1. Types of music. It’s characteristics

2. Music is an art form that uses sound as medium in time and space
Music is an art form that uses sound as medium in time and space. The basic elements of music, rhythm, dynamics and sound properties are color and intensity. The very word music derives from the Greek word mousike, which is derived from the word mouse, and  people around the world know that as a Latin form of the word music.

3. Music and sound can make human voice or instrument which can cause emotional experience. Music reaches far into the past and during this time they develop different styles and genres of music, which is still listening. All styles and genres of music, one thing is common, and that is to make people happy. Today, music has increasingly spreading and people can’t live without music. 

4. The best-known types of music are:
Blues Music Classical Music Country Music Electronic Music  Jazz Music Latin Music  
Metal Music Pop Music Punk Music Rap Music Reggae Music R&B Music Rock Music

5. Blues Music Types Of Blues Music
There are many different types of blues music. Best known the Delta blues, Piedmont blues, Jump blues and Chicago blues styles.

6. Classical Music Types Of Classical Music
Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western music .There are different types of classical music; the most recognizable are symphony, opera, choral works, chamber music, Gregorian chant and the madrigal. Classical music regularly features as background music for movies, television programmes, advertisements and events. 

7. Country Music Types Of Country Music
Country music is a genre of American popular music that originated in Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from the southeastern genre of American folk music and Western music. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instruments such as banjos, electric and acoustic guitars, fiddles, and harmonicas.

8. Latin Music Types Of Latin Music
Latin music imported from Cuba and Mexico had brief periods of popularity during the 50s. The earliest popular Latin music in the United States came with rumba in the early 1930s. Today Latin music has become a term for music performed by Latinos regardless of whether it has a Latin element or not. Acts such as Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull are prominent on the pop charts.

9. Electronic Music Types Of Electronic Music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production, an electronic musician being a musician who composes and/or performs such music. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology.[1] Examples of electromechanical sound producing devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, and the electric guitar. Purely electronic sound production can be achieved using devices such as the Theremin, sound synthesizer, and computer.  Today electronic music includes many varieties and ranges from experimental art music to popular forms such as electronic dance music.

10. Jazz Music Types Of Jazz Music
Jazz is a type of African-American music that originated in the late 19th and early 20th century in the Southern United States as a combination of European harmony and forms with African musical. Jazz has also incorporated elements of American popular music.
The Chicago Style of jazz music evolved after Chicago then became the home of jazz music because of the prohibition in the south. Unemployed musicians moved to the Chicago area playing new sounds and searching for places to play the new, exciting style of jazz. With this style the musicians play popular songs with a more homophonic sound.

11. Metal Music Types of Metal Music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music[1] that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States.[2] With roots in blues rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are often associated with masculinity, aggression and machismo.[3]

12. The first heavy metal bands such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath attracted large audiences, though they were often derided by critics, a status common throughout the history of the genre. In the mid-1970s Judas Priest helped spur the genre's evolution by discarding much of its blues influence Motörhead introduced a punk rock sensibility and an increasing emphasis on speed. Bands in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal such as Iron Maiden and Saxon followed in a similar vein. Before the end of the decade, heavy metal fans became known as "metalheads" or "headbangers".

13. pop Music Types of pop Music
Although pop music is melting pot of styles, there is a types of pop music that claims to be pop music in its purest form. This music, usually called pure pop or power pop, typically consists of relatively brief (not over 3 1/2 minutes) songs played on the standard electric guitar, bass and drums with vocals that have a very strong catchy chorus, or hook. Art is not a concern. Audience pleasure in listening to the song is the primary goal.

14. Pop music has been the most listened music of this generation, as you find teenagers everywhere – bobbling their heads and singing along to the newest hits dominating the charts. However, creating pop music isn’t as easy as it seems.  Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer- songwriter, actor, and businessman. Called the King of Pop, his contributions to music, dance, and fashion, along with his publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades.

15. Punk Music Types Of Punk Music
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. Punk bands created fast, hard-edged music, typically with short songs, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic; many bands self-produced recordings and distributed them through informal channels.

16. The first wave of punk rock aimed to be aggressively modern, distancing itself from the bombast and sentimentality of early 1970s rock.[3]According to Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone, "In its initial form, a lot of [1960s] stuff was innovative and exciting. Unfortunately, what happens is that people who could not hold a candle to the likes of Hendrix started noodling away. Soon you had endless solos that went nowhere. By 1973, I knew that what was needed was some pure, stripped down, no bullshit rock 'n' roll."[4] John Holmstrom, founding editor of Punk magazine, recalls feeling "punk rock had to come along because the rock scene had become so tame that [acts] like Billy Joel andSimon and Garfunkel were being called rock and roll, when to me and other fans, rock and roll meant this wild and rebellious music."[5] In critic Robert Christgau's description, "It was also a subculture that scornfully rejected the political idealism and Californian flower-power silliness of hippie myth.

17. Rap Music Types Of Rap Music
Rap like every other musis style has many different types. Every type talks about somenhing else, politics, hard life or something completely different.

18. Eminem is an American rapper, is one of the world's best-selling music artists and is the best-selling artist of the 2000s. He has been listed and ranked as one of the greatest artists of all time by many magazines.  Eminem has sold more than 80 million albums and over 120 million singles worldwide.

19. Reggae Music Types Of Reggae Music
There are different types of reggae. These are often a clash between two music genres that make up a sub-genre.
Ragga Metal is one. Ragga Metal is a clash between reggae and metal. We also have the reggae-fusion, hip-hop – rap kinda reggae which is reggae with a more rap singing instead of the ”typical” reggae singing style. Rap with a reggae kinda beat.

20. Bob Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international fame and acclaim. Starting out in 1963 with the group the Wailers, he forged a distinctive songwriting and vocal style that would later resonate with audiences worldwide. The Wailers would go on to release some of the earliest reggae records with producer Lee Scratch Perry.[3] After the Wailers disbanded in 1974,[4] Marley pursued a solo career which culminated in the release of the album Exodus in 1977 which established his worldwide reputation.[5] He was a committed Rastafari who infused his music with a profound sense of spirituality.

21. R&B Music Types Of R&B Music
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B or RnB, is a genre of popular African-American music that originated in the 1940s.[1]The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular.

22. Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988), known by her stage name Rihanna  is a Barbadian recording artist, actress, and fashion designer.

23. Rock Music Types Of Rock Music
What are different types of rock music?
Rock n Roll – The foundations of rock music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a mixing together of various black musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country and western. In 1951,Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, and is credited with first using the phrase “rock and roll” to describe the music.