1, 1) What is R & B?
The full name of R & B is Rhythm & Blues, which is generally translated as "rhythm complaint" or "rhythm Bruce". On the broad, R & B can be seen as "black pop music", it is from black BLUES music, which is the foundation of today's Westbound Popular music and rock music. Listening to R & B, how wide range of R & B is available. HIP HOP and RAPs with great prevalence in the black music circle are from R & B, and there are many R & B components.
(1, 2) What is HOUSE?
House is a dancing music that has been developed in Disco in the 1980s. This is the music of Chicago's DJ, they put the rhythm of a record of German electronic orchestrat Kraftwerk and the rhythm of the electronic drums and black blue-tone songs in one. House will be generated ~ General translation as "Hao Room "Dance, for the most basic type of electronic dance music, the rhythm of 4/4 shots, one shot, with simple melody, often have a high-raceful female voice sing. After disco is popular, some DJ changed it, and the heart will be DISCO It has become more irritated, BASS and drops become deeper, and it has become a pure music work, even if there is a singing part, there are short sentences that are sang by the dance female singer, often there is no clear lyrics. Gradually, some people have added the elements such as Latin (Latin), Reggae (Rig ", RAP (Singing) or Jazz (Jazz), and House rushed out of the underground range to Chicago, New York And the pet of the London popular list.
Why is it called "house"? That is, as long as you have a simple recording equipment, you have to do this music at home ~ House is also the most easily accepted by everyone.
The believe singed by Cher is a good example. M-people can be said to be House represents a group. House dancer after 1986, it can be said to replace DISCO music.
House can be divided into:
Acid House is also House music that combines the Acid sound of TB-303
Deep House has a quite thick soul singing chamber, and it is called Garage, quite popular. Like REAL MECOY, M-People, La Bouche is Garage group.
Hard House briefly, is a heavier, fierce House.
PROGRESSIVE HOUSE This type of House does not have a soul singing chamber, but more focuses on melody and music programming. There is a house like "playing". The album like Sash! It's my life is a good Progressive House album.
Epic House is "Epic" House. Epic House has beautiful, smooth melody and pounds, rarely have Vocal in it (almost no!). BT's music is great EPIC House, and he is also It is called "Epic House Emperor". In fact, Rock also has "EPIC ROCK"
Trible House imagined: House with an African original style or the Indian people's drums? This is Trible House ~ This kind of House has except for the general HOUSE stable rhythm, will join Some of the original features, zero drums. Pretty interesting ~ However, House is too wide, everyone does not have to classify a song. These just tell everyone, House many kinds. "
In the 1990s, House has reduced the predecessor, trend color, but still is very popular.
[Teaching] European and American music everyone listening (2)
(2, 1) What is BritPop?
Although BRITPOP has a "POP" word, it is actually a root of Rock, from the 1990s, English can be translated into "English rock", which is a response to the US Grunge tide, mainly with a band The form appears. However, the BritPop style is in fact, such as Oasis is a rock band, BLUR is a lot of POP, while PULP is close to Glam Rook and dancing style, but they are all listed as BritPop. British BritPop Representative: Oasis, Blur, Suede, Pulp, Radiohead
(2, 2) What is Trip-Hop?
Trip-Hop is a kind of British / European dance music, its name source is "Trip Hip-Hop = Trip-Hop" because it originated from Britol from British, so it was called "Bristol Hip-Hop". Since HIP-HOP (in fact, many music is architectures on hip-h ... I don't know if it is hip-hop to see the dancing of the street dance, they are jumping with hip-hop music.) Rhythm Slow (sometimes slow) add some psychedelic taste, such as very gloomy, hypertroph, slight but psychedelic synthetic sound, or some records, sometimes the noise of the record will be "deliberate" Sampling. The so-called "trip", refers to a psychic, and a drug [journey], Trip-Hop is a psychedelic, with jazz feeling, confused, with points Hip-Hop rhythm. Break beat music. Although it is affiliated to dance music, its psychedelic confused feature has made it jumps generally dancing music all clear section features.
Foreign Trip-Hop Representative: Trip-Hop recognized iron triangle Ortishead, Tricky, Massive Attack, Mandalay Moloko, Coldcut
(2, 3) What is Gangsta Rap?
