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A'Cappella
Choral singing performed without the use of instruments.
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Acoustic
Music that uses acoustic instruments, such as the acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, piano, cello, and voice.
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Alternative
A subgenre of rock that has been influenced by folk music, reggae, electronic music and jazz among other genres.
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Ambient
A loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles and is chiefly identifiable as having an overarching atmospheric context.
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BreakBeat
A genre consisting of rhythms that make intensive use of syncopation and polyrhythm, which are prominent in all music of African origin.
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Christian
Music created by or adapted for the Christian church to give glory to Jesus Christ.
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Christian Rock
Rock music created by or adapted for the Christian church to give glory to Jesus Christ.
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Christian Rap
Rap music created by or adapted for the Christian church to give glory to Jesus Christ.
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Classic Rock
A genre hard to define, but most popularly known as a radio format that featured rock music primarily from the 1970s.
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Classical - Orchestra
Music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, Western art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day.

Classical - Instrument Player
Music played by a solo musician using a classical instrument.
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Club
A style of mainstream hip-hop, techno, or house music with a heavy bass beat usually played in night clubs.
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Cover Band
A band that plays previously recorded songs made by another band.
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Country
A popular musical form developed in the southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, spirituals, and the blues.
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Death Metal
Heavy metal characterized by an aggressive and abrasive sound, coupled with a dark atmosphere that rejects normalized sentiments.
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DJ
An individual who selects and plays or remixes pre-recorded music on turntables, CD Players, or any other form of electronic equipment for the enjoyment of others.
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Electronica
Any of various forms of dance music featuring electronic instruments and synthesizers.
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Emo
Music genre characterized by its trendy, mellow, emotive, and sometimes more intellectual and complicated sound.
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Experimental
Any music that challenges the commonly accepted notions of what music is. Some experimental music is an extension of traditional music, adding unconventional instruments, modifications to instruments, noises, and other novelties.
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Folk
Music originating among the common people of a nation or region and spread by word of mouth, often with considerable variation.
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Folk Rock
A variety of popular music combining elements of rock 'n' roll and folk music.
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Funk
An earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar.
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Garage
Garage is any of several different varieties of modern electronic dance music generally connected to house or disco.
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Glam
A genre that is characterized by narcotic ballads, and raunchy, high-energy influenced rock n'roll styling.
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Gospel
A kind of Christian music based on American folk music, marked by strong rhythms and elaborated refrains, and incorporating elements of spirituals, blues, and jazz.
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Gothic
An alternate form of rock where guitars often serve as an ambient rather than melodic instrument, drumming tends to be dance oriented and the vocals are often somewhat haunting or distant.
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Grindcore
Ultra-punk music that took the open riffs of hardcore bands and sped them up with metal influences in rhythm and vocals, creating a roaring flood of negative and fractured emotion.
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Grunge
Grunge music is generally characterized by distorted guitar, strong riffs, and heavy drumming. Grunge involves slower tempos and dissonant harmonies that are generally not found in punk.
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Hardcore
Music that involves shouted vocals with a fast, aggressive tempo and a guitar sound featuring quick chord changes.
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Hardcore - Happy
Grafts the high speeds of Garage on to bubblegum pop records; it's very fast, very bouncy and extremely high-energy.

Hip-Hop
A genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical instrumentals; where several forms of rap have emerged.
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Hip-Pop
A fusion between modern hip-hop, rap and pop music.
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House
Emerging from clubs in Chicago and New York in the mid 1980s, it can be recognized by the 130 electric bpm, big bass lines and hard drum loops.
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House - Disco
A style of disco music with a heavy bass beat and hard drum loops.
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House - Hard
A subgenre of house music that is played with a harder, louder, faster style of dance music.

House - Progressive
A subgenre of house music that has an open mind to incorporate new elements to the genre.
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Indie
Includes a number of genres that are perceived to be independent from commercial pop music and mainstream culture.
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Industrial
Loose term for a number of different styles of electronic and experimental music; also characterized as sounding machine-like.

Jam Band
Describes bands whose concerts feature extended musical improvisation over rhythmic grooves and chord patterns.
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Jazz
A style of music, native to America, characterized by strong but flexible rhythmic understructure with solo and ensemble improvisations on basic tunes and chord patterns and, more recently a highly sophisticated harmonic idiom.
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Jazz - New (Nu)
NuJazz refers to music styles that blend jazz textures and sometimes jazz instrumentation, funk, electronic dance music, and free improvisation.
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Jungle
A form of Drum 'n' Bass and Reggae, that uses Ragga vocals and multiple Raggae and old school Drum 'n' Bass elements.

