外国音乐种类

Types of Music:

Classical

Classical music is complex and layered and beautiful but it is not spontaneous.

Tribal

It is spontaneous, emotive, danceable and easy to make.

Hip Hop

Hip Hop is the newest form of music out there and so far we have only seen the tip of the iceberg in terms of its capabilities. People often call Jazz the only American Art form…I would tend to agree with this but Hip Hop is a close second place. Beats, Rhymes, Life…what else could you want?

Blues

Bands that play the blues are usually not very good. The blues are a personal thing, and should usually be played by some guy who is very ugly and is half full of whiskey. Without this how can you have the blues…can good-looking people get the blues? They can, but they have to be on heroin.

Rock

It is very hard to argue with Rock & Roll. In many ways it is a lot like Christianity. It involves icon with long hair, and people have been predicting and attempting to initiate its demise since it began. But like Christianity Rock seems here to stay for a little while anyway. So every time a young man picks up a guitar and preaches the gospel of rock it will survive.

Jazz

As was mentioned before, Jazz is the only true American art form. Improvisational, cool, sexy, angry, sad, happy, jazz has it all, and nobody can touch jazz for its amalgam of styles and variations. If music is alive jazz is the air that music breathes.

Dance

Dance music is music for people who don’t know anything about music.This is perfectly all right though, because dance music is for dancing, not for contemplating. A good dance track gets into your core and possesses you. A bad dance track is what they play when you are waiting to get into hell.

Country

Country gets a bad rep, but there isn’t a more humble, fun loving and sincere brand of music out there. Basically it is story telling and if you don’t like a good story you probably have no soul.And if you have no soul, enjoy your bad dance music.

Folk

Folk is supposed to be the music of the people. Something that everyone can relate to via some sort of common experience. Lately this meaning has been perverted to mean that one has to play an acoustic guitar to play folk. This is crap. If you have something to say and you want to put music to your thoughts, that is folk.

Metal Music

Metal music emerged post World War II. Metal music was described as music that arises from the dissatisfied. Metal music is heavily influenced by the structure of the songs. While in rock music, songwriting is based within a form; in metal music the central melody decides the structure of the song. A scientist has described metal music as ‘information music’.

Rap Music

Rap music is a creation of an American minority. It was widely believed the rap music, as a fad will not see the test of time…. But it has already been around for nearly 20 years. Rap music can be traced to the West African professional singers and storytellers. Rap music was an offshoot of the Hip Hop culture – characterized by graffiti and break dancing. Rap music has been influenced considerably by Jamaican music. The Bronx in New York City was the originating hub of rap music.

Types of Western Music 欧美音乐类型

1. 什么是R&B？R&B的全名是Rhythm & Blues，一

般译作"节奏怨曲"。广义上，R&B可视为“黑人的流行

音乐”，它源于黑人的Blues音乐，是现今西方流行乐

和摇滚乐的基础。Billboard杂志曾介定R&B为所有黑

人音乐，除了Jazz和Blues之外，都可列作R&B，可

见R&B的范围是多么的广泛。近年黑人音乐圈大为盛

行的Hip Hop和Rap都源於R&B，并且同时保存着不

少R&B成分。