Gangsta RAP is a kind of RAP, with more than the urban crime, full of violence, and the feeling of color, which is a music road to reality. Gangsta Rap raised in the United States in the end of the 1980s, the strong sharp part in the music RAP, is popular in the United States, and the record sales are very high. Many gangsta rap music itself really "participates in" reality all kinds of crimes, and some is more prison and even death, can be said to be real reflecting reality and shocking music.
Gangsta RAP Table Combination: ICE-T, Ice Cube, Dr. DRE, SNOOP Doggy Dogg, 2 Pac, Geto Boys
(2, 4) What is SYNTH POP?
"Synth" in SYNTH POP, namely Synthesizer, as the name, Synth Pop is "popular" by SythesizRS, "Of course, other electronic musical instruments such as computer and drums are used in addition to Synthesizers. SYNTH POP began in the early 1980s and began to silence in the 1980s. In Hong Kong, it has also set off a boom in Hong Kong. Synth POP is characterized by strong technology, sometimes it is cold, and the song is mostly "3-minutes POP), and there are many time-up when SYNTH POP will work.
SYNTH POP Represents Combination: Depeche Mode, Human League, Duran Duran, OMD, Gary Numan (2,5) What is Orchestra?
Orchestra is a orchestra, which is divided into four parts: 1 string, including violin, cello, etc. 2 bronze tube 3 wood tube music and 4 tap music four groups. String groups have many people playing (except harp), and the four groups of players are coordinated by one person. He is the command of the orchestra. Orchestra appeared in the 17th century, and it is clearly established by the 18th century because of Hydden and Mozart's work. In the 19th century, some new musical instruments were added, and the number of orchestras was increased. Orchestra is the authenticity of Western classical / orthodox music. Western popular / rock music also often uses some or all of the members of Orchestra to assist the performance.
(2, 6) What is Chamber Pop?
Chamber Pop refers to an elegant, noble, exquisite pop, which has a certain classical music. Chamber Music's word from classical music, Chinese called "indoor music", is a small group of strings, and the atmosphere is elegant. Chamber POP raised in the 1990s and is a reaction to the LO-FI and GRUNGE at the time, emphasizing a beautiful melody, exquisite soundtrack, clean recording, every multi-string, and tube make the music feeling of the Baroque era. The foreign representative band has the Divine Comedy, Rialto, Eric Matthews and Balle & Sebastian, etc. Hong Kong has Huang Yaiming, partial Pengchao, partial multiplex, etc.
(2, 7) What is folk song?
Folk originally refers to the traditional songs of each nation. Every nation has their own songs from the original / ancient existing songs. Most of these songs don't know who is the author, and in verbal communication, one The pass of 10 passers-by, the generation of one generation has passed down to this day. However, today, the folk songs, mostly referring to folk songs in the era of popular songs, which is mainly based on the wooden knot, sing in a natural fashionable manner, sang everyone's simple life feelings. Songs. The American singer Woody Guthrie can be said to be the earliest folk song record, so it is generally identified as a ancestor of modern folk songs (FOLK). After the Pete Seeger, the Weavers continued to promote such music, the 1960s, the anti-war singer, such as Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, etc. became the era. The owner's songs developed to POP, ROCK and urbanization, Bob Dylan invented FolkRock, Simon & Garfunkel to develop the urban FOLK POP of the middle taste, and the wind is in a time. In the 1980s, Suzanne Vega, TRACYCHAPMAN walked out of the Urban Folk (City) / Contemporary (contemporary) FOLK route that is more now in the city. Folk (FOLK) has also developed different faces in music in the UK, Hong Kong. Folk's New Year's New Development is combined with New Age (such as Enya), combined with TRIP HOP) such as Beth Orton.
(2, 8) What is BOSSA NOVA?
Bossa Nova is a Brazilian music with Jazz tastes. In 1950, Antonio Carlos Jobim made Brazilian music rhythm with Cool Jazz, USA, soft, comfortable, relaxed, lazy, romantic. The first, 4th, 7, 11, 14 of each Bar is taken as a back. Singer Joao Gilberto's pure singing is the excellent part of Jobim music. After the mid-1950s, the famous Bossa Nova musicians have Charlie Byrd, Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto, etc., the most famous song " The Girlfrom iPanema. OsSA NOVA is the most popular in the 1960s, and its agenda has also been held.
