Mikhaela Louisse B.

Mariano

10-St. Jude

Long Assignment on Music

Popular Music by Genre

Musical Genre
1. Ragtime

2. Jazz
3. Big Band

4. Rock N Roll

5. Rock Music

6. Folk Rock
7. Psychedelic
Rock

8. Blues Music

9. Country Music

10. Bossa Nova

Definition/Characteristics

Origin

Examples
(Titles)

Composers

Singers

-ragged or off beat rhythm

-King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin
-duple meter
-special association with swing, improvisation, developing voice quality, and other
musical potentials
-Improvisation is one of the key essentials.
-associated with jazz and swing
-musical group that consists of brass, woodwind, and rhythm instruments
-several black and white elements of American musical styles
-most popular form of music in the Western World in the 1950s to the mid-1990s
-popular instruments: electric & bass guitar, drum set and piano or keyboard
-originated from the term rock n roll
-evolved and developed into a more encompassing international style during the
60s and was simply called rock music
-style of music was heavily influenced by R&B and country music.
-combines the elements of folk music and rock music.
-identified with progressive or labor politics and was first pioneered by figures
such as Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger
-rock music style was inspired by the psychedelic culture that imitates and
improves the effect of mind-altering experience of psychedelic drugs
-use of electric guitars that are often with feedbacks and fuzzboxes
-song with simple structure, usually a one liner that is repeated over and over
again with interesting rhythms
-songs are sang by most West African tribes while working on the fields
-uses a five note scale called pentatonic scale.
-can be likened to a fairy tale of an orphan child who lives in poverty, underwent
many hardships, yet grew up to find fame and fortune
-started with old time and raw sound and was called hillbilly
-literally means new trend or new style
-Brazilian music that evolved from the samba and jazz music

New Orleans

The Entertainer

Scott Joplin

New Orleans,
United States

Dream A Little
Dream Of Me

Ella Fitzgerald
Louis Armstrong

United States

Woodchoppers
Ball
Great Balls
Of Fire

Fabian Andre
Gus Kahn
Wilbur Schwandat
Joe Bishop
Woody Herman
Roy Obison

Jerry Lee Lewis

Stairway To
Heaven

Jimmy Page
Robert Plant

Led Zeppelin

US & UK

Blowin In
The Wind

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

US & UK

Strawberry
Fields

John Lennon

The Beatles

Deep South of
US (African
American)

Born Under
A Bad Sign

William Bell
Booker Jones

Albert King

South of
Appalachian
mountains

Coat Of Many
Colors

Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton

Rio de Janeiro,

The Boy From

United States

United States

Antonio Carlos
Jobim and

Woody Herman

Diana Krall

11. Salsa
12. Rhythm &
Blues

13. Reggae

14. Punk

15. Disco

16. Cumbia

17. Hard Rock

18. Glam Rock

-more sophisticated harmonically than samba but with less percussive sound
-popularized in the 50s-60s
-means sauce in Spanish that connotes the spiciness of Latin cuisine
-implies a hot, furious, and wild musical experience
-common instruments: congas, bongos, maracas, bass, pianos, trumpets, and
trombones.
-first used to describe recordings for urban African-Americans
-used to refer gospel and soul music, it was a term that refers to or made by and
for Black Americans.
-Jamaican music genre which originated from ska and rocksteady (music genre
that has calypso, American jazz, and R&B styles
-means rags, ragged and also ragged music
-style has an offbeat rhythm, syncopated, and staccato chords
-means beginner or novice is a rock music developed during the 70s
-originated from the garage rock (a perception of amateur singers who practice in
garage) and protopunk music (another form of rock n roll music)
-uses simple melody and simple chords
-instruments: guitars, piano and drums
-derived from discotheque, a French word for a library of phonograph records
-has the styles of funk, Latin and soul
-soaring and reverberated or echoed vocals
-syncopated electric bass line
-courtship dance of the Columbian natives (slaves brought to Columbia fr Africa)
-now in sophisticated arrangements using modern instruments like clarinet,
accordion, piano, bongos, and horns
-basic rhythm is in duple meter; structure time signature
-loud and forceful music
-has a touch of blues and rock n roll style but played with more intensity and
harder sound
-vocalists produce growling, wailing, screaming and falsetto voice
-(glitter rock) musical style where performers wear glamorous and extravagant
costume, heavy makeup and hair style
-has its influence in rock n roll, hard rock, and cabaret music genres
-AKA Prog and is referred to as classical rock
-developed from psychedelic rock music in attempt to give greater weight and

