and early 1 sass, primarily from a combination of African- American genres such as blues, Jump blues, Jazz, and gospel music, together with Western swing and country music. Though elements of rock and roll can be heard in blues records from the sass and in country records of the sass, rock and roll did not acquire Its name until the 1 sass.
In the earliest rock and roll styles of the late sass and early sass, either the piano or saxophone was often the lead instrument, but these were generally replaced or supplemented by guitar in the middle to late sass. The beat Is essentially a blues rhythm with an accentuated backseat, the latter almost always provided by a snare drum. Classic rock and roll is usually played with one or two electric guitars (one lead, one rhythm), a string bass or (after the mid-1 9505) an electric bass guitar, and a drum kit.
Beyond simply a musical style, rock and roll, as seen in movies and on television, influenced lifestyles, fashion, attitudes, and language. It went on to spawn various sub-genres, often without the Initially characteristic backseat, that are now more commonly called simply “rock music” or “rock”. Most notable rock n roll star would be Elvis Presley who recorded his first song that’s all right’ in 1954.
Rock n roll influenced bangle music a great deal, Western Music Genres By whaps rhythm and blues, and rock and roll is characterized by specific chord progressions, 3rd to major 3rd) in relation to the pitch of the major scale, are also an important part thin the African-American communities of the Southern United States. Its roots lie music. Its African musical basis is evident in its use of blue notes, improvisation, present day, Jazz has also incorporated elements from popular music especially, in its early days, from American popular music. T differs from European music in that Jazz contains a sonority and manner of phrasing which express the individuality of the performing Jazz musician. States during the late sass and early sass, primarily from a combination of African- not acquire its name until the sass. In the earliest rock and roll styles of the late sass. The beat is essentially a blues rhythm with an accentuated backseat, the mid-sass) an electric bass guitar, and a drum kit.
Beyond simply a musical style, initially characteristic backseat, that are now more commonly called simply “rock Khan song ‘Bar ole Jew sonata’ Rock Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unconsecrated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Rock songs from the mid-sass onwards often used the verse-chorus structure derived from lees and folk music, but there has been considerable variation from this model.
Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock. Because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that “it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. ” A simple 4/4 drum pattern common in rock music Unlike many earlier styles of popular music, rock lyrics have dealt with a wide range of themes in addition to romantic love: including sex, rebellion against “The
Establishment”, social concerns and life styles. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm and blues. The predominance of white, male and often middle class musicians in rock music has often been noted and rock has been seen as an appropriation of black musical forms for a young, white and largely male audience. As a result it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics.
Since the term rock began to be used in preference to rock and roll from the mid-sass, it as often been contrasted with pop music, with which it has shared many characteristics, but from which it is often distanced by an emphasis on musicianship, live performance and a focus on serious and progressive themes as part of an ideology of authenticity that is frequently combined with an awareness of the genre’s history and development. [18] According to Simon Firth “rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll.
Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the romantic concept of art as artistic expression, original and sincere”. In the new millennium the term rock has sometimes been used as a blanket term including forms such as pop music, reggae music, soul music, and even hip hop, with which it has been influenced but often contrasted through much of its history. Pop music The definition of pop music is purposefully flexible as the music that is identified as pop is constantly changing.
At any particular point in time it may be easiest to identify pop music as that which is successful on the pop music charts. For the past 50 years the most successful musical styles on the pop charts have continually hanged and evolved. However, there are some consistent patterns in what is identified as pop music. Pop music evolved out of the rock ‘n roll revolution of the mid-sass’s and continues in a definable path to today.
Like other art forms that aim to attract a mass audience (movies, television, Broadway shows), pop music has been and continues to be a melting pot that borrows and assimilates elements and ideas from a wide range of musical styles. Rock, r, country, disco, punk, and hip hop are all specific genres of music that have influenced and been incorporated into pop e impacting pop music more significantly than at any point in the past.
Musicologists often identify the following characteristics as typical of the pop music genre: an aim of appealing to a general audience, rather than to a particular sub- culture or ideology an emphasis on craftsmanship rather than formal “artistic” qualities an emphasis on recording, production, and technology, over live performance a tendency to reflect existing trends rather than progressive developments much pop music is intended to encourage dancing, or it uses dance- oriented beats or rhythms
