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Genres and styles whose names start with OR.

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Oratorio

An oratorio () is a musical composition with dramatic or narrative text for choir, soloists and orchestra or other ensemble. Similar to opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an

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Orchestral jazz

Orchestral jazz or symphonic jazz is a form of jazz that developed in New York City in the 1920s. Early innovators of the genre, such as Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington, include some of the

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Orchestral pop

Orchestral pop is pop music that has been arranged and performed by a symphonic

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Orchestral song

The orchestral song (German ) is a late romantic genre of classical music for solo voices and

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Organ concerto

An organ concerto is a type of classical music composition in which a pipe organ soloist is accompanied by an orchestra, although some works exist with the name "concerto" which are for organ alone.

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Organ repertoire

The organ repertoire is considered to be the largest and oldest repertory of all musical instruments. Because of the organ's (or pipe organ's) prominence in worship in Western Europe from the Middle

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Organic house

Organic house is a subgenre of house music that emphasizes acoustic instruments and natural sounds. The genre was made as a way to express a "deeper, more meditative, and occasionally slower shades

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Organum

Organum () is, in general, a plainchant melody with at least one added voice to enhance the harmony, developed in the Middle Ages. Depending on the mode and form of the chant, a supporting bass line

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Origins of rock and roll

The origins of rock and roll are complex. Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States in the early to mid-1950s. It had derived most directly from the rhythm and blues music

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Orthodox pop

Orthodox pop, sometimes called Hasidic pop, Hasidic rock, K-pop (Kosher pop), Haredi pop, and

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