This category holds subcategories for various styles of music, as well as sites concerned with the way genres, types, and styles may be organized.
Characterizing performers and performances by style makes the vast subject of music easier to discuss and understand. Styles may include genres such as classical, rock and jazz; subgenres such as classical / opera, rock / metal, and jazz / ragtime; and types of music such as choral, Native American, and holiday. Genres may be defined by technical aspects such as instrumentation, harmony, melody, rhythm, and form, or according to schemes devised by writers and critics. Music types may be defined by these criteria as well as others such as subject matter, chronology, or performance context, and may cut across genre lines.
Brief explanation of the way styles can be defined by region, chronology, technical requirements, marketing trends, or the ideas of critics. Extensively linked to sub-genres and examples of significant artists. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_genre
Links to articles and representative artists of styles such as pop, rock, blues, folk, classical, theater, jazz, and world music. www.amc.net/links/genres.html
Text lists and links to library resources such as books, periodicals and recordings on women performers and composers by musical genre. scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/mugenre.html
Hundreds of sub-genres defined in non-technical language mentioning sample artists. Organized under headings such as pop, hip-hop, jazz, blues, classical, Latin, modern rock, rock, and heavy metal. www.audiogalaxy.com/list/glossary.php
Self-described "Guide to Good Music" from a group founded in 1991 to support the music of singer Happy Rhodes. Links to artists, almost entirely female vocalists, sorted by genre such as pop, blues, experimental, performance art, beautiful and fierce, and ectoguide.org/genre
Research project completed in 2003 by Mitali Banerjee at Rice University used automatic process to determine musical genre of audio samples. cnx.rice.edu/content/m11690/latest
Children's site with simple definitions of a few genres including rock, Celtic, and classical with artist and site links. datadragon.com/education/genres
Categorized links organized by researchers at the William and Gayle Cook Music Library. Unusual categories include 20th-Century music, ancient music, band music, tango, flamenco, ragtime, and choral music. www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/genres.html
Journal of New Music Research article from 2003 discusses manual, prescriptive, and emergent approaches to genre classification for the European CUIDADO project, Content-Based Unified Interfaces and Descriptors for Audio/Music Databases Available Online. www.idiap.ch/../../../music/genre_classification/pachet-02c.pdf
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