disco music

of dance-oriented music whose origins, like other genres of music, are hard to place at a single defining point. In what is considered a forerunner to disco style clubs in February 1970 New York City DJ David Mancuso opened The Loft, a members-only private dance club set in his own home. Most agree that the first disco songs were released in 1973, but some claim Manu Dibango's 1972 Soul Makossa to be the first disco record.
The first article about disco was written in September 1973 by Vince Aletti for Rolling Stone Magazine.
In 1974 New York City's WPIX-FM premiered the first disco radio show.

Musical influences include funk, soul music, and salsa and the Latin or Hispanic musics which influenced salsa.The disco sound has a soaring, often reverberated vocals over a steady four-on-the-floor beat, an eighth note (quaver) or sixteenth note (semi-quaver) hi-hat pattern with an open hi-hat on the off-beat, and prominent, syncopated electric bass line. Strings, horns, electric pianos, and electric guitars create a lush background sound. Orchestral instruments such as the flute are often used for solo melodies, and unlike in rock, lead guitar is rarely used.

Well-known late 1970s disco performers included Evelyn "Champagne" King, Tavares, Chic, Bee Gees, Donna Summer, Grace Jones, Gloria Gaynor, Diana Ross, the Village People, Sylvester, and The Jacksons. While performers and singers garnered the lion's share of public attention, the behind-the-scenes producers played an equal, if not more important role in disco, since they often wrote the songs and created the innovative sounds and production techniques that were part of the "disco sound".Many non-disco artists recorded disco songs at the height of disco's popularity, and films such as Saturday Night Fever and Thank God It's Friday contributed to disco's rise in mainstream popularity and ironically the beginning of its commercial decline.

jazz

Jazz is an American musical art form which originated around the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions. The style's West African pedigree is evident in its use of blue notes, call-and-response, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation, and the swung note of ragtime.

From its early development until the present, jazz has also incorporated music from 19th and 20th century American popular music, which is based on European music traditions.The word jazz began as a West Coast slang term of uncertain derivation and was first used to refer to music in Chicago in about 1915; for the origin and history, see Jazz (word).

Jazz has, from its early 20th century inception, spawned a variety of subgenres, from New Orleans Dixieland dating from the early 1910s, big band-style swing from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s, a variety of Latin-jazz fusions such as Afro-Cuban and Brazilian jazz from the 1950s and 1960s, jazz-rock fusion from the 1970sPublicar entrada and later developments such as acid jazz.

Jazz

Stylistic origins:	Blues and other folk musics, Ragtime, marching bands, 1910s New Orleans.
Typical instruments:	Saxophone – Trumpet – Trombone – Clarinet – Piano – Guitar – Double bass – Drums – Vocals
Mainstream popularity:	1920s–1960s
Subgenres
Avant-garde jazz – Bebop – Cool jazz – Free jazz – Gypsy jazz – Hard bop – Jazz fusion – Latin jazz – Mainstream jazz – Modal jazz – M-Base – Smooth jazz – Swing – Trad jazz – Third stream
Fusion genres
Acid jazz – Asian American jazz – Bossa nova – Calypso jazz – Crossover jazz – Jazz blues – Jazz fusion – Jazz rap – Punk jazz – Soul jazz – Nu jazz – Smooth jazz
Regional scenes
Australia – Brazil – France – India – Italy – Japan – Malawi – Netherlands – Poland – South Africa – Spain – United Kingdom
Local scenes
Dixieland – Kansas City jazz – West Coast jazz
Jazz musicians
Bassists – Clarinetists – Drummers – Guitarists – Organists – Pianists – Saxophonists – Trombonists – Trumpeters
Other topics
Jazz standard – Jazz royalty – Jazz (word)– Jazz clubs – Jazz drumming

Blues and other folk musics, Ragtime, marching bands, 1910s New Orleans. Typical instruments: Saxophone – Trumpet – Trombone – Clarinet – Piano – Guitar – Double bass – Drums – Vocals Mainstream popularity: 1920s–1960s Subgenres Avant-garde jazz – Bebop – Cool jazz – Free jazz – Gypsy jazz – Hard bop – Jazz fusion – Latin jazz – Mainstream jazz – Modal jazz – M-Base – Smooth jazz – Swing – Trad jazz – Third stream Fusion genres Acid jazz – Asian American jazz – Bossa nova – Calypso jazz – Crossover jazz – Jazz blues – Jazz fusion – Jazz rap – Punk jazz – Soul jazz – Nu jazz – Smooth jazz Regional scenes Australia – Brazil – France – India – Italy – Japan – Malawi – Netherlands – Poland – South Africa – Spain – United Kingdom Local scenes Dixieland – Kansas City jazz – West Coast jazz Jazz musicians Bassists – Clarinetists – Drummers – Guitarists – Organists – Pianists – Saxophonists – Trombonists – Trumpeters Other topics Jazz standard – Jazz royalty – Jazz (word)– Jazz clubs – Jazz drumming

classical music

The classical music starts at approximately 1750 (death of JS Bach) and ends around 1820. The classical music itself coincides with the time called classicism, as in other arts it was the rediscovery and copies of the classics of Greco Roman art, which was considered traditional or ideal.

Classical music is a broad term that usually refers to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 9th century to present times. The central norms of this tradition became codified between 1550 and 1900, which is known as the common practice period.

European classical music is largely distinguished from many other non-European and popular musical forms by its system of staff notation, in use since about the 16th century. Western staff notation is used by composers to prescribe to the performer the pitch, speed, meter, individual rhythms and exact execution of a piece of music. This leaves less room for practices, such as improvisation and ad libitum ornamentation, that are frequently heard in non-European art music (compare Indian classical music and Japanese traditional music), and popular music.

Its main exponents are Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven the first (Beethoven represents a turning nut in the evolution of tonal music, going ever further away from the center called tonal. It is at this point begins when the romantic era in the history of music).

INSTRUMENTATION
None of the bass instruments existed until the Renaissance. In Medieval music, instruments are divided in two categories: loud instruments for use outdoors or in church, and quieter instruments for indoor use. Many instruments which are associated today with popular music used to have important roles in early classical music, such as bagpipes, vihuelas, hurdy-gurdies and some woodwind instruments. On the other hand, the acoustic guitar, for example, which used to be associated mainly with popular music, has gained prominence in classical music through the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Classical period falls between the Baroque and the Romantic periods. The best known composers from this period are Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven; other notable names include Luigi Boccherini, Muzio Clementi, Johann Ladislaus Dussek, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and Christoph Willibald Gluck. Beethoven is also sometimes regarded either as a Romantic composer or a composer who was part of the transition to the Romantic; Franz Schubert is also something of a transitional figure