There are many different types of music. This menu is about the types of music I write about most often. Click on the links below to find out something about each one.
Classical Music
So what is this thing called ‘Classical Music’? What type of music is ‘classical’?
Well I looked in books, looked in dictionaries, and I looked on the internet. And I still can’t tell you what it is exactly. I know it when I hear it. But I can’t describe it exactly.
So let’s try a bad definition. Well, some people say that ‘classical music’ is ‘serious music’. This can be true. Classical music is often music to listen to carefully and think about. But I also know lots of very funny classical music. So not all classical music is serious.
Jazz
Jazz! What fun! Tap your feet. Clap. Relax. Chill out.
That’s jazz!
If you don’t believe me, watch this video of a song called ‘Now you has jazz’. Listen carefully to the words as well as the music.
Folk Music
What is folk music? Well, there’s folk music and there’s folk music. And both of them are music by folks for folks.
Got it? Not really, I guess. I’ll try again, then!
There are two types of folk music. The first is normally very old and nobody really knows who the composer is. It is music that belongs to a people or a culture. It is the music of the ordinary people within that culture. And it is the music these people have played, or sung, to one another for a very long time. If you know any nursery rhymes, you will know some of this type of folk music.