Types of music around the world

1. MUSIC

2. Music, art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental
sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, usually
according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in
most Western music, harmony. Both the simple folk song and
the complex electronic composition belong to the same
activity, music. Both are humanly engineered; both are
conceptual and auditory, and these factors have been present
in music of all styles and in all periods of history, throughout
the world.

3. Music is an art that, in one guise or another, permeates every human
society. Modern music is heard in a bewildering profusion of styles,
many of them contemporary, others engendered in past eras. Music is
a protean art; it lends itself easily to alliances with words, as in song,
and with physical movement, as in dance. Throughout history, music
has been an important adjunct to ritual and drama and has been
credited with the capacity to reflect and influence human emotion.

4. Popular culture has consistently exploited
these possibilities, most conspicuously today
by means of radio, film, television, musical
theatre, and the Internet. The implications of
the uses of music in psychotherapy,
geriatrics, and advertising testify to a faith in
its power to affect human behavior.
Publications and recordings have effectively
internationalized music in its most
significant, as well as its most trivial,
manifestations. Beyond all this, the teaching
of music in primary and secondary schools
has now attained virtually worldwide
acceptance.

5. Music can be divided into genres (e.g., country music) and
genres can be further divided into subgenres (e.g., country
blues and pop country are two of the many country
subgenres), although the dividing lines and relationships
between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open
to personal interpretation, and occasionally controversial.
For example, it can be hard to draw the line between some
early 1980s hard rock and heavy metal.

6. Within the arts, music may be
classified as a performing art, a
fine art or as an auditory art.
Music may be played or sung
and heard live at a rock concert
or orchestra performance,
heard live as part of a dramatic
work (a music theater show or
opera), or it may be recorded
and listened to on a radio, MP3
player, CD player, smartphone
or as film score or TV show.

7. ETYMOLOGY
The word, 'music' is derived
from Greek (mousike; "art of
the Muses")In Greek
mythology, the nine Muses
were the goddesses who
inspired literature, science,
and the arts and who were
the source of the knowledge
embodied in the poetry, song-
lyrics, and myths in the Greek
culture.

8. POPULAR MUSIC GENRES
Nearly all of the most
important genres of popular
music in the last century have
come from the USA. This is
where African and European
musical traditions came
together, and it's this mixture
of traditions that gave birth to
popular music.

9. BLUES
When millions of Africans were transported
to America as slaves in the 18th and 19th
centuries, their melodies and rhythms went
with them. They knew that singing together
made working easier, and it was in these
work songs that African rhythms and
melodies were preserved until slavery
ended in 1865. Many African Americans
became Christians and sang hymns in
church. Others learned to play popular
songs and dance tunes for money.

10. JAZZ
Most African American musicians only played
blues, but some played classical music as well
and learned European harmony. Some even
mixed European harmony with the rhythms and
scales of blues, and it was from this mixture
that "jazz" was born. One of jazz's greatest
musicians was the trumpet player Louis
Armstrong, who helped to develop many styles
of jazz.

11. CLASSICAL MUSIC
It’s art music produced or rooted in the traditions of
Western culture, including both liturgical (religious)
and secular music. While a more precise term is also
used to refer to the period from 1750 to 1820 (the
Classical period), this article is about the broad span
of time from before the 6th century AD to the
present day, which includes the Classical period and
various other periods.

12. POP MUSIC
is the genre of popular music
that produces the most hits. ...
Songs that become hits almost
always share certain features
that are sometimes called the
pop-music formula. They have a
good rhythm, a catchy melody,
and are easy to remember and
sing along to.

13. ROMANTIC MUSIC
Romantic music is a stylistic movement
in Western orchestral music associated
with the period of the nineteenth
century commonly referred to as the
Romantic era (or Romantic period).