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European and American pop music styles

R & ampB

The full name of R & ampb is "Rhythm &; Blues ",generally translated as rhythm grievances. R &; in a broad sense; B can be regarded as "black pop music", which originated from black blues music and is the basis of pop and rock now. Billboard magazine once defined R&; B is all black music, except jazz and blues, which can be classified as R&; B, visible R &;; How wide is the scope of B. Hip Hop and Rap, which are very popular in the black music circle, originated from R&; Save a lot of research and development expenses during research and development. Component B.

house

House is a dance music developed from disco in 1980s. This is music played by DJ in Chicago. They mixed the records of the German electronic band Power Plant Orchestra with regular drum beat and black blues songs to make "House". Generally translated into house dance music, it is the most basic form of electronic dance music, with a rhythm of 4/4 beats. Every beat of the drum is accompanied by a simple melody, and there are often high-pitched female voices singing. After DISCO became popular, some DJs changed, deliberately making DISCO less commercialized, making the buttocks and drums deeper, and often becoming 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 a house? In other words, you can make this kind of music at home as long as you have simple recording equipment. House is also the most acceptable electronic music. Cher's Believe is a good example. And M- people can be said to be a representative group of houses. House dance music became popular on 1986, which can be said to have replaced disco music.

britpop

Although BritPop has a word "Pop", it is actually a kind of rock and roll, 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 British pop music are actually very extensive. For example, Oasis is a guitar rock band, Blur is a lot of POPs, and Pulp is close to Glam Rook and dance style, but they are all classified as Britpop.

Jumping car

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. Go and see the street dancers. Most of them dance to hip-hop music. ) Slow down (sometimes very slowly), add some psychedelic flavor, such as gloomy and heavy bass, slightly psychedelic synthetic sound effects, or sample some records, and sometimes even deliberately sample the noise of records. The so-called "Trip" means a psychedelic and dense drug "journey", so Trip-Hop is an adagio. 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.

Gunst rap music

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

Synthetic pop music

Synth in Synth Pop, that is, synthesizer, as the name implies, Synth Pop is "popular music concocted by synthesizer". Of course, besides synthesizer, computers, drums and other electronic instruments are also used. 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.

orchestra

The orchestra is an orchestra, which is divided into four parts:

1. Strings, including violin and cello,

2, brass music

3. Woodwind Music and Harmony

4. Four groups of 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.

Indoor pop music

Chamber music refers to an elegant, noble and exquisite pop music with a certain sense of classical music. 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 Balle &; Sebastian and so on. Some are from Huang Yaoming, some are from Peng Ling, some are diversified, and so on.

Folk songs (ballads)

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 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. After that, Peter Seager and the weavers continued to promote this kind of music. In the Vietnam War in the 1960s, anti-war folk singers such as Bob Dylan, Joan Bates, Peter and Paula Mary became the voices of the times. After folk songs developed into pop, rock and urbanization, BOBDYLAN invented folk rock, Simon &; Garfinkel has developed a middle-class urban folk pop music, which has been popular for some time. In 1980s, Suzanna Vega, tracy chapman, etc. +Out of a more urban/contemporary folk song route. Folk songs (folk songs) have also developed different faces in music circles such as Britain and Hong Kong. The recent development of folk songs (ballads) is the combination with the new era (such as ENYA) and the triad (such as Bethesda).

Posanovo dance

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 JOBIM music, which became very popular after being introduced to the United States in the mid-1950s. Other famous Bosanova musicians include CHARLIEBYRD, STANGETZ and ASTRUD GILBERTO. The most famous song is The Girl from Ipanema. Bosanova was the most popular in the 1960s, and fans kept coming in other years.

Classical pop music

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 of the Beatles. Some works by the Australian band CROWDEDHOUSE can also fall into this category. If we say classic pop, we mean classic pop music.

Acabella (unaccompanied harmony)

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. The most familiar cappella song in Hong Kong is SOMUCHINLOVE, and the Hong Kong cappella band has Jisheng Yashi and so on.

World music

World music is a vocabulary from a western perspective, which refers to non-English, American and western folk/pop music. Usually refers to the traditional music in developing or backward areas, such as Africa and South Asia. Music in some areas, such as Latin America, can be popularized into its own type. Today's world music usually refers to the mixture of improved traditional regional music and western music. KINGSUNNYADE in Africa, DONBYRON in Eastern Europe, Zhu Zheqin in China and NUSRATFATEHALIKAHN in Pakistan are all world musicians familiar to western music fans.

Dream pop le

DREAM-POP is a kind of "dreamy" pop music with a blurred atmosphere, which is mostly caused by synthesizers (electronic synthesizers), and the electric guitar with echo effect is also an important part. The singing part is often' breath', that is, the lyrics are often poetic and dreamy. Representative bands include COCTEAUWINS, LISAGERMANO, ST.ETIENNE, THISMORTALCOIL, MYBLOODYVALENTINE, MAZZYSTAR, DEADCANDANCE, etc. Chinese singers are headed by Faye Wong, whose masterpieces include Lost and Dida.

