type or kind of musical work (e.g. kiba, opera, quartet, rap)
A term used to classify literary works such as poetry, fairy tales, historical fiction, mysteries, etc.
(Coinage by Alan Beck) In radio, genres differentiate strands and formats such as music, radio drama, commercials, documentaries and sports commentaries.
The overall style or setting of a game, examples: SF, fantasy, anime, spies, cyberpunk, horror. Genres can be mixed such as cyber-horror.
French word for kind or sort. A specific category of subject matter, such as marine, portrait, landscape.
A classification of story based on common elements such as style, plot, characterization, setting, etc. Examples - Angst, Humor, Sci-Fi, Horror, Western, etc. Still waiting for that AFI western...
classification of music by some combination of function, medium, form, or idiom; examples are: opera (voices, orchestra, dramatic action, staging), etude (an exercise composed for developing skills on an instrument), lullaby (song used to put one to sleep), dirge (a funeral music).
A category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique or content; any type of discourse that possesses distinguishable conventions of form.
the largest category for classifying literature--fiction, poetry, drama. See kind and subgenre.
A category of artistic work marked by a particular specified form, technique, or content.
A style of music, such as Rock, Classical, Jazz, Soul, and Gospel. You can label the Genre attribute of your songs using whatever words you like, even using compound words to further refine their description; such as EasyRock, SouthernGospel, and DepressionEraJazz.
A known type of play which includes standard conventions, eg farce, musical, tragedy.
The conventions, background assumptions and playing styles of a given module, book or film. The 'culture', or unwritten rules of a given roleplaying environment. Common genres include sword and sorcery, romance, chivalry, gumshoe, gothic, slapstick, swash buckling, soap opera...
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 12 An established class or category of artistic composition or literature (e.g., poetry, drama or novel).
(Fr. for gender) : Kind, type. Genre in music terminology is typically related to performing force, e.g. the symphony grand opera the string quartet the piano sonata the concert overture It's useful to think in terms of genre because works within a category share both a history and a level of expectations, and because you can get beyond thinking by composer.
A "kind" of piece of music, usually defined by its performing forces, style, and/or form. The primary genres we study in this course are: aria, art song, concerto, concerto grosso, dance suite, Gregorian chant, keyboard works, madrigal, mass, motet, opera, oratorio, organum, piano music, piano sonata, program music, recitative, solo concerto, sonata, and symphony. Things that are NOT genres include historical periods, titles of works, country of origin, or descriptive words like "homophonic" or "sacred." HEAR IT
A genre is a category, or type, of literature. Literature is commonly divided into three major genres: poetry, prose, and drama. Each major genre can be divided into smaller genres.
Genre generally denotes nothing more than a category of book, as in mystery, romance, western, science fiction, historical, etc. Sometimes genre is referred to as "category fiction," and within most categories there are "sub-categories." Sub-categories within the mystery genre, for example, include novels often referred to as cozies, hard-boiled, thrillers, police procedurals, and more. There is a great deal of crossover and sometimes debate in the interpretation of sub-categories, but publishers frequently rely on them to market their books, and booksellers rely on them to help customers identify new titles they might enjoy reading.
A critical category for organizing films according to shared themes, styles, and narrative structures; examples are "horror films" and "gangster films."
A type of style, especially of art or literature. In our case this is a type of music or dance.
Specific kinds of media content, e.g., drama, entertainment, information, news, advertising, etc. Each category is defined with traditional conventions, but categories may overlap as in "docu-drama" or "info-tainment."
Genre is the type of something. For example, magic tales, fabliau, and Schwankmärchen are different genre of folktales. Three different genre of movies include drama, science fiction, and horror.
The type of literature. For example, the novel, poetry, drama, or the short story are all genres.
French: n. a literary "form" such as tragedy, comedy, epic, pastoral, lyric, novel, essay and biography.
