Music Vocabulary

People all over the world love listening to music. They love going to concerts to hear live music,
and they love listening to recordings of their favourite artists. If you love music too, and you'd
like to read about music and learn lots of music vocabulary, this section of English Club is for
you.

Some people love listening to the melodies and lyrics of pop music, and others love moving to
the beat of dance music. Some prefer the beautiful harmonies of classical music, and others
like the complex rhythms of jazz or the power and excitement of rock music. There are those
who like the strong beats and lyrics of hip hop, or the music of other genres like country music,
folk music and Latin music.

The many genres of music can be divided into three main types:

 Traditional music (for example, folk music)

 Art music (for example, classical music)
 Popular music (for example, hip hop or rock music)

Of these three types, it's popular music that most people like and listen to, and it's this type of
music we focus on here. On these pages, you can read about the history of popular music, learn
about its main genres, and find out about some of its most important artists.