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Genres and styles whose names start with FR.
Franco-Flemish School
The designation Franco-Flemish School, also called Netherlandish School, Burgundian School, Low Countries School, Flemish School, Dutch School, or Northern School, refers to the style of polyphonic
Read → EntryFrat rap
Frat rap is a subgenre of hip hop music that emerged in the late 2000s. It is sonically easygoing with a straightforward rhyming style and singsong cadence accompanied by a lyrical focal point on
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Freak folk is a subgenre of psychedelic folk associated with the 2000s New Weird America movement and used to describe the work of artists such as Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Animal Collective,
Read → EntryFreakbeat
Freakbeat is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music originally coined by English music journalist Phil Smee in 1986 to refer to "hard-edged" British mod groups during the British Invasion and
Read → EntryFree improvisation
Free improvisation (also known as free-form music) is a form of improvised music centered on a commitment to non-idiomatic musical expression. It developed through free jazz, serialism and
Read → EntryFree jazz
Free jazz (also known as free form jazz ) is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when musicians attempted
Read → EntryFree tekno
Free tekno, also known as tekno, freetekno and hardtek, is the music predominantly played at free parties in Europe. The spelling tekno is deliberately used to differentiate the musical style from
Read → EntryFreedom song
Freedom songs were songs which were sung by participants in the civil rights movement. They are also called "civil rights anthems" or, in the case of songs which are more hymn-like, they are called
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Freestyle music, also known as freestyle, Latin freestyle or Latin hip-hop, and sometimes Latin rap is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in the New York metropolitan area, Philadelphia,
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Freestyle rap, also simply known as freestyle, is a style of hip-hop music where an artist normally improvises an unwritten verse, with or without instrumental beats, in which lyrics are recited with
Read → EntryFrench classical music
French classical music began with the sacred music of the Roman Catholic Church, with written records predating the reign of Charlemagne. It includes all of the major genres of sacred and secular,
Read → EntryFrench electronic music
French electronic music is a panorama of French music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. Notable early French artists and composers in
Read → EntryFrench folk music
As Europe experienced a wave of roots revivals in the 1950s and 1960s, France found its regional culture reviving traditional music. Brittany, Limousin, Gascony, Corsica and Auvergne were among the
Read → EntryFrench hip-hop
French hip-hop or French rap ( ), is the hip-hop style developed in French-speaking countries. France is the second largest hip-hop market in the world after the United
Read → EntryFrench house
French house (also referred to as French touch, filter house, or tekfunk) is a style of house music devised by French musicians in the 1990s. It is a form of Eurodisco and a popular strand of the
Read → EntryFrench jazz
Jazz music has been popular in France since the 1920s. Its international popularity peaked in the 1930s, and it has been continually enjoyed
Read → EntryFrench opera
French opera is both the art of opera in France and opera in the French language. It is one of Europe's most important operatic traditions, containing works by composers of the stature of Rameau,
Read → EntryFrench organ school
The French organ school formed in the first half of the 17th century. It progressed from the strict polyphonic music of Jean Titelouze ( 1563–1633) to a unique, richly ornamented style with its own
Read → EntryFrench overture
The French overture is a musical form widely used in the Baroque period. Its basic formal division is into two parts, which are usually enclosed by double bars and repeat signs. They are
Read → EntryFrench pop music
French pop music is pop music sung in the French language. It is usually performed by singers from France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, or any of the other Francophone areas of the world. The target
Read → EntryFrench popular music
French popular music is a music of France belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and mostly distributed commercially. It stands in contrast to French
Read → EntryFrench punk
French punk is punk rock from France. Punk rock developed in France in the mid-1970s, strongly influenced by the scenes in the United States and United Kingdom, but also influencing the latter. The
Read → EntryFrench-Canadian music
French Canadian music is music derived from that brought by the early French settlers to what is now Quebec and other areas throughout Canada, or any music performed by the French Canadian people.
Read → EntryFrenchcore
Frenchcore is a subgenre of hardcore techno. The style differs from other forms of hardcore in terms of a faster tempo, usually above 160–185 BPM, and a loud and distorted offbeat bassline. In the
Read → EntryFrevo
Frevo is a dance and musical style originating from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, traditionally associated with Brazilian Carnival. The word frevo is said to come from frever, a variant of the
Read → EntryFrottola
The frottola (; plural frottole) was the predominant type of Italian popular secular song of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. It was the most important and widespread predecessor to
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