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Music genre at AllExperts (3382 words) |
 | A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or "basic musical language" (van der Merwe 1989, p.3). |
 | Melodic music is a term that covers various genres of non-classical music which are primarily characterised by the dominance of a single strong melody line. |
 | Melodic music is found in all parts of the world, overlapping many genres, and may be performed by a singer or orchestra, or a combination of the two. |
| Process music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (578 words) |
 | Process music or systems music is music which arises from a process, and more specifically, music which makes that process audible. |
 | James Tenney is another composer who is concerned with process, such as in his tribute to Steve Reich, Chromatic Canon, in which a tone row is eventually built up and, one note at a time, from what started as a repeated open fifth, before returning by the same path. |
 | Michael Nyman has described how the generally minimalistic tonal music associated with process music arose from the influence of and reaction against process-based music of extreme determinism or indeterminism using serial, aleatoric, and stochastic methods. |