Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented towards a youth market Since the mid-1950's

s pop music has usually been identified The root of pop music is rock and roll The late 1960s was a period of a new youth-oriented by the influential studio experiments of The Beatles

The basic form for pop music is the song and usually a song consisting of verse and repeated chorus The typical instruments quite similar with rock music; vocals, guitar, drums, bass, keyboards The definition of pop music is purposefully flexible as the music is constantly changing

Mainstream Pop Alternative Pop Boy Bands British Pop Girl groups Punk Pop Singer-Songwriter Pop Pop Rock

Country music (or country and Western) is a blend of traditional and popular musical forms traditionally found in the Southern United States and the Canadian Maritimes that evolved rapidly beginning in the 1920s The roots of country music are in folk music, Celtic music, church music and gospels, aboriginal numbers and tribal music Characterized by twang guitars, fiddles, banjos and simple melodies.

The lyrics of country songs commonly parallel the lives of ordinary, workingclass Americans and cover such subjects as love and relationships, loneliness, religion, poverty, and work. Country harmony relies for the most part on a simple selection of repeated chords

Early Country Bluegrass Traditional Country Cowboy & Western Western Swing Honky Tonk Rockabilly Nashville Sound Country Rock Bakersfield Sound Outlaw New Traditionalist Contemporary Country Texas Country Alternative Country

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics, singing, or any other sort of vocal input; all of the music is produced by musical instruments By the second half of the 1500s instrumental music began to take shape. The strength and intensity involved in instrumental music is heart melting

Instrumental Music can be categorized into three significant streams, vocal music, western instrumental music, and oriental classical music Instrumental music usually played by rhythmic instruments, or orchestra In popular music, instrumental tracks are sometimes release vocals, but may also conceived without vocals.

symphony concerto chamber music sonata Popular Instrumental Instrumental electronic music Instrumental Hip-Hop Instrumental Rock Instrumental Wedding Ceremony Music

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