(2, 9) What is Classical Pop?
Classical POP is a popular song that is classical. The songs of multi-use strings can be included in such, such as the beatles' "Eleanorrigby". Some of the works of the Australian Crowded House can also be included in this class. If Classic POP is said, it refers to a classic epidemic.
(2, 10) What is acappella?
Acappella refers to a song without a musical accompaniment, but the song that is purely singing is acappella, but today we say that acappella usually refers to the kind of singing with multiple and singing, and the musical instrument accompaniment is singing. The opposite of Acappella is Instrumental, that is, a pure music music, any type of songs can be singing in the form of acappella. The most familiar acappella songs in Hong Kong are "so much in love", Hong Kong Acappella band has Ji Sheng Yashi.
(3, 1) What is World Music?
World music is a Western perspective of vocabulary, meaning that non-English, US and Western folk songs / popular music, usually refer to traditional music in developing regions or backward regions, such as music in Africa and South Asia, some areas such as Latin America Music, you can popularize self-contained types. Today, everyone says World Music usually refers to the traditional area music that is mixed with Western music. Africa's King Sunny Ade, Eastern Europe's Don Byron, China's Zhu Zheqin, Pakistan's Nusrat Fatehali Kahn is a familiar World Music.
(3, 2) What is DREAM-POP?
Dream-Pop is a "dream" popular song, which has a blur of atmosphere, which is caused by the Synthesizers (electronic synthesizer), and the echo effect is also an important component. Singing part often "BREATHY" That is, the sound of breathing, the lyrics are often a dream-like poetic color. The representative band has Cocteau Wins, Lisa Germano, St. Etienne, this Mortal Coil, My Bloody Valentine, Mazzy Star and DEAD CAN DANCE. The Chinese singer is headed by Faye Wong, and the representative is "lost", "di-da", etc.
(3, 3) What is new age?
New age is a kind of peace, comfort, and idling music, and pure music works have more proportion, and there are few songs. New age can be purely ACOUSTIC (ie, the traditional self-voiced instrument "can also be very electronic, the focus is to create a natural calm atmosphere or the vast feel of the universe, the heart of the wash listener, is peaceful. New Age is related to music treatment, many new age music can treat diseases, there are also many ways to meditate, which has a great relationship with New Age's philosophy. New Age music is often used as a middle class music. Windham Hill is the most representative New Age record company, New Age represents Enya, George Winston, William Ackerman, Yanni, Kitaro, and more. (3, 4) What is Electrophonic Music?
What is Electrophonic MUSIC (Electronic Music)? With the evolution of the times, musicians have more ways to make music. The so-called electronic music is to make music in electronic sounds generated by electronic synthesizer, music software, computers. The range of electronic music is wide, and life is often heard, in movie and music, advertising, and even some Mandarin pop songs, but the e-dance is the most. Many people think that the electronic music is a kind of cold ice, there is no emotional music. In fact, electronic music can also be mixed into Rock, Jazz or even Blues and other elements and other elements.
Types of electronic music are also a variety of diverse, including House, Techno, Ambient, Trance, PsychedLic Trance, Breakbeat, Brit-Hop, Big-Beat, Trip-Hop, Drum'n'bass, Jungle, Electro, Dub, Chill Out MINIMALISM.
(3, 5) What is Techno?
Technology, that is, "High Tech Dance"! With computers, synthesizer synthesis, make some special sound, this music is often combined in many sound effects. Techno's beat is also 4/4 shots, but the speed is fast, and it sounds repetitive, tough, more mechanized, so some people say Techno is "industrial noise", but some will pay attention to melody. Techno originated from the Detroit, USA, three DJ: Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson Juan Atkins tried to combine electronic music with black music, resulting in DETROIT TECHNO. DETROIT Techno is usually more gentle, unlike the general Techno, it can be said to be the origin of modern Techno.
(3, 6) What is ambient?
