| 单词 | genre |
| 释义 | genre (once / 1877 pages) n A genre is a specific type of music, film, or writing. Your favorite literary genre might be science fiction, and your favorite film genre might be horror flicks about cheerleaders. Go figure. In music, genre refers to musical style such as jazz, salsa or rock. In film or literature, the genre is determined by the subject, setting or plot of the story. When you are wandering around a book store, books are usually arranged by genre. Many genres, such as "mystery" or "fantasy," overlap in film and literature, while others, such as "romantic comedy" in film or "historical fiction" in books, are specific to one or the other. WORD FAMILYgenre: genres USAGE EXAMPLESStanley Kubrick’s foray into the horror genre, now a classic, is still unsettling. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) To devotees of British comic opera, “The Mikado” is one of the pinnacles of the genre. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) Is there a genre or category that your music fits into? New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1n a kind of literary or artistic work Hyper form, kind, sort, variety a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality 2n a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique Hypo|Hyper abstract art, abstractionism an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation chinoiseriea style in art reflecting Chinese influence; elaborately decorated and intricately patterned folk artgenre of art of unknown origin that reflects traditional values of a society genre paintinga genre depicting everyday life landscape, landscape paintinga genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery magic realisma literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative or meticulously realistic painting are combined with surreal elements of fantasy or dreams modernismgenre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres naive art, outsider art, primitive art, self-taught art, vernacular arta genre of art and outdoor constructions made by untrained artists who do not recognize themselves as artists pointillisma genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th century France postmodernismgenre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism primitivisma genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children synthetisma genre of French painting characterized by bright flat shapes and symbolic treatments of abstract ideas op arta style of abstractionism popular in the 1960s; produces dramatic visual effects with colors and contrasts that are difficult for the eye to resolve art, fine art the products of human creativity; works of art collectively 3n an expressive style of music Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper music genre, musical genre, musical style Hallel (Judaism) a chant of praise (Psalms 113 through 118) used at Passover and Shabuoth and Sukkoth and Hanukkah and Rosh Hodesh Hare Krishnaa chant to the Hindu god Krishna Dies Iraethe first words of a medieval Latin hymn describing the Last Judgment (literally `day of wrath') Internationalea revolutionary socialist anthem Te Deuman ancient liturgical hymn Messiahan oratorio composed by Handel in 1742 Magnificat(Luke) the canticle of the Virgin Mary (from Luke 1:46 beginning `Magnificat anima mea Dominum') African-American music, black music music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses classical, classical music, serious musictraditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste church music, religious musicgenre of music composed for performance as part of religious ceremonies march, marching musicgenre of music written for marching popular music, popular music genreany genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time) chamber musicserious music performed by a small group of musicians operaa drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes antiphon, antiphonya verse or song to be chanted or sung in response Massa musical setting for a Mass processional, prosodionreligious music used in a procession antiphonal, antiphonarybound collection of antiphons religious songreligious music for singing cantata, oratorioa musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text concertoa composition for orchestra and a soloist fuguea musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement rondeau, rondoa musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata sonataa musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms bluesa type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes martial music, military march, military musicbrisk marching music suitable for troops marching in a military parade processional march, recessional marcha march to be played for processions disco, disco musicpopular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques macumbapopular dance music of Brazil; derived from the practices of the macumba religious cult pop, pop musicmusic of general appeal to teenagers; a bland watered-down version of rock'n'roll with more rhythm and harmony and an emphasis on romantic love ethnic music, folk, folk musicthe traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community ballroom music, dance music, danceroom musica genre of popular music composed for ballroom dancing soula secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s jazza genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles hip-hop, rap, rap musicgenre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged R and B, rhythm and bluesa combination of blues and jazz that was developed in the United States by Black musicians; an important precursor of rock 'n' roll rockabillya fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s; sometimes described as blues with a country beat rock, rock 'n' roll, rock and roll, rock music, rock'n'roll, rock-and-rolla genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western reggaepopular music originating in the West Indies; repetitive bass riffs and regular chords played on the off beat by a guitar skifflea style of popular music in the 1950s; based on American folk music and played on guitars and improvised percussion instruments music an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner expressive style, stylea way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period 4n a style of expressing yourself in writing Syn|Hypo|Hyper literary genre, writing style drama the literary genre of works intended for the theater proseordinary writing as distinguished from verse forman arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse poesy, poetry, verseliterature in metrical form euphuisman elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology nonfiction, nonfictional proseprose writing that is not fictional interior monologuea literary genre that presents a fictional character's sequence of thoughts in the form of a monologue stream of consciousnessa literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy prose poemprose that resembles poetry polyphonic prosea rhythmical prose employing the poetic devices of alliteration and assonance eposa body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme closet dramadrama more suitable for reading that for performing comedylight and humorous drama with a happy ending tragedydrama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity epic poetry, heroic poetrypoetry celebrating the deeds of some hero versificationthe form or metrical composition of a poem expressive style, style a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period |
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