how many types of music are there?
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I'm not sure that this can be determined, at least world wide.  There are historical types as well as current popular types.\nwestern or cowboy, jazz, symphony, classical, chamber, indigenous North American, ballad, spiritual, church hymn, children, early rock-and-roll, marches, band, show tunes, fife and drum, soul, rhapsody, instrumentals, jingles and on
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Good grief - that's a bit of a broad question isn't it?  In one sense music is merely frequency - vibrations that our ears pick up and our brain converts to the sounds we call music.  In historical terms in 'classical' music it comes in a number of categories - roughly speaking it goes Mediaeval music - sort 1200s-1500s, Rennaisance Music, about 1500s, Baroque music, 1600s, Classical Music, 1700s, Romantic Music, 1800s, 20th Century Music and contemporary music.  OK, very rough dates, there are overlaps.  What do you want to know?  There's all kinds of stuff about musical analysis, notation, composing, conducting, performing etc etc
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Good way to find out.. go to ishkurs guide to electronic music..  http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html you can choose from house, trance, breaks, blah blah blah and you will then get branches of subgenres from each genre.  he explains each type of music and gives you samples of songs from each genre to listen to.  house is my favorite...
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It all really depends on what the composer specified. Monteverdi in his opera L'Orfeo specified in excess of 20, with numerous string, brass, and 2 harpsichord and 2 organ parts. Typically, a small orchestra is used. Never anything above 25, usually between 10-20, less in a chamber ensemble.
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Hello!  A modern symphony orchestra usually has about 16 first violins, 14 second violins, 12 violas, 8 to 10 cellos, and 6 to 8 basses.  It also has perhaps 4 french horns, two trumpets, three trombones, and maybe a tuba.  Woodwinds include two flutes, maybe a piccolo, two oboes, maybe an English horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, and possibly a contrabassoon.  Percussion includes a few timpani, maybe a bass drum.  In all, the orchestra has about 80 to 85 instruments.  For something like Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, though, there could be more like 120 instruments.
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Personally my taste in music is pretty versatile.  Sometimes it's the vocals, sometimes the lyrics, an instrument, or the beat. So it would be impossible to choose only one style of music.  But I can't imagine life without it.
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Drum.\nFlugelhorn\nHurdygurdy.\nVibraphone,Celeste etc
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Do you mean like: Country, rock, classical, punk, hip-hop, rap, christian, folk, swing, dance, big band, etc?
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Haha, ~Tan~ just copied and pasted that list from wikipedia. Hence the "cross-genre references" stuck in there. By the way, that list is entirely too long and most of those genres are too specific and nit-picky. Here's a real list:\n\nHeavy/Traditional Metal\nPower Metal\nThrash Metal\nDeath Metal\nBlack Metal\nProgressive Metal\nDoom Metal\nFolk Metal*\nSymphonic Metal*\n\n* Those last two sub-genres usually don't stand alone; they're often mixed with one of the other sub-genres from that list. Symphonic metal is usually incorporated into power or black metal and folk metal is usually incorporated into black or heavy metal.
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I personally like classic rock. There are a lot of great songs in that genre. Well with 3000 or more songs, you probably have a lot already so its kinda hard. have you tried green day?  some more good bands are Kiss, Aerosmith, ZZ Top, Edgar Winter Group, The Doors, Foghat, Pink Floyd, Rush, Steppenwolf, Journey, Ted Nugent, and hey, the list goes on and on. itunes doesn't have all of the good stuff too. They don't have The Beatles or AC/DC because they need permission from the artist to put music for sale there. I hope I've given you some helpful hints. Ozzy & Black Sabbath are great also.\n\nP.S. Great Question Too!
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Genre means a type or a category.\n\nIn music, there are lots of "genres."  Like, blues, rock, new wave, heavy metal, ballad, rockabilly, classical, jazz, techno, trance & so on and so forth............................................................................
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Well there are so many i can only name a few, Tuba, Car Crash, Flute, Piccalo, Fireworks and so much more!!!
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None, they all flow into one another at some point - R&B to Rock to Punk to alternative to Emo; classical to progressive rock; the blues to Heavy metal.  Even rap samples rock.  There is no best; only a matter of taste.
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If you told us what genera of music it was that would help.
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I believe you mean a medley. That is when parts of many different songs are played as one song.
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I like many types of music. I have no real favorite type of music. It's just that I don't like techno or heavy metal.
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Myspace.com and last.fm have a lot of diverse musical interests.  Check out this page for an example:  \nhttp://www.myspace.com/mumbleumbolous