Genre List

List of genres, styles and show formats

Table of Contents Television Formats Theatre Genres Children Music Styles Radio formats Miscellaneous

Television Formats

• Medical Series
• Advice Programs: Medical Topics
• Docu-Soap: Emigrants, Child-Rearing, Home Decorating
• Trial Broadcast
• Church Service, Televangelist
• Eurovision Contest
• Chart Show
• Infotainment
• Children's Programming (Sesame Street, Mouse TV)
• Cooking Show
• Comedy Stall
• Cultural Programing / Arts
• Art and Junk (antiques experts give advice)
• Music Stall
• News Programme (Tagesschau)
• Reality TV
• Travel / Cities Magazine
• Report
• Sitcom
• Soap, Soap Opera
• Sport: Sports show, live transmission
• Language Course
• Talkshow
• Open University
• TV Shopping (infomercial)
• Animal Documentary
• Road Safety Education Spot: The Seven Senses
• Election Studio
• Party Political Broadcast
• Adverts and Mainzelmänchen
• Weather Report
• Politics and Economics
• Science
• Science Show

Theatre Genres

• Greek Tragedy
• Popular Theatre (such as "Ohnesorg", Millowitsch, Chimgauer Popular Theatre)
• Dance Theatre (one piece is narrated)
• Ballet (classical figures, classical tutus)
• Modern Dance (expressive movements, jazz dance, jumps)
• Experimental Theatre / Expressionistic Theatre
• Brecht / Epic Theatre
• AgitProp / Revolutionary Theatre / Socialist Didactic Plays
• Problem Pieces, Milieu Pieces
• Theatre of the Absurd / Ionesco / Beckett
• Shakespeare Theatre
• Baroque Theatre (prominent costumes and empty phrases)
• Comedia del Arte
• Goldoni / Voltaire
• Peasant Farces
• Black Theatre
• Musical Theatre / Rock Opera
• Musical
• Operettas
• Classical Opera (with arias, recitative, and spoken dialogue)
• Wagner / Verdi Operas (worked out composition, no spoken text)
• Modern Opera (oblique to experimental music, atonal or minimal)
• Chinese Opera

Children

• Marionette Theatre
• Puppet Theatre
• Cartoon
• Little Clay Men
• Clown Theatre
• Magician
• Fairy Tales / Songs (e.g. Bird Wedding; put on by children)
• Punch and Judy
• Mouse TV

Music Styles

• Gregorian Chant
• Medieval Music
• Church Music / Organ and Choral
• Ballad singer / minstrel
• Drinking Songs / Student Songs
• Love Songs / Vulgar Songs
• Silent Film / Ragtime
• Opera (see Theatre)
• Art song / singer and piano (Schubert)
• 12 tone music / atonal music (just sing weirdly!)
• Minimal music
• Ambient (lots of music, not much singing)
• Italian Bell Canto (Pavarotti)
• Chinese Opera / Music
• Operettas
• Musical
• Jazz / Jazzbalade / Jazz Song (Standard)
• Dixieland / Louis Amstrong
• Latin Jazz / Bossa Nova
• Electrical Jazz / Rock Jazz
• Free Jazz / Archi Shepp
• Punk Jazz / very heavy drums, vocals as in Punk
• Salsa / Merengue
• African Pop / M. Makeba
• Reggae
• Country and Western
• Hill Billy
• Motown
• Soul
• Gospel
• Singer and Songwriter
• Songwriter
• Chanson / Canzoni
• Folk music (including non-European)
• Irish Folk
• Belly dance music
• Classical Chinese Music
• Indian Dance / Shaman Dance
• African music (drums, cantor and refrain)
• Overtone Singing
• Yodelling
• Gstanzl (Bavarian Couplé, only for the initiated)
• Cabaret Song
• Couple / satirical song
• Socialist Workers' Songs
• Popular Music (Music Stall)
• Pop Song
• Rock
• Hard Rock
• Death Metal
• Heavy Metal
• Punk
• New German Wave
• Techno / Electronic Music
• Rap
• Hip Hop
• A Capella / A Capella Instrumental
• Children's Song

Radio formats

• Radio Play
• Listener calls: "Greetings ..."
• Interview
• Morning Show
• News
• Traffic News
• Request Program

Miscellaneous

• Audiobook
• Picture book
• Dime novel
• User Manual (as "literary" genre)
• Powerpoint Presentation