Country Music

Country music is a genre of American popular music that originated in the rural regions of the Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from the southeastern genre of American folk music and Western music. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instruments such as banjos, electric and acoustic guitars, fiddles, and harmonicas.
The term country music gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to the earlier term hillbilly music; it came to encompass Western music, which evolved parallel to hillbilly music from similar roots, in the mid-20th century. The term country music is used today to describe many styles and subgenres. In 2009 country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, and second most popular in the morning commute in the United States.

Examples of Country Music
      The Sweetest thing - Juice Newton

      Bop- Dan Seals

      Little Red Rodeo - Collin Raye 

      "If Bubba Can Dance (I Can Too)" - Shenandoah

     "I Don't Call Him Daddy" - Doug Supernaw

     "What's Forever For" - Michael Martin Murphey 

  
            Sounds oldies but that's how they rock!!! :)

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music
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Classical Music

Johann Christian Bach, Ledwig van Beethoven, Franz Joseph haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus

The word Classical has strong connotations, conjuring up the art and philosophy of Ancient Greece and Rome along with their ideals of balance, proportion and disciplined expression. The late Baroque style was polyphonically complex and melodically ornate. The composers of the early Classical period changed direction, writing music that was much simpler in texture.
Homophony–music in which melody and accompaniment are distinct–dominated the Classical style, and new forms of composition were developed to accommodate the transformation. Sonata form is by far the most important of these forms, and one that continued to evolve throughout the Classical period. Although Baroque composers also wrote pieces called sonatas, the Classical sonata was quite different.
One of the most important developments of the Classical period is the growth of the public concert. Although the aristocracy would continue to play a significant role in musical life, it was now possible for composers to survive without being the employee of one person or family. This also meant that concerts were no longer limited to palace drawing rooms. Composers started organizing concerts featuring their own music, and often attracted large audiences. The increasing popularity of the public concert had a strong impact on the growth of the orchestra. Although chamber music and solo works were played in the home or other intimate settings, orchestral concerts seemed to be naturally designed for big public spaces. As a result, symphonic music (including opera and oratorio) became more extroverted in character. Composers gradually expanded the size of the orchestra to accommodate this expanded musical vision.

Example of Classical Music

Air on the G String by Bach

                                                              Bach

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart

                                                            Mozart
Flight of the Bumble Bee by Rimsky- Korsakov

                                            

Rimsky Korsakov

Children's Music

Children's music is music composed and performed for children by adults. In European-influenced contexts this means music, usually songs, written specifically for a juvenile audience. The composers are usually adults. Children's music has historically held both entertainment and educational functions. Children's music is often designed to provide an entertaining means of teaching children about their culture, other cultures, good behavior, facts and skills. Many are folk songs, but there is a whole genre of educational music that has become increasingly popular.

Here are some examples of children's song

• Three Little Mice
• Lullaby
• Six little Snails
• Mistress Mary

• Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars

• The man in the moon
• Little Bo-Peep
• The Lazy Cat

Blues

Blues is an African-American music that has a wide range of emotions and musical styles. “Feeling blue” is expressed in songs whose verses lament injustice or express longing for a better life and lost loves, jobs, and money. Blues is also a wild dance music that celebrates pleasure and success. Its concept is to  overcome sadness and lose the blues.Historically, the popularity of blues coincides with the rise of the commercial recording industry, the introduction of “race” records aimed at black record-buyers after 1920, and the emigration of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North. The “country blues,” usually considered an earlier form of the genre, was actually recorded in the mid-1920s.Blues remains with us in contemporary American culture, and as a traditional musical form it has been subjected to countless revivals and reinterpretations. Its current practitioners often integrate the sounds and instrumental pyrotechnics of rock music and the sheen of urban soul; but the twelve-bar form, variations on the blues chord progression, and emotive lyrical content remain relatively unchanged.

Examples of  Blues Artists

                 Robert Cray

                      John Lee Hooker

             Etta James

Examples of Blues Songs

•              Five Long Years - Canned Heat/Memphis Slim
•              You're Changin'- Michael Bloomfield
•              Introduction-Etta James
•              Doctor Blues- Otis Spann
•              Unlucky One- Sunnyland Slim

Alternative Music (Music Genre)

Alternative music was a phrase invented in early 80s describing bands which broke from the barrage of pop and hair metal and formed a new direction of more focused and honest rock. It includes many subcategories including but not limited to; Grunge, Hard Rock, Rock, Experimental Rock, Progressive Rock, Gothic Rock, Punk Rock, Hardcore Punk, New Wave. Alternative rock music is really a name given to rock music that didn’t fit any other genre. However, the technical meaning is usually any rock music that descended from punk rock. The popularity of alternative rock music came about after the grunge period. Grunge was a type of alternative rock music that denounced commercialism. 

Example of Alternative Music Bands 

Example of Alternative Music

•   The Scientist- Cold Play
•   Buzzcut Season- Lorde
•   Cough Syrup- Young the Giant
•   Safe and Sound- Capital Cities
•   I will Wait- Mumford and Sons
•  Alone Together- Fall Out Boy

Music Genres

Music comes with different styles. Some may be pleasing to others, and some may not. But the assurance is that people love music based on the genre they appreciate. We can express what we feel through these different genres which also fits with our mood.

Here are the list of different genres.

Alternative

Anime

Blues

Children’s Music

Classical

Comedy

Country

Disney

Easy Listening

Electronic

Enka

French Pop

German Folk

German Pop

Fitness and Workout

Hiphop/Rap

Holiday

Indie Pop

Industrial

Inspirational- Christian or Gospel

Instrumental

J-pop

Jazz

K-pop

Karaoke

Kayokyoku

Latino

New Age

Opera

Pop

R&B/Soul

Reggae

Rock

Singer/Song Writer

Soundtrack

Spoken Word

Vocal    

World