Music tree
This is a quest to classify music by genres.
For now, I added a genre tree:
This is far from finished. I've just started workin on it
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NAME |
PERIOD /
COUNTRIES |
SUBGENRES |
DIFFERENTIA
SPECIFICA |
INSTRUMENTS,
TECHNIQUES |
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AMBIENT |
1970s – present
UK, DE, US, EU |
Ambiental
Downtempo (Downbeat)
Lowercase (Minimalist)
Soundtracks
Nature Sounds
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PURPOSE=AMBIENT.
This is ambiental
music, for clubs, bars, lounges, relaxation, chillout. This kind
of music is not ment to go mainstream, but to run
undistinguished in the background |
Ambient music is
a musical genre in which sound is more important than notes. It
is generally identifiable as being broadly atmospheric and
environmental in nature.
Ambient music
evolved from early 20th century forms of "semi-audible music",
from the impressionism of Erik Satie, through musique concrete
and the minimalism of Terry Riley and Philip Glass, and Brian
Eno's deliberate sub-audible approach.
Later
developments found the dreamy non-linear elements of ambient
music applied to some forms of rhythmic music presented in "chillout"
rooms at raves and other dance events, but always with the
primary feature that the music is intended to drift in and out
of the listener's awareness while creating its effect on the
listener's consciousness. |
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NEW AGE |
1960s – present
EU, US |
Yoga
Reiki
Taichi
New Gregorian
Meditation &
Relaxation
Erotic
Massage
New Age
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SPIRITUAL COMPONENT, PURPOSE=....
New Age music is
peaceful music of various styles that is intended to create
relaxation and positive feelings. Some but not all new age music
is associated with New Age beliefs. New Age music is typically
relaxing and inspiring, and is often used by listeners for such
activities as yoga, massage, meditation, reading, as a method of
stress management or to create a peaceful atmosphere in their
home or other environments. |
The harmonies in
new age music are generally modal, consonant, or include a drone
bass. The melodies are often repetitive, to create a hypnotic
feeling, and sometimes recordings of nature sounds are used as
an introduction to a track or throughout the piece. Songs of up
to 30 minutes duration are not uncommon.
New Age music
includes both electronic forms, frequently relying on sustained
pads or long sequencer-based runs, and acoustic forms, featuring
instruments such as flutes, piano, acoustic guitar and a wide
variety of non-western acoustic instruments. In many cases,
high-quality digitally sampled instruments are used instead of
natural acoustic instruments. Vocal arrangements were initially
rare in New Age music but as it has evolved vocals have become
more common, especially vocals featuring Sanskrit, Tibetan or
Native American-influenced chants, or lyrics based on mythology
such as Celtic legends or the realm of Faerie. |
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CLASSICAL
EUROPEAN |
1400-2000
EU |
''1400-1600 –
RENAISSANCE
1600-1760 –
BAROQUE
''1730-1820 –
CLASSICAL
''1815-1910 –
ROMANTIC
''1890-1940 –
IMPRESSIONISM
''1900-1975 –
MODERN
''1975-today –
CONTEMPORARY
OPERA
BALLET
TENORS
VIRTUOSO
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TECHNIQUES &
HISTORY.
Classical music
is a broad term that usually refers to music produced in, or
rooted in the traditions of Western ecclesiastical and concert
music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 9th century
to present times. The central norms of this tradition became
codified between 1550 and 1900, which is known as the common
practice period. |
European
classical music is largely distinguished from many other
non-European and popular musical forms by its system of staff
notation, in use since about the 16th century. Western staff
notation is used by composers to prescribe to the performer the
pitch, speed, meter, individual rhythms and exact execution of a
piece of music. This leaves less room for practices, such as
improvisation and ad libitum ornamentation, that are frequently
heard in non-European art music (compare Indian classical music
and Japanese traditional music), and popular music |
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CLASSICAL
INDIAN
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INDIAN
SUBCONTINENT |
Carnatic
Hindustani
Raga ·Thaat ·Melakarta
· Katapayadi sankhya
Śruti · Swara ·
Saptak
Tala · Mudra ·Gharana |
PURPOSE, TECHNIQUE, MUSICAL ALPHABET, HISTORY, REGION.
