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Čoček

Čoček (; Serbian and , čoček; ; Romanian: sistemul; Greek: Tsifteteli) is a musical genre and dance that emerged in the Balkans during the early 19th century. It features prominently in the

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Cock rock

Cock rock is a music genre and description of rock music that emphasizes an aggressive form of male sexuality. The style developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and continues into the present

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Coimbra fado

Coimbra fado (Portuguese: Fado de Coimbra) is a genre of fado originating in the city of Coimbra, Portugal. While adopted by students at the University of Coimbra, and sometimes known as student fado

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Colá

Colá is a musical genre of Cape Verdean

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Coladeira

The coladeira ( ; , ) is a music genre from Cape Verde. It is characterized by a variable tempo, a 2-beat bar, and (in its most traditional form) a harmonic structure based in a cycle of fifths. The

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Cold wave (music)

Cold wave (also known as coldwave) is a music genre that emerged during the late 1970s and early 1980s, particularly in France, Poland and Belgium. The genre was originally pioneered by post-punk and

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Colindă

A colindă (pl. colinde; also colind, pl. colinduri) is a traditional Christmas carol in Romania and the Republic of

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College rock

College rock is rock music played on student-run university and college campus radio stations located in the United States and Canada in the 1980s and 1990s. The stations' playlists were often

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Collegiate a cappella

Collegiate a cappella (or college a cappella) ensembles are college-affiliated singing groups, primarily in the United States, and, increasingly, the United Kingdom and Ireland, that perform entirely

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Colombian rock

Colombian Rock is rock music from Colombia. The most common styles of Colombian rock are based on Rock en Español, indie rock, as well as the traditional focus of hard rock Colombian

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Colossal Baroque

The Colossal Baroque style is a name which has been coined to describe a number of musical compositions from the 17th and 18th centuries composed in an opulent, magnificent and large-scaled style.

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Comédie en vaudevilles

The comédie en vaudevilles () was a theatrical entertainment which began in Paris towards the end of the 17th century, in which comedy was enlivened through lyrics using the melody of popular

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Comédie mêlée d'ariettes

The French term (, 'comedy mixed with little songs') was frequently used during the late ancien régime for certain types of opéra comique (French opera with spoken dialogue). The term became popular

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Comédie-ballet

Comédie-ballet is a Baroque genre of French drama which mixes a spoken play with interludes containing music and

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Comedy hip-hop

Comedy hip-hop or comedy rap is a subgenre of hip-hop music designed to be amusing or comedic, compared to artists who incorporate humor into their more serious, purist hip-hop styles. Many examples

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Comedy music

Comedy music or musical comedy is a genre of music that is comedic in nature. Its history can be traced back to the first century in ancient Greece and Rome, moving forward in time to the Medieval

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Comedy rock

Comedy rock is a genre of rock music that is comedic in nature. It is often mixed with satire or

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Comic opera

Comic opera, sometimes known as light opera, is a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending and often including spoken dialogue . Forms of comic opera first developed

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Compas

Compas (; ; ), also known as konpa or kompa, is a modern méringue dance music genre of Haiti. The genre was created by Nemours Jean-Baptiste following the creation of Ensemble Aux Callebasses in

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Composer tributes (classical music)

Musical tributes or homages from one composer to another can take many forms. Following are examples of the major types of tributes occurring in classical music. A particular work may fit into more

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Concept musical

A concept musical is a work of musical theatre with a book and score structured to develop and embody a theme or message, rather than convey a narrative plot. The form was popularized by Man of La

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Concert aria

A concert aria is normally an aria or operatic scene (scena) composed for singer and orchestra, written specifically for performance in concert rather than as part of an opera. Concert arias have

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Concert march

A concert march is a march specifically composed for a formal concert or other audience event. While concert marches are usually written for a concert band, brass band or an orchestra, some concert

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Concert piece

A concert piece (; , also ) is a musical composition, in most cases in one movement, intended for performance in a concert. Usually it is written for one or more virtuoso instrumental soloists and

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Concertino (composition)

Concertino is the diminutive of concerto, thus literally a small or short

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Concerto

A concerto (; plural concertos, or concerti from the Italian plural) is, from the late Baroque era, mostly understood as an instrumental composition, written for one or more soloists accompanied by

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Concerto for solo piano

While a concerto is generally a piece for an instrument or instruments with orchestral accompaniment, some works for piano alone have been written with the seemingly contradictory designation

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Concerto grosso

The concerto grosso (; Italian for big concert(o), plural concerti grossi ) is a form of baroque music in which the musical material is passed between a small group of soloists (the concertino) and

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Conductus

The conductus (plural: conducti) was a sacred Latin song in the Middle Ages, one whose poetry and music were newly composed. It is non-liturgical since its Latin lyric borrows little from previous

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Conga (music)

The term conga refers to the music groups within Cuban comparsas and the music they play. Comparsas are large ensembles of musicians, singers and dancers with a specific costume and choreography

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Congolese rumba

Congolese rumba, also known as African rumba, is a dance music genre originating from the Republic of the Congo (formerly French Congo and the People's Republic of the Congo) and Democratic Republic

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Conjunto

The term conjunto (, literally 'group', 'ensemble') refers to several types of small musical ensembles present in different Latin American musical traditions, mainly in Mexico and Cuba. While Mexican

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Contemporary Catholic liturgical music

Contemporary Catholic liturgical music encompasses a comprehensive variety of styles of music for Catholic liturgy that grew both before and after the reforms of the Second Vatican Council (Vatican

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Contemporary Christian music

Contemporary Christian music (CCM), also known as Christian pop, and occasionally inspirational music, is a genre of modern popular music, and an aspect of Christian media, which is lyrically focused

