Research and Planning: Electric Music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology.^[1] Examples of electromechanical sound producing devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, and the electric guitar. Purely electronic sound production can be achieved using devices such as the Theremin, sound synthesizer, and computer.^[2]
Electronic music was once associated almost exclusively with Western art music but from the late 1960s on the availability of affordable music technology meant that music produced using electronic means became increasingly common in the popular domain.^[3] Today electronic music includes many varieties and ranges from experimental art music to popular forms such as electronic dance music.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_music

Research and Planning: Country Music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s.^[1] It takes its roots from Western cowboy and southeastern American folk music. Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instruments such as banjoes, electric and acoustic guitars, fiddles, and harmonicas.^[2][3][4]
The term country music gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to the earlier term hillbilly music. The term country music is used today to describe many styles and subgenres. In 2009 Country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, and second most popular in the morning commute.


^{source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music}

Myley Cyrus Butterfly Fly Away

Research and Planning: Classical Music

Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11^th century to present times. The central norms of this tradition became codified between 1550 and 1900, which is known as the common practice period. It should not be confused with the Classical Era.

European 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.^[2] 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 and popular music.

The term "classical music" did not appear until the early 19th century, in an attempt to "canonize" the period from Johann Sebastian Bach to Beethoven as a golden age. The earliest reference to "classical music" recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary is from about 1836

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music

Debussy Claire De Lune

Mozart Requiem

Research and Planning: Children's Music

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Research and Planning: Blues

Blues Music Genre

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African American communities of primarily the “Deep South” of the United States around the end of the 19^th century from the spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues form ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll is characterized by specific chord progressions, of which the twelve bar blues chord progression is the most common. The blues notes that, for expressive purposes are sung or played flattened or gradually bent (minor 3^rd to major 3^rd) in relation to the pitch of the major scale, are also an important part of sound.  

The blues genre is based on the blues form but possesses other characteristics such as specific lyrics, bass lines and instruments. Blues can be subdivided into several subgenres ranging from country to urban blues that were more or less popular during different periods of the 20ths century. Best known are the Delta, Piedmont, Jump and Chicago blues styles. World War 2 marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and the progressive opening of blues music to a wider audience, especially white listeners. In the 1960s and 1970s, a hybrid called blues rock evolved.

The term “the blues” refers to the “blue devils” meaning melancholy and sadness; an early use of the term in this sense is found in George Colman’s one-act farce Blue Devils (1798). Though the use of the phrase in African-American music may be older, it has been attested to since 1912, when Hart Wand’s “Dallas Blues” Became the first copyrighted blues composition. IN lyrics the phrase is often used to describe a depressed mood.

sourced from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues

Dallas Blues

Bob Dylan Like a Rolling Stone

Research and Planning: Alternative Music Genre

Alternative music Genre

"From what I know, alt. music was the name that music critics and magazines called 80s rock that wasn´t ¨new wave¨ at that time. Unfortunately the alternative music became the primary focus of the media, therefore nullifying the meaning of such coined genre.

Musically, it appeals very subjective opinions. I guess it depends on what you consider alt. rock and all its sub genres (including brit pop, grunge, indie, etc) but I find the alternative sound to be a kindle of overlooked subjects in lyrical points of view; therefore forgetting love is the best focus of songwriting to create hits and tackle more controversial, possibly new, subjects.
I find the guitars have a more strumming purpose and a less meticulous role than what it had during the 60s and 70s, nonetheless potentially brilliant.
Forget about jam bands anymore or elaborate improvisational skills, here the main goal is to reach thousands of people, more probable a whole generation, and play what they want to hear but never had the chance before.
It is supposed to repel any potential commercial weariness that rust the songs (a job that clearly songs like Smells Like Teen Spirit fail to do) as it´s not its objective, thus concentration in something bigger than success; maybe achieving satisfaction by merely the action of an ¨outcast¨ to communicate with another ¨outcast¨ about subjects of interest, not tackled in commercial airplay.

Alt. rock, as its name suggests, is another perspective to music´s often overlooked point of view and enjoy something different for a change... thus rendering the term oblivious to alt. rock music that was considered, say, 20 years ago."

(answer sourced from http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110214200210AAEd1ld)

Examples include Thirty Seconds To Mars- The Kill (bury me)

Fall Out Boy Dance Dance

Research and Planning: Part One Media Music Video Dictionary

RandB-Rhythm and Blues

Pop-Popular Music (the beatles may seem outdated now but they one were popular music)

HMV-His Masters Voice (thus why there is a dog sitting  next to a grammaphone listening to his masters voice)

DandB-Drum and Bass