Music History & Genres
📋 What it is
Music styles (genres) developed over time; each era and genre has recognisable features.
🗣️ Coach says
Music has a long story. Different times and places grew different GENRES — classical, jazz, rock, hip-hop — each with its own instruments, rhythms and feel. Genres borrow from each other over time. Knowing a genre's features lets you place a song by ear.
🧠 Memory hook
Genres = styles that grew over time, each with its own feel. They borrow from each other.
😂 Giggle
Why did the chord go to therapy?
It had too many unresolved tensions!
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Rock, jazz, hip-hop and pop all trace roots back to earlier styles like the blues — genres are a family tree, not separate islands.
✅ Quick check: What is a musical "genre"?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
A style of music with recognisable shared features (instruments, rhythms, feel), such as jazz or hip-hop.
Genres are categories defined by shared musical characteristics that developed over time.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Name two genres you can tell apart by ear — what gives each one away?