Subject Matter and Musical Art Forms

Subject Matter
and Musical Art

Forms
According to Function
 Sacred Music - chants and hymns used in religious rites

 Secular Music - usually for entertainment
According to Singing Style
 Monophony - singing with one melody

 Polyphony - singing with more than one melody
Types of
Music
Classical Music
This is a serious or conventional music following long-established principles.
Kinds of Classical Music

1. Cantata. A work for choir or chorus and usually with an orchestra.
2. Concerto. A long piece of music usually in several movements, for a solo
instrument and an orchestra.
3. Madrigal. A piece of music for several singers in which each singer has a separate
part and may sing different words from other singers.
Kinds of Classical Music
4. Minuet. Originally a dance that became a piece of instrumental music.
5. Nocturne. A short piano piece with a quiet reflective mood. Nocturne means night
piece.
6. Oratorio. A large work for a big choir or chorus or even two choirs, several solo
singers, and an orchestra.
7. Passion. An oratorio based on the biblical stories of the suffering, death and
resurrection of Christ.
8. Serenade. A piece of music intended for evening performance.
9. Sonata. A piece that is played rather than sung, but mainly a long work for one or
two instruments with several movements.
10. Symphony. A long work for orchestra, sometimes including a chorus and solo
singers in several movements.
Country Music
Country music is music that developed from Southern American folk and
western cowboy music in the rural regions of the Southern United States in
the 1920s. Dance tunes and ballads with harmonies and simple form played
with banjoes, acoustic and electric guitars, harmonicas and fiddles.
Electronic Music
The term Electronic music today suggests that the character and quality of
the music is synthetic, the music is created and manipulated by electronics
instead of performance by acoustic instruments. This type of music began
about 1942 when Pierre Schaeffer put up what is believed to be the first
Electronic music studio using a mixture of recorded normal sounds, variable
speed tape recorders, phonographs and microphones.
Jazz
At the beginning of the 20th century, African American communities in
southern areas of the United States invented Jazz music, which is a
combination of European and African music traditions. The distinction of
African undertones is clear in the mixture of blue notes, polyrhythms,
improvisation, syncopation, and the swing note.
Latin Music
Latin music naturally originates from the broader Latin world, mainly from
Latin America with fusions by Latinos of the United States as well as genres
from European countries such as Portugal and Spain. Language, the cultural
background of the artist, geography and music style is the main elements that
define Latin music. These four elements fuse in different ways usually with a
combination of two or more of the main elements to give a production the
Latin Music Tag.
Pop Music
Often, pop music is confused with popular music. Whereas Pop music
describes music that evolved from the rock and roll revolution of the middle
1950s and continues in a definite route today, popular music refers to music
that is associated with the tastes and interests of the urban middle class
during the period covering 1800s and industrialization to date. From the
1950s until today, Pop music is identified as the hits most often played on
radio, that which attracts the largest audiences, sells the most copies, and the
musical styles that displayed by the biggest audience therefore it is really an
amalgam of whatever is popular at any given moment and doesn’t represent
any specific genre.
Metal
Metal music is characteristic of powerful and loud bass drums and aggressive
electric guitars. It was developed in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and
early 1970s and also in the United States. The words are usually about
provocative and controversial themes. Metal music fans are referred to as
head bangers and metal heads.
Punk
Developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, United Kingdom,
and Australia, Punk Music is a type of Rock Music Genre based on Garage
rock Protopunk music. Bands made hard-edged songs that were short,
political, antiestablishment with stripped down instrumentation.
Rap Music
It originated among African-Americans’ inner-city street culture in the 1970s.
Rap is considered as a mainstream type and is popular among people of all
ages and background around the world. Rap music is generally not sung. The
words are spoken with a backdrop of music borrowed from soul, funk and
rock pieces.
Reggae
Reggae Music arose from Jamaica in the late 1960s. Reggae Music refers to
a style that developed from Ska and Rock Steady.
Rhythm and Blues (R&B)
This is a genre of popular music that originated in African American
communities in the 1940s.
Rock Music
This is a popular music that evolved from rock and roll and pop music during
the mid and late 1960s.

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Subject Matter

and Musical Art

 Sacred Music - chants and hymns used in religious rites

According to Singing Style

 Monophony - singing with one melody

This is a serious or conventional music following long-established principles.

Kinds of Classical Music

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