Indian classical music
has its origins as a meditation tool for attaining self
realization. All different forms of these melodies (Ragas) are
believed to affect various "chakras" (energy centers, or
"moods") in the path of the Kundalini. However, there is little
mention of these esoteric beliefs in Bharat's Natyashastra, the
first treatise laying down the fundamental principles of drama,
dance and music. The Samaveda, one of the four Vedas, created
out of Riga-Veda so that its hymns could be sung as Samagana,
established its first pop. |
Hindustani
classical music has its origin as a form of meditation, though
available mainly to an elite audience.
Indian classical
music has one of the most complex and complete musical systems
ever developed. Like Western classical music, it divides the
octave into 12 semitones of which the 7 basic notes are Sa Re Ga
Ma Pa Dha Ni Sa, in order, replacing Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do.
However, it uses the just intonation tuning (unlike Western
classical music which uses the equal temperament tuning system).
Indian classical
music is monophonic in nature and based around a single melody
line which is played over a fixed drone. The performance is
based melodically on particular ragas and rhythmically on talas. |
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CLASSICAL
JAPANESE |
JP |
Gagaku
Ongaku
Saibara
Komagaku
Togaku
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PURPOSE,
TECHNIQUE, MUSICAL ALPHABET, HISTORY, REGION.
Gagaku (literally
"elegant music") is a type of Japanese classical music that has
been performed at the Imperial court for several centuries. |
It consists of
three primary bodies:
Native Shintoist
religious music and folk songs, called saibara
A Goguryeo and
Manchurian form, called komagaku (named for Koma, one of the
Three Kingdoms)
A Chinese form
(specifically Tang Dynasty), called togaku.
Gagaku, like
shomyo, employs the Yo scale, a pentatonic scale with ascending
intervals of two, three, two, and two semitones between the five
scale tones.
By the 7th
century, the gakuso (a zither) and the gakubiwa (a short-necked
lute) had been introduced in Japan from China. Various
instruments including these two were the earliest used to play
gagaku.
Komagaku and
togaku arrived in Japan during the Nara period (710-794), and
settled into the basic modern divisions during the Heian period
(794-1185). Gagaku performances were played by musicians who
belonged to hereditary guilds. During the Kamakura period
(1185-1333), military rule was imposed and gagaku was performed
in the homes of the aristocracy, but rarely at court. At this
time, there were three guilds based in Osaka, Nara and Kyoto.
Because of the
Ōnin War which was a civil war from 1467 to 1477 during the
Muromachi period, gagaku in ensemble had been stopped playing in
Kyoto for about 100 years. In the Edo era, Tokugawa government
re-organized the court style ensemble which is the direct roots
of the present one.
After the Meiji
Restoration of 1868, musicians from all three guilds came to
Tokyo and their descendants make up most of the current Imperial
Palace Music Department. By this time, the present ensemble
style which consists of three wind instruments i.e. hichiriki,
ryūteki, and shō (bamboo mouth organ used to provide harmony)
and three percussion instruments: kakko (small drum), shoko
(metal percussion), and taiko (drum) or dadaiko (huge drum),
supplemented by gakubiwa, gakuso had been established.
Classical dance
(called bugaku) also often accompanies gagaku performances, and
both are used in religious ceremonies by the Tenrikyo movement
and a few Buddhist temples[2]. |
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CLASSICAL
Other |
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PURPOSE, TECHNIQUE, MUSICAL ALPHABET, HISTORY, REGION.
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ANCIENT &
MEDIEVAL
Europe |
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#385bC-357 -
ANCIENT GREEK
#1150-1250 - ARS
ANTIQUA (polyphonic)
#1150-1375 -
TROUBADOURS, TRUVERES, GOLIARDS
#1300-1400 - ARS
NOVA (France)
#1300-1400 -
GEISSLERLIDER (Germany)
#1300-1400 -
TRECENTO (Italy)
#1350-1450 - ARS
SUBTILIOR
#1500-1900 - SEA
SHANTEYS, PIRATE BALLADS
#1960-....... -
CELTIC
#1900-....... -
MODERN REMAKES
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PURPOSE,
TECHNIQUE, MUSICAL ALPHABET, HISTORY, REGION.
