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Genres and styles whose names start with FI.

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Fiddle-singing

Fiddle-singing is a vocal–instrumental performance practice in which a musician sings while simultaneously playing the fiddle (violin), often maintaining rhythmic bowing patterns or melodic

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Field holler

The field holler or field call is mostly a historical type or figure of vocal work song sung by field slaves in the United States (and later by African American forced laborers accused of violating

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Field recording

Field recording is the production of audio recordings outside recording studios, and the term applies to recordings of both natural and human-produced sounds. It can also include the recording of

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Fife and drum blues

Fife and drum blues is an American folk music form derived from country blues, martial music tradition, and African rhythms. It is performed typically with one lead fife player and a troop of

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Fife and drum corps

A fife and drum corps is a musical ensemble consisting of a fife, a snare drum and a bass drum. In the United States of America, fife and drum corps specializing in colonial period impressions using

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Fight song

A fight song is a rousing short song associated with a sports team. These songs are commonly played several times at a sporting event. In Australian rules football, the team song is traditionally

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Fijiri

(; sometimes spelled , , or ) is the specific repertoire of vocal music sung by the pearl divers of Eastern Arabia's coastal Gulf states, especially Bahrain and Kuwait. A lead singer is backed up by

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Filk music

Filk music is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction, fantasy, and horror fandom and a type of fan labor. The genre has existed since the early 1950s and been played

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Film score

A film score is original music specifically written to accompany a film or a television program. The score constitutes a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues that are

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Filmi pop

Filmi pop (Urdu: فلمی موسیقی filmi mosiqi) is a term first coined by Pakistani music journalist, Ali Tim in 1990 but made famous by the country's most influential pop critic, Nadeem F. Paracha. In

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Filmi qawwali

Filmi qawwali (. , ) is a form of qawwali music found in the Lollywood, Dhallywood, Tollywood, and Bollywood film industries. It represents a distinct subgenre of film music, although it usually

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Filmi-ghazal

The filmi-ghazal is a genre of music based on ghazal poetry in Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), used in Indian films, especially the music of Bollywood (Hindi cinema). The filmi-ghazals retain the couplet

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Finnish opera

The origins of Finnish opera can be traced to the late 18th or 19th century, when the first opera performances were staged in Finland. It is generally assumed that the first opera performance in

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Finnish tango

Finnish tango (), or FINtango, music is an established variation of the Argentine tango but whose rhythm follows the Ballroom tango. It was one of the most popular music forms for decades in

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First-wave black metal

The first wave of black metal was a musical movement of black metal which lasted from around 1982 until 1991. Stylistically distinct from the genre's quintessential later sound, the earliest bands in

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Five-finger exercise

A five-finger exercise is a musical composition designed primarily to exercise all five fingers of the hand. A typical example is Hanon's The Virtuoso Pianist in 60 Exercises. Chopin wrote a number

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