Genre List
Version 1 (von improwiki, 29.01.2014 16:53)
List of genres, styles and show formats
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