new era

The new era is a kind of quiet, comfortable and leisurely music. Pure music works account for a large proportion, while singing accounts for less. The new era can be purely acoustic (that is, played with traditional spontaneous acoustic instruments) or very electronic. The key point is to create a calm atmosphere of nature or a feeling of the vastness of the universe, to wash the listener's mind and make people calm. The new era is usually associated with music therapy. A lot of new age music says that it can cure diseases, and many of them are related to meditation, which has a lot to do with new age philosophy. New age music is usually regarded as middle class music. WIND HAMHILL is the most representative record company of NEWAGE, which represents musicians such as ENYA, george winston, wilhelm ackermann, Yani and Chittaro.

electronic music

What is electronic music? With the evolution of the times, musicians have more ways to create music. The so-called electronic music is to make music with electronic sounds generated by electronic synthesizers, music software and computers. Electronic music has a wide range and can often be heard around life. It is used in movie soundtrack, advertising soundtrack and even some popular songs in Mandarin, but electronic dance music is the most important. Many people think that electronic music is a kind of heartless music. In fact, electronic music can also be integrated into rock.

technology

Technology is high-tech dance music! Using computers and synthesizers to make some special sound effects, this kind of music is often composed of many sound effects. Techno's beat is also 4/4 beat, but it is faster than House's, and it sounds repetitive, tough and mechanized, so some people call Techno industrial noise, but others still pay attention to melody. Techno originated in Detroit, USA, and there are three DJs: Derek May. Kevin Sanders Juan Atkins tried to combine electronic music with black music to create Detroit electronic music. Detroit Techno is usually mild, not as strong as ordinary Techno, which can be said to be the origin of modern Techno.

environmental

It doesn't sound like much ups and downs, but it keeps changing. For example, long-term sound effects or gradual music arrangement often create a layered sense of space, so it is called situational music. It often samples the sounds around life, such as human voices, car noises and even the melodies of other music ... It was created by Briano in the 1970s and is a very profound electronic music. Later, Ambient also had branches, such as Ambient House, Ambient Techno ... and so on. I believe everyone can understand it literally. In fact, there will be the shadow of Ambient in many kinds of music, and even some classical music has the taste of Ambient.

be lost in thought

Psychedelic dance music, evolved from Techno, will make you feel in a trance, but it still keeps the rhythm of the dance music and pays great attention to the expression of bass. Some will have hypnotic effect after listening, and the beat is mainly 4/4 beat, but there are also some Breakbeat (which will be introduced below), such as SvenVath's album Fusion.

Psychedelic trance state

Also known as Goa trance, it originated from an island in India. Goa is the name of this island, and its melody often has Indian flavor. This trance-like state is characterized by attaching great importance to the subtle changes between melody and notes, and there are often melodies overlapping, resulting in high-pitched TB-303 sound and a little environmental sound.

beat

Unlike House's boom-boom-boom, it is presented in a broken beat, just like the syncopated beat. For example, two beats plus a small broken drum and so on. Breakbeat is just a general term, and there are many kinds of music belonging to Breakbeat. For example, the following Brit-Hop, Big-Beat and Black Hip-Hop are one kind of Brit-Hop, which speeds up the rhythm of Black Hip-Hop and aggravates the drums. With a little electric guitar and bass, it has the flavor of rock music, such as the style of TheChemicalBrothers.

Big beat

The big beat makes Brit-Hop faster, more rhythmic and more rock and roll. It can be said that it is a more mature style after the improvement of Brit-Hop. You can imagine what a heavy, broken and somewhat fast beat looks like. For example, Extraordinary Orchestra, Chemical Brothers Orchestra and Fat Slim are the big speakers of Big Beat. What are drums and bass? For some people, the music of drum bass may be annoying, because drum bass pays great attention to rhythm skills and bass performance, such as fast and complicated beats, and using different electronic drums or sampled drum sounds. Therefore, the drum set is also a broken beat. Heroes are drums.

forest

The jungle is the predecessor of drums and bass. The jungle is much faster than the drum bass, and the beat is more complex and tough, sometimes with a little rap. Unlike the drum bass, which combines some elements such as jazz and soul music, it sounds softer (of course, this is compared with the jungle). Even DavidBowie, the rock chameleon, started to go into the jungle. What is an electron? As early as the late 1970s and early 1980s, there were no House, Techno ... and electronic music was not so popular, only electronic music such as electro. Electronic sound can be said to be music made by a synthesizer, which looks a bit like a keyboard and is usually quite soft. Moreover, the drum machine TR-808 of Roland Company is often used to make drums. The power plant orchestra in Germany can be regarded as a representative. Electronic timbre is brighter and more transparent than before. Later, some DJs turned electronic music into a kind of hip-hop music, which was called OldSchool. FatboySlim (streamlined fat boy) also mixed some electronic music and old-school music in his music.

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Dub can be said to be reggae (reggae, also called reggae, is a kind of South American black music with a very rhythmic sense and a special singing style). The application of Dub in electronic music is to extract some songs, emphasize bass and drums, and add many Echo effects. This technique is often used in live performances, and songs are mixed. For example, the album "Protection of MassiveAttack" was remixed from Trip-Hop music to Dub version by MadProfessor.

Calm down

This is just a general statement. Next to the dance floor, there is often an area, or a small room, where some relaxing and calm music will be put, so that dancers can relax after dancing, mainly playing ambient music, so it is called chill. TheOrb can be said to be a master of cold music.

minimum programme

This is translated into mini music style and is often heard in environmental music and electronic music. Minimalist music has repetitive melody and special rhythm, which makes you feel hypnotized by special frequency. JeffMills's work belongs to MinimalDetroit-Techno, which is quite psychedelic.