Music Genres

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Across
  1. 4. Coined in the early 1980s, the term “alternative rock” or “alternative music” was used to describe music that didn’t fit into mainstream genres of the time.
  2. 7. A vocal and instrumental form of music based on a pentatonic scale and a characteristic twelve-bar chord progression.
  3. 8. Music is a sub-genre of popular music.
  4. 10. Created without the use of electricity. As a genre it refers to folk, traditional, or singer-songwriter modes of music.
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  1. 1. Generally a classification covering music composed and performed by professionally trained artists.
  2. 2. Called the first original art form to develop within the US. It grew out of a cross-fertilization of folk blues, ragtime, and European band music.
  3. 3. Music composed of four main elements: rapping, disk jockeying, break-dancing and graffiti.
  4. 5. Rhythm and Blues was coined as a musical marketing term used to designate upbeat popular music that combined jazz and blues.
  5. 6. Once known as Country & Western music, this music form is developed mostly in the southern United States of America.
  6. 9. Also called rock ‘n’ roll.