Styles of Music.

Pop music
It’s the music that conserves the structure “verse-refrain-verse”. The voices are in the flat of the song and they are accompanied by repeated and lineal pursuits. Pop music started in 1960.
There are different types of pop music:
1.- Electronic Pop: It has been generated with electronic instruments and digital sounds (Miranda & Belanova)
2.- Traditional Pop: It has been generated with the traditional music structure: voice, guitar, bass and drums (Oreja de Van Gogh & Amaral)
3. Latin Pop: It’s the pop music from Latin-American, Portugal and Spain. (Shakira, Alejandro Sanz, Juanes, RBD & Ricky Martin)


Rap
Rap music is the principal vocal musical element of the culture of hip-hop. It’s consists of reciting rhymes following a rhythm or a musical base. The singer is called like MC and the DJ puts the music (Audio & a mix of scratching). At first the MC was the person that presented and accompanied the DJ, that was, really the star of the spectacle. But now, we would be able to say that almost always the DJ is the person that accompanies the MC, and many times the MC doesn’t appear.
Rap means to severely criticize. Also it has been suggested that it could be an acronym of the phrase “rhythm and poetry”, “Recite a Poem”, “Afro-American protestant revolution”. Although other many theories affirm that rap comes from the word “Rap soda”, (person who recite verses in the streets in the Old Greece), the rap music appeared like a variation of the Jamaican tasting: Songs, shouts, greetings, laughters, dance exhortations and other comments that the DJ launched by the microphone in festivals and concerts of reggae and dub recorder instrumental bases.


Rock
1.Progressive Rock: It is a subspecies of the rock appeared in the ends of the decade from the 60 of the 20th Century. The most important in this type is the gradual step of a bucolic (of slow time) to another urban one (electric, tense, and fast, with influence of the blues and of the jazz). This type of rock is confused with the symphonic rock. Because although both kinds over lap frequently, the symphonic adjective alludes above all to the orchestral tone, orchestral, using primitive synthesizers. The progressive rock grants a great importance to the individual contribution of each musician, for which is used to having solos of guitar, keyboard, battery, etc, in detriment of the unit sense of the piece.

2.Soft rock: The soft rock is the smooth form of the traditional rock in the search of sounds (guitars to low volume, relaxed batteries…) is in the height of the own voice, normally singing in the high attitudes, falsettos, etc… The letters use to speak of themes without confrontation, presented in habitual languages, with special incident in the loving questions, the everyday life and the relations of friends. Instrumentally, it is characterized for the addition, to the standard base of the rock, of piano, synthesizers and sequencers, and, frequently, saxophone and other wind instruments, in all the treated cases as arrangements of fund, never with the presents that can have in kinds like the jazz-rock one or the soul. The soft rock develops, practically and in parallel way, on the totality of the kinds inside the rock, although, curiously, their main sources are styles and in difficult and complex and principle, as the jazz-rock one or the heavy metal.


3.Alternative Rock: It is another kind of rock music that was born in the 80’s Although the domination refers to rock, this kind receives the influence of other styles as the pop music, folk, electronic music or jazz among others and from time to time the term has used itself wrong like an expression to name to rock in general. The known music at present as alternative rock was called also in the United States with the expression “ College rock” and in the United Kingdom was “Indie”. Then the toward the year 1990 the term was established “alternative rock, although the expression began to be utilized in the middle of the 80’s. The alternative Rock has defined itself since its start by its refusal to mercantilism of the culture established. The alternative groups of the 80’s reformed in small clubs, they recorded in independent record companies and were acquaintances by their followers through by mouth to mouth. The alternative rock isn’t a musical style, if not a very extensive denomination that covers since the guitars distorted and the depressive letters, to the innocence of the twee pop, passing by on the pop one revivalist, the ethereal melodies of the dream pop of the experimentation of the post rock.


4.Gothic Rock: It’s refered to joint of musical styles that have in common the flavour by the dark and dramatic things. Many styles exist that are used to being called differently gothic rock. Then we can say that there is an extensive conception and a concrete one of the term. In an extensive sense, cover all the musical currents that evolved since the After-Punk one of ends of decade of the 70, included great sounds type variety, since the punk rocker to the electronics going through over the background music and the dark wave. In a strict sense, Gothic rock prefers only to the most nearby sounds to rock remaining out the definition the music of pop, industrial, and electronic cut.