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Contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music is Western art music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 post-tonal music after the death of

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Contemporary commercial music

Contemporary commercial music or CCM is a term used by some vocal pedagogists in the United States to refer to non-classical music. This term encompasses jazz, pop, blues, soul, country, folk, and

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Contemporary folk music

Contemporary folk music refers to a wide variety of genres that emerged in the mid-20th century and afterwards which were associated with traditional folk music. Starting in the mid-20th century, a

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Contemporary Jewish religious music

For the purposes of this article, “contemporary” refers to the period from 1967 (Israel's Six-Day War) to the present day, “Jewish” refers to the various streams and traits of Judaism practiced. Many

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Contemporary music

Contemporary music is whatever music is produced at the current time. Specifically, it could refer

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Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B is a popular music genre, originating from African-American musicians in the 1970s that combines rhythm and blues with elements of disco, funk, soul, jazz, blues, electronic, and

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Contemporary worship music

Contemporary worship music (CWM), also known as praise and worship music, is a distinct genre of Christian music used in contemporary worship. It has evolved over the past 60 years and is

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Contenance angloise

The Contenance angloise, or English manner, a distinctive style of musical polyphony, developed in fifteenth-century England. It uses full, rich harmonies based on the third and sixth. It became

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Contradanza

Contradanza (also called contradanza criolla, danza, danza criolla, or habanera) is the Spanish and Spanish-American version of the contradanse, which was an internationally popular style of music

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Contrafact

A contrafact is a musical work based on a prior work. The term comes from classical music and has only since the 1970s been applied to jazz, where it is still not standard. In classical music,

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Cool Cymru

Cool Cymru () was a Welsh cultural movement in the 1990s and 2000s. The movement saw a rise in the popularity of Welsh music, with bands such as Catatonia, Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics and

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Cool jazz

Cool jazz is a style and genre of modern jazz music inspired by bebop and big band that arose in the United States after World War II. It is characterized by relaxed tempos and a lighter tone than

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Coon song

Coon songs or blackface songs were a genre of music that presented a stereotype of black people. They were popular in the United States and Australia from around 1880 to 1920, though the earliest

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Copla (music)

The copla, copla andaluza ("Andalusian copla"), canción andaluza, canción española, tonadilla or canción folklórica is a form of Spanish popular song, deriving from the poetic form of the same name.

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Coptic music

Coptic music is the music sung and played in the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Coptic Catholic Church. It has some roots in ancient Egyptian music and many elements of ancient Egyptian music

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Cornkister

A cornkister is a Doric song, generally a comic song, written during the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries, in the tradition of the bothy ballads. The name refers to the (corn chest) used

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Coronation anthem

A coronation anthem is a piece of choral music to accompany the crowning of a monarch. Many composers have written such works. Being anthems, they are not hymns but textured motets requiring a

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Corrido

A corrido (Spanish pronunciation: koˈriðo ) is a narrative metrical tale and poetry that forms a ballad. The songs often feature topics such as oppression, history, daily life for criminals, the

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Corridos tumbados

Corridos tumbados (), also known as trap corridos, is a subgenre of regional Mexican music, specifically of a corrido, with musical elements of a narcocorrido and rap music. Its style originated in

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Cossack songs

Cossack songs are folk songs which were created by

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Count singing

Count singing is a choral rehearsal technique that involves singing the correct pitches, but replacing the lyrics with each note's position within a measure. In time, this would mean a sequence of

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Country and Irish

Country and Irish, also known as Culchie and Western, is a musical subgenre in Ireland formed by mixing North American country-style music with Irish influences. It is especially popular in the rural

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Country blues

Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is one of the earliest forms of blues music, but also refers to a blend of country music and blues. The mainly solo

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a music genre originating from the United States. It is known for its ballads and dance tunes, identifiable by both traditional

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Country music in Atlanta

Atlanta played a major role in launching country's earliest recording artists in the early 1920s — many Appalachian people such as Fiddlin' John Carson had come to the city and area to work in its

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Country music in Nigeria

Country music in Nigeria has enjoyed high levels of popularity since first being introduced to the country in the middle of the 20th century. Within Nigeria, country music is generally classified as

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Country pop

Country pop (also known as urban cowboy when referring to the early 1980s version of the genre) is a fusion genre of country music that was developed by members of the country genre out of a desire

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Country rap

Country rap (also called country hip-hop, country hick-hop, redneck rap and sometimes hick-hop) is a fusion genre that mixes country music elements with hip-hop beats and

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Country rock

Country rock is a music genre that fuses rock and country. It was developed by rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records and country musicians who implemented rock flavor into

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Coupé-décalé

Coupé-décalé () is a type of popular dance music originating in Côte d'Ivoire. Drawing heavily from zouglou and ndombolo with other African influences, coupé-décalé is a very percussive style,

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Couplets (cabaret)

Couplets (, , ) were wittily ambiguous, political, or satirical songs in a number of European countries, usually performed in cabaret settings, usually with refrains, often used as a transition

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Court music in Scotland

Court music in Scotland is all music associated with the Royal Court of Scotland, between its origins in the tenth century, until its effective dissolution in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

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Cowboy poetry

Cowboy poetry is a form of poetry that grew from a tradition of cowboys telling

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Cowboy pop

Cowboy pop is music genre coined in 1984 by music journalist J. D. Considine in his review of Scenic Views by Rubber Rodeo. Usage of the term has varied. In the late 2010s, the term began to be used

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Cowpunk

Cowpunk (or country punk) is a subgenre of country music and punk rock that began in the United Kingdom and Southern California in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It combines punk rock or new wave

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