Music type

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.

(1, 2) 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 commercialized. 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.

A house like Progressive House has no soul singing, and pays more attention to melody and music arrangement. It's a bit like "performing" house music, just like SASH! This is my life album, and it's a good progress house 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.

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(2, 1) 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.

(2, 2) 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.

(2,3) What is Gangsta Rap?

Gangsta Rap is a kind of rap, which is mostly related to urban crime, full of violence and lust, and 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.

(2,4) 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.

(2, 5) 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.

(2,6) 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.

(2, 7) What are 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 music era, which are accompanied by acoustic guitars and sung in a natural and frank way, singing the simple life feelings of everyone. WOODY GUTHRIE, an American folk singer, recorded the earliest folk songs in 1950s, so she is recognized as the founder of modern folk songs. Later, pete seeger and The Weaver continued to promote this kind of music. During the Vietnam War in the 1960s, anti-war folk singers such as Bob Dylan, joan baez, Peter, Paul and Mary became the voices of the times. After the development of folk songs to pop, rock and urbanization, Bob Dylan invented folk rock, Simon &; Garfinkel has developed a middle-class urban folk pop music, which has been popular for some time. In 1980s, SUZANNE VEGA, TRACYCHAPMAN and others embarked on a more modern urban/contemporary folk song route. Folk songs (folk songs) have also developed different faces in music circles such as Britain and Hong Kong. The relatively new development of folk songs in recent years is the combination with the new era (such as ENYA) and TRIP HOP (such as Beth Orton).

(2, 8) What is Posanova?

Bosanova is a kind of Brazilian music with jazz flavor. /kloc-ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM, a composer in the 1950s, combined the rhythm of Brazilian music with cool jazz on the west coast of the United States, featuring softness, comfort, relaxation, laziness and romance. 1, 4, 7, 1 1, 14 beats in every two bars are all remakes. The singer JOAO GILBERTO's pure and rich voice is an excellent partner of Jopin music, which became very popular after it was introduced to the United States in the mid-1950s. Other famous Bosanova musicians include Charlie Bird, Stan Gates and Astrud Gilberto. The most famous song is The Girl from Ipanema. Osanova was the most popular in the 1960 s, and fans continued in other years.

(2, 9) What is classical fashion?

Classical pop refers to pop music with the flavor of classical music, and songs accompanied by strings can be classified into this category, such as ELEANORRIGBY by by the Beatles. Some works by the Australian band Crowded House can also be classified into this category. If we say classic pop, we mean classic pop music.

(2, 10) What is cappella?

Cappella refers to the songs without instrumental accompaniment, but all the songs sung by pure vocals are cappella. But today, cappella usually refers to the kind of multi-voice singing, and even the instrumental accompaniment is also sung by vocals. The antithesis of cappella is instrumental music, that is, pure music. Any kind of songs can be sung in the form of cappella. Hong Kong people are most familiar with cappella's song "So in Love", and Hong Kong cappella bands include Jisheng Yashi and so on.