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A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.〔Samson, Jim. ("Genre" ). In Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Accessed March 4, 2012.〕 It is to be distinguished from ''musical form'' and ''musical style'', although in practice these terms are sometimes used interchangeably.〔(【引用サイトリンク】year=2011 )〕 Music can be divided into different genres in many different ways. The artistic nature of music means that these classifications are often subjective and controversial, and some genres may overlap. There are even varying academic definitions of the term ''genre ''itself. In his book ''Form in Tonal Music'', Douglass M. Green distinguishes between genre and form. He lists madrigal, motet, canzona, ricercar, and dance as examples of genres from the Renaissance period. To further clarify the meaning of ''genre'', Green writes, "Beethoven's Op. 61 and Mendelssohn's Op. 64 are identical in genre – both are violin concertos – but different in form. However, Mozart's Rondo for Piano, K. 511, and the ''Agnus Dei'' from his Mass, K. 317 are quite different in genre but happen to be similar in form." Some, like Peter van der Merwe, treat the terms ''genre'' and ''style'' as the same, saying that ''genre'' should be defined as pieces of music that share a certain style or "basic musical language." Others, such as Allan F. Moore, state that ''genre'' and ''style'' are two separate terms, and that secondary characteristics such as subject matter can also differentiate between genres.〔Moore, Allan F. ("Categorical Conventions in Music Discourse: Style and Genre" ). ''Music & Letters'', Vol. 82, No. 3 (Aug. 2001), pp. 432–442.〕 A music genre or subgenre may also be defined by the musical techniques, the style, the cultural context, and the content and spirit of the themes. Geographical origin is sometimes used to identify a music genre, though a single geographical category will often include a wide variety of subgenres. Timothy Laurie argues that since the early 1980s, "genre has graduated from being a subset of popular music studies to being an almost ubiquitous framework for constituting and evaluating musical research objects".〔 20 (2), pp. 283-292.〕 Among the criteria often used to classify musical genres are the trichotomy of art, popular, and traditional musics. ==The art/popular/traditional distinction== Musicologists have sometimes classified music according to a trichotomic distinction such as Philip Tagg's "axiomatic triangle consisting of 'folk', 'art' and 'popular' musics".〔Tagg, Philip. "Analysing Popular Music: Theory, Method and Practice". ''Popular Music'' 2 (1982): 41.〕 He explains that each of these three is distinguishable from the others according to certain criteria.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Music genre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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