(GEN·re). The class or category of a writing, e.g., gospel, letter, poetry, prophecy, apocalyptic, narrative, parable, wisdom, and the like.
a general type or kind of music
A specific category of literature, marked by a distinctive style form or content.
a French term denoting a specific type of literature or literary form. There are varying ways of distinguishing among genre, but since Plato and Aristotle there has emerged a lasting division into three generic classes: lyric, epic (or narrative), and drama. In contemporary terms this often translates into distinctions among poetry, narrative prose fiction and nonfiction, and drama.
Any purposeful activity that is characteristic of a cultural community. It has a characteristic staged generic structure-for example, fable, debate, spy novel, buying and selling, commercial and short news report.-English syllabus.
French for "kind"; a term used in dramatic theory to signify a distinctive class or category of play, such as tragedy, comedy, farce, and so on.
The literary classification to which a text belongs. E.g. A Tale of Two Cities is a novel; "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" is comedy.
a kind of literary or artistic work
a style of expressing yourself in writing
an expressive style of music
a basic-level category, which has specified values for most of the seven attributes suggested above and which is maximally distinct from other categories at the same level
a category of artistic composition, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content
a category of literature, with a distinctive style
a category of writing that has a particular kind of content or structure, such as narrative, mystery, fantasy, sci-fi, etc
a category that classifies what kind of content and game play a game is likely to contain
a classification system that places different instructional materials into neat categories that help teachers choose what to use and when
a distinctive category or type of literary work
a group or collection of books with a similar theme or style
a kind of literature, like mysteries, biographies, autobiographies, nonfiction, humor, poetry
a kind of music, as it is acknowledged by a community for any reason or purpose or criteria, i
a literary tradition in which certain designs and decorations have become characteristic, either as essential parts or as gratuitous additions
a particular style of music, such as classical or rock
a specific subset within a medium, bound by particular themes/visuals/etc, such as noir crime, mystery, romance, fantasy or science fiction
a term used to describe a specific category of book, mostly relating to fiction
a title to describe music
a transaction between a body of texts and a reading audience," he said, and so science fiction is what people read as science fiction
a type, form, or kind of folklore/expressive culture
a type of literature such as ABC books or number books
a type of literature, such as narrative, prophecy, poetry, gospel, letter or apocalyptic
a type of work of art, categorized by its style, its form or its subject matter
a type or category of media product which has distinctive main features
A descriptive category identifying the physical format and/or purpose of an item. See also Genre Terms.
Music type or category: Rock, Classical, Country, Jazz, Pop, etc.
a form or type of literature (e.g., fiction, poetry, drama, the essay)
describes a type of fiction like Science Fiction, Romance, Mystery etc.
A group of paintings placed into a distinctive group with respect to style, form, or purpose.
A category of literature. The main literary genres are fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
Type or class, classification of literature.
A term used in literary criticism to describe a literary form. Traditional dramatic genres are comedy and tragedy.
in the context of digital audio, applies to a category list of music styles.
A specific category of books, such as historical, romance, or science fiction.
The type of category approriate for a work, for example science fiction.
The form of a literary work, such as novel, lyric poem, narrative poem, drama. For British Literature I the chief literary genres are drama (the plays of Shakespeare), narrative poem (Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, John Milton's Paradise Lost), and lyric poems (the sonnets of Shakespeare, for example). The word genre comes from the Latin term of classification genus.
Broad category or kind of book, generally denoted by the book's subject matter. Some examples of book genres include romance, sci-fi, self-help and true crime.
Term designating a specific kind of material distinguished by the style, technique, or format of its contents, for example; biography, encyclopedia, dictionary, video.
a kind or style, especially in music, art and literature
A means of categorizing works of art based on style, form, and subject matter. History painting and landscape are genres of painting; horror and romantic comedy are genres of film; detective and science fiction are genres of literature.
a distinct category of written works that has its own characteristics (poetry, myth, fable)
is a class or category of literary work having a particular form, techniques, and content (e.g., poetry, folk tales, essay).