5.Hard Rock: It’s a sub product of the rock and roll and of the blues related in principle with the heavy metal and that one complements to another. The majority proposes that has its more nearby roots in the rock blues of the years 60. All Rock belongs to Rock ‘n roll; is used to being in a major key, with an use of the minor keys. The letters often have sexual content and at times the are a battery can reach a rank of 100-150 blows per minute, being 120 habitual like the letter and the melody of the voice. The rock, garage, blues, the country are the roots of the hard rock.

6.Rock pop music: The rock pop music is a musical kind that combines elements of the rock with smooth melodies. The songs are identified by being of simple structure, cautivating melody and repetition of the chorus or refrain and by using as instrumental base, the electric guitar and the keyboard. Rock pop music is the translation shortened of the English ‘’Popular Rock’’. Often the rock pop label us utilized also to point the modern rock music it although the word soft is more feasible.


7.Classical Rock: The Classical Rock is a classification of rock bands. They are called classical rock bands to the rock bands left in the decades of 1960 and 1970. Themselves him it can’t be called a style in itself, since all the bands of classical Rock possessed own styles that identified them. Thus we can group inside the classical rock to bands of kinds as the Rock one and Roll. Essence, the classical rock is utilized to group to the groups of golden epoch of the rock (1960-1975), in its style.


Metal
1.Heavy Metal:
The heavy metal is a kind evolved from the Rock, is characterized by powerful rhythms achieved by means of the utilization of guitars distorted, batteries with double pedal, and low pronounced. The term heavy metal due it the progression that has suffered this kind since its creation, is used at present to refer to two different concepts: heavy metal as kind in general and heavy metal as a traditional style inside said kind. The instruments but important of this musical style they are: battery, at times of double bass drum, low, a rhythmic guitar, a guitar soloist (of the English, lead guitar) and a singer, also a keyboard is included eventually. Power Metal is a style that possesses velocity, melodies and is used to including singers that reach very sharp tones and keyboards, often they accompany the melodies classical elements as violins… its subject matter is used to themes of fantastic cut, such like the mythology or the wars of the antiquity. Began to be developed at the end of the eighty in Europe, chiefly in Germany.


2.Power Metal: The speed is essentially traditional aggressive and fast metal. This quick style was seen surpassed by two new styles that helped to generate, the power metal, and the thrash metal. It wasn’t until influence of the hardcore was incorporated punk that the speed metal came be know like power metal.


3.Death Metal: The main characteristic of the Death Metal that differentiates it of Thrash Metal is the heart wrenching and guttural voice that does unintelligible its letters the majority of the times. These often they mention themes as the death and the evil things. In few words is the same one harmony alone that more aggressive and employee with a little more than rapidity and as for the letter normally they speak of death and destruction accompanied by the guttural voice ( is called thus because the sound of this voice is created since the larynx and pharynx. The name of the style, the song stems from Death Metal of the disk Seven Churches of Possessed.


4.Gothic Metal: This kind mixes the classical music, the keyboards and violins, with the female voices, especially of sopranos; arises to ends of the 80 in Finland with the aid of 2 bands: Weepy that mixed elements of the classical music to a style of Gothic music, and when Paradise Los introduces female voices to their Doom Metal, then they would appear The Gathering, Theatre of Tragedy and Tristania that possessed a dense style; subsequently in the middle of the 90 the guttural voices would be suppressed having as to only voice that of the woman.


5.Industrial Metal: It’s a subspecies of the heavy metal that arises at the beginning of the years 90. The songs utilized with this formula are characterized for the electronic sounds that are complemented accompanying to the main instruments (battery, low, guitar and voice). Often the voice of the singer is used to being modified even effective sonorous of fund. Likewise a keyboardist can be found to accompany to the song, but also he is used to being reformed the piano. This kind of the metal doesn’t utilize normally the too complicated rhythms of battery and guitar, more well is accustomed to utilize slower rhythms, being approached to the hard rock, but quite dense, Nevertheless other forms exist that have known to bring up to date the kind.


6.Progressive metal: Is the style that is born of the union of the music Heavy Metal and the style of the progressive rock. It is characterized for the great technical capacity of the musicians and by the melodies that print to the songs. Also it’s usual that, just as was custom with the disk of progressive rock, the disks pf this style be conceptual and of long term songs divided into chapters or you split. This kind of metal, with its corresponding sonorous sides and to be influenced by the progressive rock generates fusions that continue more or except the original meaning of “progressive”, relating to the large of the progressive rock.