ROCK

Rock music is a form of popular music with a prominent vocal melody, accompanied by guitar, drums, and bass. Many styles of rock music also use keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, mellotron, and synthesizers. Other instruments sometimes utilized in rock include saxophone, harmonica, violin, flute, French horn, banjo, melodica, and timpani.

Rock music has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll and rockabilly, which evolved from blues, country music and other influences.

A group of musicians specializing in rock music is called a rock band or rock group. Many rock groups consist of a guitarist, lead singer, bass guitarist, and drummer, forming a quartet.

• Rock as a counterculture movement (1963-1974)

Folk rock(Bob Dylan, Neil Young)

Psychedelic rock(Grateful Dead, Big Brother & the Holding Company,The Beatles)

Progressive rock(Pink Floyd, Deep purple)

Soft rock(Elton John, Billy Joel)

• The mid to late 70s

Hard rock & heavy metal( The Rolling Stones,Led Zeppelin,Metallica,Aerosmith,Black Sabbath)

Punk rock(The Ramones, Sex Pistols)

New Wave(Talking Heads, Devo)

Post-punk(Public Image Ltd,Joy Division)

• Rock diversifies in the 1980s

Glam metal(Kiss,Bon Jovi, Guns ´N Roses)

Instrumental rock(Steve Vai, Eric Johnson)

Alternative rock(R.E.M., The Cure)

• Alternative goes mainstream (Early-mid 1990s)

Grunge(Nirvana)

Britpop(Oasis, Radiohead, Blur)

• Success of hybrid genres

Pop punk(Green Day, The Offspring, Blink 182, Sum 41)

Post-grunge(Foo Fighters, Creed)

Nu metal and Rapcore/Rap rock(System of a Down, Limp Biskit, Rage Agains The Machine, Linkin Park, POD)

• Present day (2000-present)

Garage rock revival(The White Stripes, The Hives, The Strokes)

Post-punk revival(The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol)

Emo(Alexisonfire, My Chemical Romance, Panic! at the Disco)

Metalcore(Atreyu, Avenged Sevenfold)

Psycho Music

Psycho is a 1960 suspense/horror film directed by auteur Alfred Hitchcock, from the screenplay by Joseph Stefano about a psychotic killer. It is based on the novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, which was in turn inspired by the crimes of Wisconsin murderer Ed Gein.

The film depicts the encounter between a secretary, Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), who is in hiding at a motel after embezzling from her employer, and the motel's owner, the lonely Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins).

It initially received mixed reviews but outstanding box-office returns, prompting a re-review which was overwhelmingly positive and led to four Academy Award nominations. Regarded today as one of Hitchcock's best films and highly praised as a work of cinematic art by international critics, Psycho is also acclaimed as one of the most effective horror films.

It was a genre defining film, and almost every scene is legendary, and many have been copied or parodied. The film spawned several sequels and a remake, which are generally seen as works of lesser quality.

Psycho

Psycho

The heavy metal

•Heavy metal (often referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion and extended guitar solos.

Heavy metal has long had a worldwide following of fans known as "metalheads" or "headbangers." Although early heavy metal bands such as Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple.

heavy metal is a major subspecies of hard-rock the breed with less syncopation, less blues, more showmanship and more brute force.

Some of bands the new generation such a:
•Mudvayne
•Korn
•Metallica
•Slipknot
These are the most popular in this time.

Electronic Music

Electronic music refers to music that emphasizes the use of electronic musical instruments or electronic music technology as a central aspect of the sound of the music.

Historically, electronic music was considered to be any music created with the use of electronic musical instruments or electronic processing, but in modern times, that distinction has been lost because almost all recorded music today, and the majority of live music performances, depend on extensive use of electronics.

Today, the term electronic music serves to differentiate music that uses electronics as its focal point or inspiration, from music that uses electronics mainly in service of creating an intended production that may have some electronic elements in the sound but does not focus upon them.