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RELIGIOUS
Asian |
Asia |
Buddhist Chant
Shomyo
Theravada chants
Mahayana chants
Vajrayana chants
Other chants
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PURPOSE, SPIRITUAL COMPONENT, REGION. |
Shōmyō (声明)
is a style of Japanese Buddhist chant, used mainly in the Tendai
and Shingon sects.[1] There are two styles: ryokyoku and
rikkyoku, described as difficult and easy to remember,
respectively.
Shomyo, like
gagaku, employs the Yo scale, a pentatonic scale with ascending
intervals of two, three, two, two, and three semitones. |
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RELIGIOUS
Christian
MEDIEVAL |
EU, US |
#400
-1100 - EARLY CHANT (Mozarabic, Beneventan, Gaellic...)
#600
-1300 - CELTIC CHANT
#900
-1100 - GREGORIAN CHANT (monophonic)
#1200-1600 -
ARMENIAN CHANT
#1900-....... -
MODERN GREGORIAN CHANT
Gospel
Christian pop
Byzantine music |
PURPOSE,
SPIRITUAL COMPONENT, REGION. |
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RELIGIOUS
Muslim |
The muslim world |
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PURPOSE, SPIRITUAL COMPONENT, REGION. |
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RELIGIOUS
Other |
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Christian music
Hindu music
Sikh music
Jewish music
Rastafarian music
Afro-Caribbean
music
Shintō music |
PURPOSE,
SPIRITUAL COMPONENT, REGION. |
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ETHNIC
African |
Africa |
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The
REGION/CULTURE, maybe also some techniques, specific rhythms,
dances etcs. |
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ETHNIC
Asian |
Asia |
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The
REGION/CULTURE, maybe also some techniques, specific rhythms,
dances etcs. |
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ETHNIC
Australia &
Oceania |
Australia &
Oceania |
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The
REGION/CULTURE, maybe also some techniques, specific rhythms,
dances etcs. |
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ETHNIC
European |
EU |
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The
REGION/CULTURE, maybe also some techniques, specific rhythms,
dances etcs. |
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ETHNIC
Indian |
Indian
subcontinent |
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The
REGION/CULTURE, maybe also some techniques, specific rhythms,
dances etcs. |
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ETHNIC
Latino |
The latino world |
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The
REGION/CULTURE, maybe also some techniques, specific rhythms,
dances etcs. |
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ETHNIC
Country |
US, CA |
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The
REGION/CULTURE, maybe also some techniques, specific rhythms,
dances etcs. |
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ETHNIC
Oriental |
The muslim world |
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The
REGION/CULTURE, maybe also some techniques, specific rhythms,
dances etcs. |
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ETHNIC
Slavic |
The slavic world |
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The
REGION/CULTURE, maybe also some techniques, specific rhythms,
dances etcs. |
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ETHNIC
Romanian |
RO |
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The
REGION/CULTURE, maybe also some techniques, specific rhythms,
dances etcs. |
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REGGAE |
1960s, Jamaica,
Caribbeans |
Roots reggae -
Dub - Dub poetry - Toasting - Lovers rock - Dancehall – Ragga -
Drum and bass - Dancehall - Reggaeton - Seggae - 2 Tone |
The
REGION/CULTURE, TECHNIQUE
(RHYTHM), spiritual component.
Reggae is based
on a rhythm style characterized by regular chops on the
off-beat, known as the skank. The tempo is generally slower than
that found in ska. Reggae usually has accents on the 3rd beat in
each bar, there being four beats in a bar; many people think
it's accentuated on the 2nd and 4th, because of the rhythm
guitar. |
Reggae is often
associated with the Rastafari movement, an influence on many
prominent reggae musicians from its inception. Reggae song
lyrics deal with many subjects, including faith, love,
relationships, poverty, injustice and other broad social issues |
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DANCES
(Street &
Ballroom) |
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The
PURPOSE=DANCE.
This music is
essentially for dancing. It appeared initially in a localised
culture, but many achieved mainstream popularity, and some
became standards for ballroom dancing |
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BLUES |
US |
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The
TECHNIQUE.
Blues is a vocal
and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue
notes and the blues bars. |
It emerged in
African-American communities of the United States from
spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and
rhymed simple narrative ballads. The use of blue notes and the
prominence of call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics
are indicative of African influence. The blues influenced later
American and Western popular music, as it became the roots of
jazz, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, bluegrass, hip-hop, and
other popular music forms.
