N5/Higher
 Electronica/Dance
music
 Rap
 Hip
Hop
 Celtic Rock
 Musical
 Indie(Higher)
 Jazz Funk (Higher)
 New Wave (Higher)
 Musique Concrete (Higher)
 Electronica
is a music genre encompassing a
wide range of contemporary electronic
music designed for a wide range of uses,
including foreground listening, some forms of
dancing, and background music for other
activities.
 The style makes use of synthesisers, samples
and loops.
 Rap
is spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics in
time with a beat.
 Rapping can be traced back to its African
roots. Centuries before hip hop
music existed, the griots of West Africa were
delivering stories rhythmically,
over drums and sparse instrumentation. Such
connections have been acknowledged by
many modern artists, modern day
"griots", spoken word artists, mainstream
news sources, and academics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylkOAtifuJ0
 Hip-Hop
emerged in New York in the
1970’s. DJ’s played percussion loops
(drum samples of sound that were looped
round again and again) to create a strong
rhythmic beat.
 In Hip Hop everything is built up in layers.
There are midi drum patterns
(computerised patterns) a bass line,
supporting orchestration (synthesizer,
strings, piano, etc).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn5RMwUyE3A&feature=related
 Celtic
rock is a genre of folk rock and a form
of Celtic fusion which incorporates Celtic
music, instrumentation and themes into a
rock music context.
 Well known bands include Runrig, Red Hot
Chilli Pipers, Treacherous Orchestra…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q75kT02Qb1o

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical
performance that combines songs, spoken
dialogue, acting, and dance. The story and
emotional content of a musical – humour, pathos,
love, anger – are communicated through the
words, music, movement and technical aspects
of the entertainment as an integrated whole


Independent music (often shortened to indie
music or indie) is music produced independently
from major commercial record labels or their
subsidiaries, a process that may include an
autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to
recording and publishing. The term indie is
sometimes also used to describe a genre (such as
indie rock, indie metal or indie pop); as a genre
term, "indie" may include music that is not
independently produced, and most independent
music artists do not fall into a single, defined
musical style or genre and usually create music
that can be categorized into other genres.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_426RiwST8
a
subgenre of jazz music characterized by a
strong back beat (groove), electrified
sounds and an early prevalence of analog
synthesizers. The integration of funk, soul,
and R&B music and styles into jazz resulted
in the creation of a genre whose spectrum is
quite wide and ranges from strong jazz
improvisation to soul, funk or disco with jazz
arrangements, jazz riffs, and jazz solos, and
sometimes soul vocals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UDYwWqBnd8
 Bands
from the late 70s and early 80s who
followed on from the punk genre were
described as ‘new wave’. The style
diversified from being driven by heavy
guitars to incorporating synths and became
an inclusive term for a number of sub genres.
Bands like Blondie and Talking Heads could
be described as new wave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXewIR7Y7cc
A
musical form made from recordings
of musical instruments, voice, and the
natural environment as well as those created
using synthesizers and computerbased digital signal processing. Also,
compositions in this idiom are not restricted
to the normal musical rules
of melody, harmony, rhythm, metre, and so
on.
Pierre
Schaeff
er -
 Listen
to the excerpts and name the style.
What attributes made you choose this style?
Style
Attributes
 Mp3
Players
 Audio interface
 Virtual instruments
 Performance Software
 An
MP3 player is a portable audio device
people can use to listen to songs saved in
the MP3 format. They can use USBcords to
connect the device to computers, so
that computer files can be transferred to
players internal memory.
 MP3s are audio files that have been made
smaller by removing sounds that the human
ear cannot hear.
A
software instrument can be a synthesized
version of a real instrument (like the sounds
of a violin or drums), or a unique instrument,
generated by computer software.
 Software instruments have been made
popular by the convergence of synthesizers
and computers, as well as sequencing
software like GarageBand, Logic Pro.