Contemporary electronic music expresses both art music forms including electronic art music, experimental music, musique concrète, and others; and popular music forms including multiple styles of dance music such as techno, house, trance, electro, breakbeat, drum and bass, synth pop, etc.
A distinction can be made between instruments that produce sound through electromechanical means as opposed to instruments that produce sound using electronic components.

OPERA

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work (called an opera) which combines a text (called a libretto) and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery and costumes and sometimes includes dance.

Opera started in Italy at the end of the 16th century (Jacopo Peri's lost Dafne, produced in Florence about 1597) and soon spread through the rest of Europe.


The first third of the 19th century saw the highpoint of the bel canto style, with Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini all creating works that are still performed today. The mid to late 19th century is considered by some a golden age of opera, led by Wagner in Germany and Verdi in Italy.


The 20th century saw many experiments with modern styles, such as atonality and serialism (Schoenberg and Berg), Neo-Classicism (Stravinsky), and Minimalism (Philip Glass and John Adams). With the rise of recording technology, singers such as Enrico Caruso became known to audiences beyond the circle of opera fans. Operas were also performed on, (and written for) radio and television.


Though opera patronage has decreased in the last century in favor of other arts and media, such as musicals, cinema, radio, television and recordings, mass media has also supported the popularity of famous singers such as Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, and Jose Carreras ("The Three Tenors").


FAMOUS SINGERS AT THIS TIME:

• SARA BRIGHTMAN


• GIUSEPPE DI STEFANO


• ALFRED KRAUS


• RENE FLEMING


• RAMON VARGAS


• FRANCO CORELLI


• FRANCISCO ARAIZA


• PAUL POTTS


• ANDREA BOCELLI
  
  
  
  
  

Rhythm and Blues

Rhythm and blues (also known as R&B or RnB) is a popular music genre combining jazz, gospel, and blues influences, first performed by African American artists.
Writer/producer Robert Palmer defined "rhythm & blues as a catchall term referring to any music that was made by and for black Americans."

He has used the term R&B as a synonym for jump blues. Lawrence Cohn, author of Nothing but the Blues, writes that rhythm and blues was an umbrella term invented for industry convenience. According to him, the term embraced all black music except classical music and religious music, unless a gospel song sold enough to break into the charts.

POP

POP MUSIC.

Is a genre that, aside from the instrumentation and technology used for its creation, retains the formal structure "verse - chorus - verse," executed in a simple manner, melodic, catchy, and often likened to the general public . Its major differences with other musical genres are clear and melodic voices in the foreground and percussion linear and repeated. It started in the twentieth century in England, in the 60's.

Historically, the term "pop music" was not understood as a musical genre with specific characteristics. What music catalogued as "Pop" apocope "folk music" was understood as the opposite of worship music, classical music. Under this definition came as genres, the funky, folk and even jazz.

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958, Gary, Indiana).

Known simply as Michael Jackson is a singer, dancer and composer of American hard rock music, rhythm and blues (soul and funk), disco and dance. After forming in the sixties, while still a child, a group of great success in the company of his brothers, The Jackson Five, in the decade of the eighties became the superstar rock most successful globally because the extraordinary impact of his Thriller album (1982), the best-selling album in the history of music. The media, but especially their fans, called him frequently as king of pop ( "king of pop"), a term referring not only to the type of music that makes its impact but also popular and media around the world, though course is a subjective term that many others reject.

Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone of Ritchie (b. August 16, 1958).

Better known as Madonna, is a singer, composer and producer of American pop music and dance primarily. He has worked on a more intermittent as an actress, fashion designer and writer, and has recently made his debut as film director. Nicknamed as "The Queen of Pop" (The Queen of Pop) U.S., is a popular international icon of the past three decades, a point that even his detractors acknowledge him. It's a rock star [1] known for reinventing her image, by ambition, innovation and provocation in their music videos and shows, and also because of its controversial and personal use of symbols by political, religious and sexual along their career.

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of

Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.

