A Taxonomy of Musical Genres « http://www.csl.sony.fr/downloads/papers/2000/pachet-riao2000.pdf | | Two french experts re-define genres to improve musical databases for electronic distribution , paper submitted to a conference in paris in 2000. |
All Music Guide « http://allmusic.com/ | | Portal built around articles by music journalists describing music genres , with links and reviews. |
American Music Center: Musical Genres « http://www.amc.net/links/genres.html | | Links to articles and representative artists of styles such as pop , rock , blues , folk , classical , theater , jazz , and world music. |
AOL Music - Styles « http://music.aol.com/musicstyles/styles | | Browse and listen to songs and artists categorized by style. |
Audiogalaxy: Glossary of Musical Styles « http://www.audiogalaxy.com/list/glossary.php | | Hundreds of sub-genres defined in non-technical language mentioning sample artists. organized under headings such as pop , hip-hop , jazz , blues , classical , latin , modern rock , rock , and heavy metal. |
Christian Music Place: Artists by Genre « http://www.christianmusic.org/cmp/artists/index.cgi?command=Display_Genre | | About two dozen musical genres including blues , a capella , dance/techno , and southern gospel , with as many as several hundred links to christian music artists in each. |
DataDragon: Music Genre Sampler « http://datadragon.com/education/genres/ | | Children's site with simple definitions of a few genres including rock , celtic , and classical with artist and site links. |
Ectophiles Guide by Genre « http://ectoguide.org/genre | | Self-described " guide to good music" from a group founded in 1991 to support the music of singer happy rhodes. links to artists , almost entirely female vocalists , sorted by genre such as pop , blues , experimental , performance art , beautiful and f |
Indiana University School of Music: Genres « http://library.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/genres.html | | Categorized links organized by researchers at the william and gayle cook music library. categories include 20th-century music , ancient music , band music , tango , flamenco , ragtime , and choral music. |
InfoUSA: Musical Genres « http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/arts/genres.htm | | Links organized by genre such as blues and jazz , classical and opera , folk and country , and early american music. |
Music Classification by Genre: System Performance « http://cnx.org/content/m11690/latest/ | | Research project completed in 2003 by mitali banerjee at rice university used automatic process to determine musical genre of audio samples. |
Music Web Hunter: Styles & Genres « http://www.kendavies.net/musicwebhunter/stylegenre.html | | Ken davies has grouped resources in five categories: classical , folk/ethnic/world , jazz , musicals/operas/theater , and pop/rock/country. |
Representing Musical Genre: A State of the Art « http://www.idiap.ch/~paiement/references/to_read/music/genre_classification/pachet-02c.pdf | | Journal of new music research article from 2003 discusses manual , prescriptive , and emergent approaches to genre classification for the european cuidado project , content-based unified interfaces and descriptors for audio/music databases available online. |
Wikipedia: Musical Genre « http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_genre | | Brief explanation of the way styles can be defined by region , chronology , technical requirements , marketing trends , or the ideas of critics. extensively linked to sub-genres and examples of significant artists. |