In music, a band is a group of musicians, or musical ensemble, usually popular or folk, playing parts of or improvising off of a musical arrangement. Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikicities has a wiki about Music: Music Music City : a collaborative music database All Music Guide: includes a comprehensive and flexible Genre and Style system MusicWiki: A Collaborative Music-related encyclopedia Science... A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ... A musical ensemble is, by definition, a group of three or more musicians who gather to perform music. ... Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and mostly distributed commercially. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ... Improvisation is the act of making something up as you go along. ... In popular music an arrangement is a setting of a piece of music, which may have been composed by the arranger or by someone else. ...

Types of bands

• all-women band
• big band
• brass band
• bluegrass band
• boy band
• girl group
• concert band (also known as a wind band or symphonic band)
• jazz band
• jug band
• marching band
• military band
• composite group
• pop group
• punk band
• rock band
• salsa band
• school band
• worship band

See also: List of bands All-women bands are musical groups where women sing and play all the instruments. ... A big band, also known as a jazz orchestra, is a large musical ensemble that plays jazz music, especially swing. ... The Lochgelly Band, a Scottish colliery band, circa 1890 A brass band is a musical group consisting mostly of brass instruments, often with a percussion section. ... A bluegrass band is a musical ensemble that specializes in playing bluegrass music. ... A boy band (American English) or boyband (British English) is a style of somewhat to mostly prefabricated pop group featuring between three and six young male singer/dancers, but normally five. ... A girl group, as the name implies, is a musical group featuring a group of female singers. ... A wind band, also called concert band, symphonic band, or wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of woodwind, brass, percussion instruments, and often string bass. ... A jazz band is a musical ensemble that plays jazz music. ... A jug band is a band employing a jug player and other traditional and homemade instruments, such as rhythm guitar, washtub bass, washboard, jug, mandolin, spoons, and kazoo. ... A marching band performs in a parade A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors, and who incorporate movement â€“ usually some type of marching â€“ with their musical performance. ... Military Band marching A military band is a group of soldiers assigned to musical duties. ... The Pop Group were a post punk band from Bristol, United Kingdom whose uncompromising, dissonant sound spanned punk, free jazz and dub reggae. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Rock band (or rock group) is a generic name to describe a group of musicians specializing in a particular form of electronically amplified music. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... A group of young musicians who play together for school credit under the direction of a band teacher. ... A worship band (sometimes referred to as a praise band) is a band that leads singing in Christian worship. ... // Argentina Los Auténticos Decadentes A77aque Almendra Babasonicos Cadena Perpetua Charly García Los Enanitos Verdes Los Fabulosos Cadillacs Fito Paez Flema Kapanga Patricio Rey Y Sus Redonditos De Ricota Pescado Rabioso La Renga Los Pericos Seru Giran Soda Estereo Sui Generis Todos Tus Muertos Virus Australia See also: list...