Music genres

A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or…

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A ballade, in classical music since the late 18th century, refers to a setting of a literary ballad, a narrative…

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Absolute music (sometimes abstract music) is music that is not explicitly "about" anything; in contrast to program music, it is…

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In visual arts, music, and other mediums, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II Western art,…

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Absolute music (sometimes abstract music) is music that is not explicitly "about" anything; in contrast to program music, it is…

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A pastoral lifestyle is that of shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing…

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An idyll or idyl, is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral…

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