Learn Credit concepts -Styles and Forms
Dixieland | Boogie woogie | Impressionist | Minimalist | Aleatoric | Classical Music | Scherzo | Cantata | Oratorio | Passion | Chorale | Hymn Tune | Recitative | Chorus | Aria | Pibroch | Soul | Country | Indian
| The original Jazz which came from St Louis and the Deep south of America and originated from the black American Slaves from the plantations. The line up for this kind of band consisted of Trumpet, Clarinet, Trombone and a rhythm section of String Bass, Drums, Piano and or banjo. | ||
| A distinctive style of piano jazz playing made famous by Fats Domino the American Jazz Pianist. | ||
| A style of music from the early 20th Century which attempted to imitate in sound what artists such as Monet and Degas did with paint. by giving an impression of a scene or story. Much of this music used the whole tone scale. e.g. the works of Debussy. | ||
| A 20th Century style of music based on repeated patterns of notes,e.g. several ostinati played at the one time. Listen to Music of Stephen Adams - ”Shaker Loops” | ||
Chance music, random music, Music which is just made up without any real plan. Listen to an example |
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Music composed between 1750 - 1815 approx. is called classical music. Main composers were Mozart and Haydn and Beethoven's early music. The excerpt is by Mozart. |
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| Literally means a joke, a very fast movement, with three beats in the bar which replaced the Minuet in the Symphony at the end of the classical period . | ||
| Generally a short vocal composition accompanied usually by an orchestra (and continuo in the Baroque period), which tells a story through the us of recitative, aria and chorus. In the 17th & 18th centuries there were two types. Cantata da Cheisa, religious text for church use, and Cantata da Camera, secular text for Concert performance. Listen to this example of a chorale by Bach from Cantata. | ||
| An extended composition which usually had text based of Bible stories, and contained recitative, aria, duets and choruses. Listen to an example of a chorus. | ||
| An oratorio which is based on the ‘Passion’, the Crucifixion of Christ. Listen to an excerpt from the final chorus of the St John Passion by J.S.Bach. | ||
| A German Lutheran church hymn much favoured by J.S.BACH in many of his religious compositions, many of his Cantatas are built around these compositions. Listen to this example of a chorale. | ||
| Music which is sung by the congregation at a church service. | ||
A declamatory style of singing in which the main points of the plot in an Oratorio, Opera or Cantata are made to the listener. |
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| A choir, usually of mixed voices, s.a.t.b. who take part in most compositions such as Opera, Oratorio and Cantata, and play the part of the mob or onlookers etc. and support the principal singers. | ||
| A solo song from a Opera or Oratorio. It is usually quite long and gives added information to the story, the main points of which are told in Recitative. This example is from an Italian Opera, 'La Boheme' | ||
| The classical music of the Bagpipe which consists of a ground and a series of variations. | ||
| The pop Music of the Black American people which developed from early Blues and Jazz styles. | ||
| Music which developed out of the cowboy culture of of the USA. | ||
The many styles of music which have come from India which includes the music of the Sitar and Tabla. |