Latin
Latin music is very diverse in which it contains many genres, with the only truly unifying thread being the use of the Spanish language, or the Portuguese language, in Brazil.
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Lounge
Generally, performed by a singer and one or two other musicians. The performers play or cover songs composed by others, especially pop standards.
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Mariachi
Music originally from Mexico usually consisting of at least two violins, two trumpets, one Spanish guitar, one vihuela (a high-pitched, five-string guitar) and one guitarr� (a small-scaled acoustic bass), but sometimes featuring more than twenty musicians.

Metal
A mix between blues and rock music to create a hybrid of thick, heavy, guitar and drums centered sound, characterized by the use of highly-amplified distortion.
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Drum and Bass
This genre is characterized by fast tempo broken beat drum with heavy, often intricate basslines.
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New Age
A style of modern music characterized by a relaxing or dreamy texture derived from quiet harmonies and drones, often incorporating synthesizers and acoustic and ethnic instrumentation.
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New Wave
New Wave is most commonly associated with a movement in Western popular music. It is marketed as a more commercial or chart-friendly version of punk.
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Pop
Pop music indicates specific stylistic traits such as an emotional singing style, lyrics about love or sex, danceable beat, clear melodies, simple harmonies and repetitive structure so that people can catch on and join in.
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Pop - Punk
This is a fusion genre that combines elements of punk rock with pop music to varying degrees.
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Pop - Rock
Pop rock songs are identified by their simple song structure, catchy melodies, and repetition of musical passages, and by their use of electric guitar and drums -based instrumentation and a somewhat aggressive attitude.
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Powerpop
This music is characterized by strong melodies, crisp vocal harmonies, economical arrangements and prominent guitar riffs. Instrumental solos are kept to a minimum, and blues elements are largely downplayed.
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Progressive
Progressive music is the name given to a certain approach to musical composition that has been applied to several different music genres. It has subgenres that have evolved from their root genre by innovating, either through incorporating instruments from other genres or using new techniques within the framework provided by the instrumentation of the root genre to make a new or crossover style.
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Psychedelic
It is a style of rock music, often referred to as Acid Rock, inspired by or attempting to replicate the mind-altering experiences brought on by drugs.
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Punk
Punk bands, avioding the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock, created short, fast, hard music, with stripped-down instrumentation and often political or rebellious lyrics.
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R&B
This identifies the style of music that combined the 12 bar blues format and boogie-woogie with a back beat, which later became a fundamental element of rock and roll. It also has a slick, electronic record production style, drum machine-backed rhythms, and a smooth, lush style of vocal arrangement.
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Rap
Generally consists of a chanted, often improvised, street poetry encompanied by a montage of instrumentals.
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Reggae
Reggae is sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, including ska, rocksteady and dub.
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Rock
This is a form of popular music with a prominent vocal melody accompanied by guitar, drums, and often bass.
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Rock - Hard
A variation of rock and roll music which has its earliest roots in early-1960s garage and psychedelic rock and is typified by a heavy use of distorted electric guitars, bass guitar and drums.
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Rock - Soft/Light
A style of music which uses the techniques of rock and roll to compose a softer, supposedly more ear-pleasing sound for listening, and focusing in very general language on themes like love, everyday life and relationships.
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Screamo
A musical genre which evolved from emo, post-hardcore, more specifically hardcore emo in the early 1990s characterized by screaming vocals, harmonized guitars, and fast-paced riffs.
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Ska
Jamaica-originated music that combines elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. It's characterized by a walking bassline, a scratchlike tempo, accented guitar or piano rhythms on the offbeat; and in some cases, jazz-like horn riffs.
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Soul
A music genre that combines rhythm and blues with gospel music and originated in the late 1950s in the United States.
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Southern Rock
A subgenre of rock music that developed in the South of the United States from Rock and Roll and Blues, with a slight influence from Country and folk, and is focused generally on electric guitar and vocals.
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Surf
The instrumental is generally dance music of medium to fast tempo, with electric guitars dominating the sound.. This genre is associated with the surf culture that has three main subgenres: Instrumental, Surf pop, and Surf rock.
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Techno
Features an abundance of percussive, synthetic sounds, studio effects used as principal instrumentation, and, usually, a regular, 4/4 beat usually in the 130/hyphy 140 bpm range. Some Techno compositions have strong melodies and baselines.
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Thrash
A subgenre of heavy metal music, one of the extreme metal subgenres, that is characterized by its high speed and aggression.
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Trance
A style of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130-160 bpm, featuring repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track, often crescendoing or featuring a breakdown.
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Trip Hop
Trip Hop is downtempo electronic music that grew out of England's hip hop and house scenes, often characterised by a reliance on breakbeats and sample-heavy, often moody sound.
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World
Music from cultures other than those of Western Europe and English-speaking North America, especially popular music from Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
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