It sounds no big life, but in fact, it is always doing change, like a long time, or gradually enters music arranging, often creates a hierarchical sense of space, so it is called "situation music", and often Sampling for the sound of life, such as vocal, car sound, even the melody of other music ... and more. It is a very "high deep" electronic music for the 1970s. Later, Ambient also had branches, such as Ambient House, Ambient Techno ..., and more. I believe that everyone can understand from the literal, in fact, there will be Ambient's shadows in many music, even in some classics, there is also Ambient's taste. (3, 7) What is TRANCE?
The psychedelic dance, from Techno evolved, listening to the feeling of "going out God", but still keeping the rhythm of the dance, paying attention to the performance of BASS, some listening will have "hypnosis". The beat is also a 4/4 shot. But I also have to listen to Breakbeat (here you will introduce), such as Sven Vath's album Fusion.
(3, 8) What is psychedelic trance?
Also known as GoA Trance, originated on a small island in India. Goa is the name of this island. The melody often has a Indian flavor. The characteristics of such TRANCE are very important to the melody, the micro variation between the notes, and often have overlapping melody, and the high-tech TB-303 sound appears. A little Ambient's taste.
(3, 9) What is Break Beat?
Unlike the beat Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom like House, it is presented with broken beats, like a cut. If you add a small drum in two shots, the Breakbeat is just a general name, there are many music that are Breakbeat, such as Brit-Hop, Big-Beat, and black Hip-Hop is one.
(4, 1) What is BIG-BEAT?
"Big beat", make Brit-hop faster, rhythm, more rock taste, can be said to have a Brit-Hop improvement, more mature, you can imagine and break What is a little fast? Such as The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, FAT Boy Slim is the "big corner" of the BIG BEAT.
(4, 2) What is Drum n 'bass?
For some people, Drum n 'Bass may be annoying, because Drum N' Bass is very important to play the pattern on the rhythm, as well as BASS performance, like very fast, complex shock, and use A variety of different electronic drums or drums that are sampled. Therefore, Drum N 'Bass is also one of Breakbeat. 4Hero is a well-known orchestra for Drum N 'Bass.
(4, 3) What is Jungle?
Jungle is the predecessor of Drum N 'BASS. Jungle is much faster than Drum n 'Bass, and the beat is more complicated, and it is more powerful. Sometimes it will match some RAP, unlike Drum N' Bass, it will blend some elements such as Jazz, Soul, which sound is more soft (of course this is Jungle compared to it). Even the "rock chameleon" David Bowie nowgan Jungle.
(4, 4) What is electro? As early as the end of the 1970s, there was no House, Techno ... this kind of work, and electronic music is also not prevailing, only the electronic music of Electro. Electro can be said to be purely electronic synthesizer (Synthesizer, a bit like Keyboard), usually gentle, and often use Roland's Drum Machine TR-808 to drum. Germany's Kraftwerk Orchestra can be considered. The current ELECTRO tone is much smuggling than before, transparent. Later, some DJs used Electrto to become a Hip-Hop music, known as Old School. The current FATBOY SLIM (streaming fat boy) also combines some electro and old school in music.
(4, 5) What is DUB?
Dub can be said to be the REGGAE (Rig, also known as the Rye Ghost, a very beaten, singular, singular, singular, singular, singapore. The DUB is applied to the electronic music, and the partial song is extracted, and the Bass and drums are aggravated, and a large number of ECHO (echo) is added. This technique is often presenting songs (REMIX) when performing on site. The MASSIVE ATTACK's album Protection is mixed from the Trip-Hop music from Trip-Hop music into a Dub version.
(4, 6) What is Chill Out?
This is just a collective. Next to the dance floor, there will be a region, or a small room, it will put some slower, more calm music, let the dance dance after the dance, rest, to put the Ambient music, so it will be called "Chill OUT "(cooling) is this reason. The ORB can be said to be Chill Out Master.
(4, 7) What is minimalism?
This is translated into "extremely little music", often listened to the music of Ambient and Techno. Sques with Minimalism have repetitive melody, as well as a special rhythm, feel like a special frequency, let you have a hypnotic feel like a particular frequency. Jeff Mills' works belong to Minimal Dtroit-Techno with considerable psycho.
