Wectar - Arts - Music - Styles

Subcategories
African@	Alternative Rock@	Big Band@	Blues@	Broadway@	By Decade
Cajun and Zydeco@	Celtic@	Choral@	Christian@	Classical@	Comedy@
Country@	Dance@	Disco@	Early Music@	Easy Listening@	Electronic@
Electronica@	Experimental@	Folk@	Gamelan@	Gospel@	Heavy Metal@
Hip Hop@	House@	Humor and Parody@	Jazz@	Klezmer@	Latin@
Lounge@	Marching@	Middle Eastern@	Military Bands and Music@	Native American@	Opera@
Parody and Humor@	Polka@	Pop@	Progressive Rock@	Punk@	Rap@
Reggae@	Regional and Ethnic@	Religious@	Rhythm and Blues@	Rock@	Show Tunes@
Ska@	Swing@	Techno@	Traditional Pop@	Vocal@	Worldbeat@
Zydeco@

	Audiogalaxy: Glossary of Musical Styles URL: http://www.audiogalaxy.com/list/glossary.php ODP description: Hundreds of sub-genres defined in non-technical language mentioning sample artists. Organized under headings such as pop, hip-hop, jazz, blues, classical, Latin, modern rock, rock, and heavy metal.
	Music Classification by Genre: System Performance URL: http://cnx.org/content/m11690/latest/ ODP description: Research project completed in 2003 by Mitali Banerjee at Rice University used automatic process to determine musical genre of audio samples.
	Music Web Hunter: Styles & Genres URL: http://www.kendavies.net/musicwebhunter/stylegenre.html ODP description: Ken Davies has grouped resources in five categories: classical, folk/ethnic/world, jazz, musicals/operas/theater, and pop/rock/country. Page title: Music Web Hunter - Styles & Genres - by Ken Davies Page description: An annotated guide to music resources in style and genre catagories.
	All Music Guide URL: http://allmusic.com/ ODP description: Portal built around articles by music journalists describing music genres, with links and reviews. Page title: allmusic
	Music Genre Sampler @ DataDragon URL: http://datadragon.com/education/genres/ ODP description: Learn about different musical genres including rock, Celtic, and classical. Includes information about artist and site links. Page description: Learn about different musical genres including rock, Celtic, classical, and more all with artist and site links.
	Ectophiles Guide by Genre URL: http://ectoguide.org/genre ODP description: Self-described "Guide to Good Music" from a group founded in 1991 to support the music of singer Happy Rhodes. Links to artists, almost entirely female vocalists, sorted by genre such as pop, blues, experimental, performance art, beautiful and fierce, and traditional. Page title: The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music - by Genre Page description: The Guide is a comprehensive database of musical artists and groups as seen through the comments and reviews of the ectophiles.
	A Taxonomy of Musical Genres URL: http://www.csl.sony.fr/downloads/papers/2000/pachet-riao2000.pdf ODP description: Two French experts re-define genres to improve musical databases for electronic distribution, paper submitted to a conference in Paris in 2000.
	Indiana University School of Music: Genres URL: http://library.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/genres.html ODP description: Categorized links organized by researchers at the William and Gayle Cook Music Library. Categories include 20th-Century music, ancient music, band music, tango, flamenco, ragtime, and choral music. Page title: Worldwide Internet Music Resources: Genres
	Wikipedia: Musical Genre URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_genre ODP description: Brief explanation of the way styles can be defined by region, chronology, technical requirements, marketing trends, or the ideas of critics. Extensively linked to sub-genres and examples of significant artists. Page title: Music genre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
	Christian Music Place: Artists by Genre URL: http://www.christianmusic.org/cmp/artists/index.cgi?command=Display_Genre ODP description: About two dozen musical genres including blues, a capella, dance/techno, and Southern gospel, with as many as several hundred links to Christian music artists in each. Page title: Christian Music Place Artists Database: Genre Listing
	Representing Musical Genre: A State of the Art URL: http://www.idiap.ch/~paiement/references/to_read/music/genre_classification/pachet-02c.pdf ODP description: Journal of New Music Research article from 2003 discusses manual, prescriptive, and emergent approaches to genre classification for the European CUIDADO project, Content-Based Unified Interfaces and Descriptors for Audio/Music Databases Available Online.