SONG.
Do I need to explain what a song? After all, everybody knows, and everyone has their favorite songs. From childhood to old age people, "the song of life is walking." The huge world of thoughts, feelings, and images entered in this very simple and accessible musical genre. This world is great for that reason alone the number of songs. If vocal music - it's about half of all the existing pieces of music, the song is the greatest place here. And not only in quantity but also the most common, widely known. There are many groups, genres, types of songs, constantly interacting with each other. Most clearly delineated two major groups: the song and folk song, created by composers. Between folk songs and composing a continuous relationship. In operas, symphonies, chamber music, composers often turned to folk song, or just passing her melodies, or using their characteristic individual elements. In turn, some of the songs by composers as would go into the folklore and live there sometimes dozens of options. Composing songs can be grouped according to their content of text: Song of political, revolutionary, lyrical, comic, and satirical. Common features of the musical language can be heard in the lyrical and humorous songs, examples of which everyone can easily lead among his favorite works. But the songs, related in content and character, may have a different fate. Some more singing in the village, others - in the city, some will enthusiastically sing the soldiers on the march, and others - tourists in the campaign. So, you can group them and on the basis of the environment in which they are most popular: the song peasant, worker, soldier, student, etc.