Rock (Español: Rock) - Popular music arising from and incorporating a variety of musical styles. Country (Español: Música del Campo) - Popular music based on the folk style of the southern rural United States or on the music of cowboys in the American West. Folk (Español: Canción Tradicional) - Music originating among the common people of a nation or region and spread about or passed down orally, often with considerable variation. Classical (Español: Música Clásica) - European music during the latter half of the 18th and the early 19th centuries. Flamenco (Español: Flamenco) - A dance style of the Andalusian Gypsies characterized by forceful, often improvised rhythms. Jazz (Español: Monsergas) - A style of music, native to America, characterized by a strong but flexible rhythmic understructure with solo and ensemble improvisations on basic tunes and chord patterns and, more recently, a highly sophisticated harmonic idiom. |