The twelve-,
eight-, or sixteen-bar structure based on tonic (I), subdominant
(IV) and dominant chords (V) became the most common forms. What
is now recognizable as the standard 12-bar blues form is
documented from oral history and sheet music appearing in
African American communities throughout the region along the
lower Mississippi River, in Memphis, Tennessee's Beale Street,
and by white bands in New Orleans. |
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JAZZ |
US, EU |
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The
TECHNIQUE, HARMONY.
Jazz is based on
improvisation, use of blue notes, call-and-response,
improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation, and the swung note of
ragtime.
While jazz may be
difficult to define, improvisation is clearly one of its key
elements. While in European classical music elements of
interpretation, ornamentation and accompaniment are sometimes
left to the performer's discretion, the performer's primary goal
is to play a composition as it was written. |
Jazz is an
American musical art form which originated around the beginning
of the 20th century in African American communities in the
Southern United States from a confluence of African and European
music traditions. The style's West African pedigree is evident
in its use of blue notes, call-and-response, improvisation,
polyrhythms, syncopation, and the swung note of ragtime.
From its early
development until the present, jazz has also incorporated music
from 19th and 20th century American popular music, which is
based on European music traditions. The word jazz began as a
West Coast slang term of uncertain derivation and was first used
to refer to music in Chicago in about 1915; for the origin and
history, see Jazz (word).
Jazz has, from
its early 20th century inception, spawned a variety of
subgenres, from New Orleans Dixieland dating from the early
1910s, big band-style swing from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from
the mid-1940s, a variety of Latin-jazz fusions such as
Afro-Cuban and Brazilian jazz from the 1950s and 1960s,
jazz-rock fusion from the 1970s and later developments such as
acid jazz. |
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ROCK |
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HEAVY METAL
PUNK ROCK
ALTERNATIVE ROCK
INDUSTRIAL
PSYCHEDELIC
ROCK’n’ROLL |
The INSTRUMENTS,
ATTITUDE, POPULARITY |
Rock music is a
form of popular music with a prominent vocal melody, accompanied
by guitar, drums, and bass. Many styles of rock music also use
keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, mellotron, and
synthesizers. Other instruments sometimes utilized in rock
include saxophone, harmonica, violin, flute, banjo, melodica,
and timpani. Also, less common stringed instruments such as
mandolin and sitar are used. Rock music usually has a strong
back beat, and often revolves around the guitar, either solid
electric, hollow electric, or acoustic.
Rock music has
its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll and rockabilly, which
evolved from blues, country music and other influences.
According to the All Music Guide, "In its purest form, Rock &
Roll has three chords, a strong, insistent back beat, and a
catchy melody. Early rock & roll drew from a variety of sources,
primarily blues, R&B, and country, but also gospel, traditional
pop, jazz, and folk. All of these influences combined in a
simple, blues-based song structure that was fast, danceable, and
catchy."[1]
In the late
1960s, rock music was blended with folk music to create folk
rock, blues to create blues-rock and with jazz, to create
jazz-rock fusion, and without a time signature to create
psychedelic rock. In the 1970s, rock incorporated influences
from soul, funk, and latin music. Also in the 1970s, rock
developed a number of subgenres, such as soft rock, heavy metal,
hard rock, progressive rock, and punk rock. Rock subgenres that
emerged in the 1980s included synthpop, hardcore punk and
alternative rock. In the 1990s, rock subgenres included grunge,
Britpop, indie rock, and nu metal.
A group of
musicians specializing in rock music is called a rock band or
rock group. Many rock groups consist of a guitarist, lead
singer, bass guitarist, and drummer, forming a quartet. Some
groups omit one or more of these roles and/or utilize a lead
singer who plays an instrument while singing, forming a trio or
duo; others include additional musicians such as one or two
rhythm guitarists and/or a keyboardist. More rarely, groups also
utilize stringed instruments such as violins or cellos, and/or
horns like saxophones, trumpets or trombones.
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POP & DISCO |
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POPULARITY |
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ELLECTRONIC
DANCE MUSIC |
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The INSTRUMENTS,
POPULARITY |
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HIP HOP |
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The TECHNIQUE,
POPULARITY |
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DRUM’N’BASS |
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The LACK OF
MELODIC LINE |
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R’n’B &
SOUL |
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The VOICE
TECHNIQUE, POPULARITY |
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