Genre is largely derived from musical period, the instruments used and techniques used to play them. Genre is only a guide to styles of music. This means playlists constructed from a genre can vary quite a bit. The key disadvantage is that music can vary within a genre, so the coarser grained the genre the more variabilty exists within the genre. So, in general, making for a more organized music library.
Fewer genres to navigate when you are looking for music to play.We could call this the fundamental music genre list because the genres are the fundamental, elemental building blocks of musical genre, from which other, finer grained genres come.Īdopting the fundamental music genre classification, or any coarse grained classification, has a number of advantages: The genres are likely to be general, like the 'rock' or 'pop' examples I gave earlier. What's a coarse grained classification? It means there are few genres, probably fewer than ten, with a lot of music assigned to each genre.
Having a coarse grained genre classification for your MP3s can have advantages. How are your digital music genres organized? Are they general musical styles, like 'rock' or 'pop' or are they very specific, like 'ambient techno' or 'bubblegum pop'?
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