Reggae is based on a rhythm style characterized by regular chops on the off-beat, known as the skank. The tempo is generally slower than that found in ska. Reggae usually has accents on the 3rd beat in each bar, there being four beats in a bar; many people think it's accentuated on the 2nd and 4th, because of the rhythm guitar.

Reggae is often associated with the Rastafari movement, an influence on many prominent reggae musicians from its inception. Reggae song lyrics deal with many subjects, including faith, love, relationships, poverty, injustice and other broad social issues. The music style is sometimes referred to as JAH Throne music in Rastafari contexts. In the Caribbean, the heavier forms of reggae are also sometimes known as Rockers music.

Gregorian Chant

Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic liturgical chant of Western Christianity that accompanied the celebration of Mass and other ritual services. This vast repertory of chants is the oldest music known as it is the first repertory to have been adequately notated in the 10th century. In general, the chants were learnt by the viva voce method, that is by following the given example orally, which took many years of experience in the Schola Cantorum. Gregorian chant originated in Monastic life, in which singing the 'Divine Service' nine times a day at the proper hours was upheld according to the Rule of St. Benedict. Singing psalms made up a large part of the life in a monastic community, while a smaller group and soloists sang the chants. In its long history Gregorian Chant has been subjected to many gradual changes and some reforms.

Hip Hop

Hip hop music is a genre of music typically consisting of a rhythmic style of speaking called rap over backing beats performed on a turntable by a DJ. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latinos (two other elements are breakdancing and graffiti art).

The term rap is sometimes used synonymously with hip hop music, though it originally referred only to rapping itself.

Rapping, also referred to as MCing or emceeing, is a vocal style in which the performer speaks rhythmically and in rhyme, generally to a beat. Beats are traditionally sampled from portions of other songs by a DJ, though synthesizers, drum machines, and live bands are also used, especially in newer music. Rappers may perform poetry which they have written ahead of time, or improvise rhymes on the spot. Though rap is usually an integral component of hip hop music, DJs sometimes perform and record alone, and many instrumental acts are also defined as hip hop.

Time line

Medieval Music

Medieval (c.1150 - c.1400)

This is the first period where we can begin to be fairly certain as to how a great deal of the music which has survived actually sounded. The earliest written secular music dates from the 12th century troubadours (in the form of virelais, estampies, ballades etc.), but most notated manuscripts emanate from places of learning usually connected with the church, and therefore inevitably have a religious basis.

Gregorian chant and plainsong which are monodic (i.e. written as one musical line) gradually developed during the 11th to 13th centuries into organum (i.e. two or three lines moving simultaneously but independently, therefore almost inadvertently representing the beginnings of harmony). Organum was, however, initially rather stifled by rigid rules governing melody and rhythm, which led ultimately to the so-called Ars Nova period of the 14th century, principally represented by the composers de Vitry, Machaut, and Landini.

Rock and Roll

Consequently music must have been in existence for at least 50,000 years and the first music must have been invented in Africa and then evolved to become a fundamental constituent of human life.

Rock-and-Roll (räk'n roll') n. first so used (1951) by Alan Freed, Cleveland disc jockey, taken from the song "My Baby Rocks Me with a Steady Roll". The use of rock, roll, rock and roll, etc., with reference to sexual intercourse, is traditional in blues, a form of popular music that evolved in the 1950's from rhythm and blues, characterized by the use of electric guitars, a strong rhythm with an accent on the offbeat, and youth-oriented lyrics.

A form of popular music arising from and incorporating a variety of musical styles, especially rhythm and blues, country music, and gospel. Originating in the United States in the 1950s, it is characterized by electronically amplified instrumentation, a heavily accented beat, and relatively simple phrase structure.

History of Music

Music is found in every known culture, past and present, varying wildly between times and places. Scientists now believe that modern humans emerged from Africa 160,000 years ago.

Around 50,000 years ago these humans began to disperse from Africa reaching all the habitable continents. Since all people of the world, including the most isolated tribal groups, have a form of music, scientists conclude that music must have been present in the ancestral population prior to the dispersal of humans around the world.