Brazil

Ipanema

Cuba

Quimbara

Junior Cepada

Celia Cruz

United States

Hit The
Road Jack

Percy Mayfield

Ray Charles

Kingston,
Jamaica

Roots Rock
Reggae

Vincent Ford

Bob Marley

US, UK and
Australia

London Calling

Joe Strummer
Mick Jones

The Clash

Dancing Queen

Benny Andersson
Bjorn Ulvaceus
Stig Anderson

ABBA

East Coast,
United States

Noman Gimbel

Caribbean Coast
of Columbia &
Panama

La Pollera
Colora

Wilson Choperena

Dimas Sandoval

US & UK

Paranoid

Osbourne, Iommi,
Ward, Butler

Black Sabbath

United
Kingdom

Blockbuster

Nicky Chinn and

Mike Chapman

The Sweet

19. Progressive
Rock
20. Heavy Metal
21.Contemporar
yR&B
22. Hip Hop and
RAP

23. Alternative
Rock

24. Electronic
Music

25. NU Metal

26. OPM
27. Inspirational
/ Spiritual
/Religious

importance to rock music;

-does not follow the formal popular format of verse-chorus-verse type of
composition
-its roots are from the blues and psychedelic music distinct sound produce are
massive, thick, and characterized by highly amplified distortion, emphatic rhythm,
and generally loud sounds
-combination of music styles like funk, pop, hip hop, soul, and R&B music
-vocals it use a melisma style (singing singles syllable to several notes in
succession)
-also called Rap music
-had the influence of the genres like R&B, reggae, funk, and even disco music
-rhythmic music used to accompany rapping (rhythmic speech with rhyme that is
being chanted)
-genre of rock music with the music of punk, new wave, and hardcore punk as its
stylistic origin
-distorted sound of guitar
- use of transgressive lyrics (offensive lyrics, defiant/rebellious attitude)
-any composition recorded or played using all electronic musical instruments and
make use of electronic technology
-electromechanical instruments used are electric guitar, hammond organ,
teleharmonium, together with the electronic devices such as synthesizer, computer
and thermin
-subgenre of heavy metal
-combination of the sound, influences, and characteristics of heavy metal, which
also include groove metal, alternative metal, hip hop, grunge, and funk
-gives emphasis on rhythms, distorted guitars (creating warm, fuzzy, and dirty
sound), and power chords (playing root note and fifth intervals)
-Original Pinoy Music or OPM for short
-originally referred only to Philippine pop songs, particularly ballads, such as
those popular after the collapse of its predecessor, the Manila Sound of the late
1970s
-generally Christian songs that were created by African slaves in the United States
-originally unaccompanied monophonic (unilson) songs, they are best known
today in harmonized choral arrangements

US & UK

Wish You
Were Here

David Gilmour
Roger Waters

Pink Floyd

US & UK

Soldierhead

Jason Newsted

Newsted

Vision Of Love

Mariah Carey
Ben Marguiles

Mariah Carey

Justin Franks
Charlie Puth
Cameron Thomaz

Wiz Khalifa
Charlie Puth

North America

The Bronx,
New York City

See You Again

US & UK

Demons

United States

Baby

California,

Bring Me

United States

To Life

Philippines

Maghihintay
Ako

Enslaved
Africans in the
United States

Steal Away
To Jesus

Imagine Dragons
Alex da Kid
Christopher
Bridges/Steward
Justin Bieber
C Milian
Jerily Nash

Imagine
Dragons

Justin Bieber
Ludacris

Amy Lee
Ben Moody
David Hodges

Evanescence

Dante Bantatua

Jona

Wallace Willis

Willard White