A particular category of writing such as poem, novel, or short story, or a sub-category such as sonnet or sestina. Commercial fiction genres include mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, western, romance, etc.
a specific category of dance that has a tradition or history and is identifiable by specific characteristics, social functions, and cultural contexts (e.g., romantic ballet, hip hop, kapa haka)
A particular type of text, having specific and distinctive characteristics arising from its purpose, function, and audience. Genres are not fixed or discrete categories. Examples in written text include narratives, reports, instructions, journals, essays, poems, and letters; oral genres include conversations, prayers, and speeches; visual genres include documentaries, feature films, soap operas, and cartoons. These may be analysed into more specific genres. For example, feature films could be grouped as westerns, thrillers, musicals, and comedies.
Among freaks who are into writing and publishing, “genre†refers to the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror fields, and implies that they largely overlap each other.
A category of artistic, musical or literary composition characterized by a particular form, style or content. Poetry, for example, is a literary genre and lyric verse is a poetic genre. Sidelight: The term, genre, is frequently used interchangeably with "type" and "kind."
A game's classification or type as broken down into two broad subcategories: turn type (real-time, turn-based, pause-and-effect, etc.) and category (action, strategy, sports, shooter, role-playing, casino, etc.). Also see The Real Game Cube.
(F. from L. genus 'kind'; Åéµô¡N¤åÅé): A certain form or style of writing; e.g. poetry, novel, essay.
General term describing the standard category and overall character of a work.
A kind or type of film (horror, sitcom, drama, etc.)
Categories of comic book subject matter; e.g. Science Fiction, Super Hero, Romance, Funny Animal, Teenage Humor, Crime, War, Western, Mystery, Horror, etc.
A category of literary forms (novel, lyric poem, epic, for example).
A category a game fits into, such as fighting, driving, action, puzzle. Games within a genre generally share similar styles of gameplay, goals and characters.
Describes a category of fiction like romance, mystery or science fiction.
A type or category of music (e.g., sonata, opera, oratorio, art song, gospel, jazz, madrigal, march, work song, lullaby, barbershop, dixieland)
A category used to define literary works, usually by form, technique, or content ( i.e., poetry, realistic fiction, historical fiction, play, and folklore)
Comic books grouped together into categories according to subject matter.
a broad category of music (e.g., rock, jazz, choral music); or a particular type of music that has a tradition or history and is identifiable by specific characteristics (e.g., the sonata, rock opera)
a category of literary composition characterized by a particular style, form or content. (See Step 3 for a list of genre.)
the form of a literary work, such as tragedy, comedy, romance, epic, lyric and pastoral. Genres have characteristic subjects, reader expectations, and processes of unfolding. Works in a genre may have similar protagonists and styles. "Hard-boiled fiction" is a genre, as in the mystery novel.
a type of film for which audience have a set of particular expectations in regard to plot, style, tone, outcome, and theme.
a category of expression (art, oral tradition, literature) distinguished by a definite style, form, or content, such as folktales, legends, proverbs, ballads, or myths
In music, a broad class or type of music. Genres are defined in various ways, such as by instrument (music for accordion, didgeridoo), by instrumental group (chamber orchestra, music for gamelan), by style (country and western, Gregorian chant), by culture (gagaku, bossa nova, flamenco), by spectacle (opera, puppet theater, jig), by texture (monody, polyphony, heterophony), by technical musical features (minor key, slendro, compound meter), etc. See also schema.
the type of story being told which encapsulates particular rules, styles, definitions, etc. of the style of the story.
A general classification of writing. ex: romance, mystery, science fiction, fantasy etc.
Literary "kind" or "type" refers to comedy or tragedy (or various combinations of two; drama, farce, etc.)
A style or type, in this case relating specifically to literature; e.g., science-fiction, mystery, romance, etc.
A category of media texts characterized by a particular style, form or content.
