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Genres and styles whose names start with VE.

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Vè (chữ Nôm: 噅) or Đồng dao (chữ Hán: 童謠) is a poetic and song form for children, most typical of

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Vedic chant

The oral tradition of the Vedas () consists of several pathas, "recitations" or ways of chanting the Vedic mantras. Such traditions of Vedic chant are often considered the oldest unbroken oral

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Venetian polychoral style

The Venetian polychoral style was a type of music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras which involved spatially separate choirs singing in alternation. It represented a major stylistic

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Venezuelan merengue

Merengue is a musical form extended through all the Caribbean. The first occurrences of merengue in print in Venezuela are from scores of “dance merengue” of the second half of the 19th century. As a

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Venezuelan rock

Venezuelan rock is rock music from Venezuela, the most common being based on Rock en

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Verbunkos

Verbunkos (), other spellings being Verbounko, Verbunko, Verbunkas, Werbunkos, Werbunkosch, Verbunkoche; sometimes known simply as the hongroise or ungarischer Tanz is an 18th-century Hungarian dance

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Verdiales

Verdiales are a traditional music, song and dance form from the Province of Málaga in Andalusia, southern Spain. They are closely related to the fandango and are often described as one of the oldest

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Verismo

In opera, , from , meaning 'true', was a post-Romantic operatic tradition associated with Italian composers such as Pietro Mascagni, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Umberto Giordano, Francesco Cilea and Giacomo

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Verse anthem

In religious music, the verse anthem is a type of choral music, or song, distinct from the motet or 'full' anthem (i.e. for full choir). In the 'verse' anthem the music alternates between sections

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Vesnianky

Vesnianka () is a type of spring dance songs performed in the lands of present-day Ukraine. While they pre-date Christianity, Christian missionaries altered many of the dances by incorporating

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