Traditional music

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation.

umbrella term for traditional, indigenous, popular or art music, not following North American or British popular and folk traditions

music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque

Neapolitan song contest

music genre; singing style

thumb|upright=1.2|The Schrammel quartet in 1890 thumb|upright=1.2|Trio Wien, Stadt.Fest.Wien 2009 thumb|upright=1.2|The Extremschrammeln, Donauinselfest 2008