A type of literature, art, or music characterized by its particular form or style (such as poetry, fiction, or drama).
sales and marketing category into which the title falls (e.g. mystery, suspense, horror, how-to, self-help.)
A category of art distinguished by a definite style, form or content; especially a style of painting concerned with depicting scenes and subjects of common everyday life.
A type of film as defined by theme, style, narrative structure, or content. An example would be the ¡§horror film¡¨ or ¡§melodrama.
is a French word meaning kind or type. The major genres in literature are poetry, fiction, drama, and essays. Genre can also refer to more specific types of literature such as comedy, tragedy, epic poetry, or science fiction. Example: The genre of Antigone would be a tragic drama.
A type or category of literature marked by conventions of style, format, and/or content. Genres include: mystery, fantasy, epic poetry, etc.
The category of a CD, TV show or movie. Examples: Country & Western, Classical, Piano, Easy Listening, Drama, Soap Opera, Documentary, Adventure, Comedy, Romance.
A type or category (e.g., music - opera, oratorio; theater - tragedy, comedy; dance - modern, ballet; visual arts- pastoral, scenes of everyday life).
form or type of literary content, such as a novel, tragedy, comedy, or poem.
a category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique, or content. Note: Classic literary genres are tragedy, comedy, epic, lyric, and pastoral. "Today, the novel, essay, short story, television play, and motion picture scenario are also considered genres" (Holman & Harmon, 1992).
A grouping of movies into its general plot categories.
A type or category of dance (e.g. jazz, modern, ballet, etc).
The category a story or script falls into - such as: thriller, romantic comedy, action, screwball comedy
A category of music, such as jazz, classical, alternative, pop, etc.
The term used by literary critics as the equivalent of "type of literature"; the basic genres found in the Hebrew Bible are prose and poetry, with many different sub-types including song, hymn, story, saying, speech, law, genealogy, saga, history. See Introduction.
Literally, kind or type. In literary and dramatic studies, genre refers to the main types of literary form, principally tragedy and comedy. The term can also refer to forms that are more specific to a given historical era, such as the revenge tragedy, or to more specific subgenres of tragedy and comedy, such as the comedy of manners.
A type or category that is distinctive in style, form, or content. For example, reports and narratives are different genres of writing.
A category of literary texts defined by their shard characteristics. Poetry, drama and fiction are genres; so are romance fiction, horror fiction, and fiction for children. Within children's literature, there are many subgenres, nonsense poetry, time fantasies, tall tales, and so on.
Type or kind of musical work (e.g., opera, jazz, mariachi).
a category of literary work (e.g., fiction, drama, poetry).
A particular kind or style of dance, such as ballet, jazz, modern, folk, tap.
specialized fiction books such as mystery fiction, science fiction, historical fiction, romance novels, westerns, etc.
The class or category of an object when considered as an intellectual work.
A broad categorization of dance, incorporating several related dance styles. (e.g., Fox trot, rumba, and tango are styles within the genre of ballroom; disco, lambada, and line dancing are styles within the genre of social dance.)
a category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique or, content. Classic literary genres are tragedy, comedy, epics, lyric, and pastoral. Children quickly learn to identify such genres as fairy tales, and mysteries.
a collective grouping or general category of literary works; a large class or group that consists of individual works of literature that share common attributes (e.g., similar themes, characters, plots, or styles). Examples: drama, epic, lyric poem, novel, etc.
A category of literary work. In critical theory, genre may refer to both the content of a given work — tragedy, Comedy, pastoral — and to its form, such as Poetry, novel, or drama. This term also refers to types of popular literature, as in the genres of Science Fiction or the detective story.
Kind or style of literary output e.g. poem, novel, play, short story etc.
A genre [], (French: "kind" or "sort") is a division of a particular form of art or utterance according to criteria particular to that form. In all art forms, genres are vague categories with no fixed boundaries. Genres are formed by sets of conventions, and many works cross into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions.