I know everyone has a different definition for genre, but mine separates genres into the instruments involved, not necessarily into short forms or long forms. Your choices are:
Opera
Symphonic
Chamber music (solo instrument plus accompaniment, duets, trios, quartets, etc.)
Orchestral (anything played by orchestra besides symphonies)
Choral (any work that mainly employs a large ensemble of singers)
Vocal (one or more solo vocalists plus accompaniment)
Keyboard solo
Ballet
Concerto
Avant-Garde (John Cage, minimalism, electronic music, futurism, etc)
Band music (brass bands, wind bands, military bands, etc)
Film music
Here is my list:
1. Keyboard solo. As a pianist, I am most interested in piano works. My favorite works are everything by Chopin, everything by Liszt, all Beethoven sonatas, harpsichord works by Bach, Schubert sonatas/improptus, and various solo works by Ravel. It's the most versatile of instruments, and it has the deepest and most varied repertoire.
2. Symphonic. I like the sound of massed strings and big sounds more than the sound of individual strings, and the symphonic repertoire is huge.
3. Concerto. This is for the Rachmaninoff/Chopin/Tchaikovsky piano concertos mostly.. and Bach's harpsichord concertos get a nod as well.
4. Opera, almost solely for Richard Wagner.
5. Ballet, I dearly love a few choice ballets, mainly those of Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Adam, and Delius.
6. Orchestral, for the beautiful tone poems of the late romantics like R. Strauss and Ravel.
7. Chamber music. I have come to appreciate this genre a lot more recently because of its incredible variety and number of timbre possibilities, and for the great chamber works by Schubert, Beethoven, and Shostakovich.
8. Vocal music. I've discovered a few song cycles that are very nice, but I still need to exlore a lot more of this genre before I like it more.
9. Band music. I played in a brass band this past summer and it was fun.. the percussion really gets to shine here. It was kind of a shame that most of their music was made up of arrangements..
10. Choral music. I'll get into it someday.. more fun to sing in it than to listen, I think.
11. Film music. Most of it is too unsophisticated.
12. Avant-Garde. I don't like extremely intellectual music.
Opera
Symphonic
Chamber music (solo instrument plus accompaniment, duets, trios, quartets, etc.)
Orchestral (anything played by orchestra besides symphonies)
Choral (any work that mainly employs a large ensemble of singers)
Vocal (one or more solo vocalists plus accompaniment)
Keyboard solo
Ballet
Concerto
Avant-Garde (John Cage, minimalism, electronic music, futurism, etc)
Band music (brass bands, wind bands, military bands, etc)
Film music
Here is my list:
1. Keyboard solo. As a pianist, I am most interested in piano works. My favorite works are everything by Chopin, everything by Liszt, all Beethoven sonatas, harpsichord works by Bach, Schubert sonatas/improptus, and various solo works by Ravel. It's the most versatile of instruments, and it has the deepest and most varied repertoire.
2. Symphonic. I like the sound of massed strings and big sounds more than the sound of individual strings, and the symphonic repertoire is huge.
3. Concerto. This is for the Rachmaninoff/Chopin/Tchaikovsky piano concertos mostly.. and Bach's harpsichord concertos get a nod as well.
4. Opera, almost solely for Richard Wagner.
5. Ballet, I dearly love a few choice ballets, mainly those of Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Adam, and Delius.
6. Orchestral, for the beautiful tone poems of the late romantics like R. Strauss and Ravel.
7. Chamber music. I have come to appreciate this genre a lot more recently because of its incredible variety and number of timbre possibilities, and for the great chamber works by Schubert, Beethoven, and Shostakovich.
8. Vocal music. I've discovered a few song cycles that are very nice, but I still need to exlore a lot more of this genre before I like it more.
9. Band music. I played in a brass band this past summer and it was fun.. the percussion really gets to shine here. It was kind of a shame that most of their music was made up of arrangements..
10. Choral music. I'll get into it someday.. more fun to sing in it than to listen, I think.
11. Film music. Most of it is too unsophisticated.
12. Avant-Garde. I don't like extremely intellectual music.