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In music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
, a musical ensemble
Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble is a group of two or more musicians who perform instrumental or vocal music. In each musical style different norms have developed for the sizes and composition of different ensembles, and for the repertoire of songs or musical works that these ensembles perform....
 or band is a group of musician
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
s that works together to perform songs. The following articles concern types of musical bands:








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In music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
, a musical ensemble
Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble is a group of two or more musicians who perform instrumental or vocal music. In each musical style different norms have developed for the sizes and composition of different ensembles, and for the repertoire of songs or musical works that these ensembles perform....
 or band is a group of musician
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
s that works together to perform songs. The following articles concern types of musical bands:

  • Big band
    Big band

    A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with playing jazz music and which became popular during the swing from the early 1930s until the late 1940s....
  • Boy band
    Boy band

    A boy band, written in some countries boys band or boy's band, is a type of pop music band featuring several young male singers. The members are generally expected to perform as dancers as well, often executing highly choreographed sequences to their own music....
  • Christian band
    Christian music

    Christian music is music that has been written during the last two thousand years to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life and faith....
  • Church band
    Church band

    A Church Band was a kind of Band that provided music for church es, and were common before the mid-19th century when there was a widespread introduction of church organs in Anglican and other Protestant churches....
  • Concert band
    Concert band

    A concert band, also called wind band, symphonic band, symphonic winds, wind orchestra, wind symphony, or wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of several members of the woodwind instrument family, brass instrument family and percussion instrument family....
  • Cover band
    Cover band

    A cover band is a band that plays mostly or exclusively cover version. Other common terms are wedding band, party band and function band....
  • Dansband
    Dansband

    Dansband is a term in Swedish language which describes musical ensemble playing a kind of popular music, dansbandsmusik . Dansbandsmusik is often danced to in partner dance....
  • Fife and drum
  • Garage rock
    Garage rock

    Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 in music to 1967 in music. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name....
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  • Girl group
    Girl group

    A girl group is a popular music act featuring several young female singers who generally Harmony together.Girl groups emerged in the late 1950s as groups of young singers teamed up with behind-the-scenes songwriters and music producers to create hit singles, often featuring glossy production values and backing by top studio musicians....
  • Family band
    The Tuss

    The Tuss is an electronic music music group supposedly consisting of Cornwall musicians Brian Tregaskin, Karen Tregaskin, and their son Patrick Tregaskin....
  • Honk band
    Honk band

    A honk band is any street band that might also be called a radical or political or activism marching band, usually consisting of brass instrument , woodwind instrument , and percussion instrument as well as many other acoustic instruments, which perform at Progressivism political and community events ....
  • Jam band
    Jam band

    Jam bands are musical groups whose albums and live performances relate to a fan culture that originated with the 1960s group Grateful Dead and continued in the 1990s with Phish and similar bands....
  • Jazz band
    Jazz band

    A jazz band is a musical ensemble that plays jazz music usually without a conductor. Jazz bands usually consist of a rhythm section and a horn section....
  • Jug band
    Jug band

    File:Cannon'sJugStompers.jpgFile:DSCN2249.JPGA jug band is a musical band employing a jug player and a mix of traditional and home-made instruments....
  • Marching band
  • Military band
    Military band

    File:Band Trooping the Colour, 16th June 2007.jpgA military band is a group of personnel that perform musical duties for military functions, usually for the armed forces....
  • Orchestra
    Orchestra

    An orchestra is an Musical ensemble, usually fairly large with string, brass, woodwind sections, and possibly a percussion section as well. The term orchestra derives from the name for the area in front of an theatre of ancient Greece reserved for the Greek chorus....
  • Organ trio
    Organ trio

    An organ trio, in a jazz context, is a group of three jazz musicians, typically consisting of a Hammond organ player, a drummer, and either a jazz guitarist or a saxophone player....
  • Rock band
    Rock Band

    Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV, and distributed by Electronic Arts. It is the first title in the Rock Band....
  • Rock Supergroup
  • School band
    School band

    A school band is a group of student musicians who rehearse and perform instrumental music together. A concert band is usually under the direction of one or more conducting ....
  • Tribute act
  • Worship band