Genres
- chamber music
- serious music performed by a small group of musicians
- paean
- (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity)
- newsreel
- a short film and commentary about current events
- comedy
- light and humorous drama with a happy ending
- cantus firmus
- a pre-existing melody used as the basis for a polyphonic composition; originally drawn from plainchant, but later drawn from other sources
- symphony
- a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra
- home movie
- a film made at home by an amateur photographer
- recessional
- a hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw
- collage film
- a movie that juxtaposes different kinds of footage
- think piece
- an article in a newspaper or magazine or journal that represents opinions and ideas and discussion rather than bare facts
- slow motion
- a movie that apparently takes place at a slower than normal speed; achieved by taking the film at a faster rate
- personal
- a short newspaper article about a particular person or group
- Hallel
- (Judaism) a chant of praise (Psalms 113 through 118) used at Passover and Shabuoth and Sukkoth and Hanukkah and Rosh Hodesh
- rough cut
- the first print of a movie after preliminary editing
- hymeneal
- a wedding hymn
- ethnic music
- the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
- jazz
- a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
- funk
- an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
- film noir
- a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters
- doxology
- a hymn or verse in Christian liturgy glorifying God
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