⊕This is a part of my mostly complete, probably unnecessarily complex, system for classifying and filing music in my ever-growing collection.

Music Groupings

The musicologists divisions of stuff. The tripartite divisionIn general, there are three main divisions of music according to musicologists; Art Music, Folk Music, and Popular Music. Specifically, Art Music is music that is transmitted primarily by vision - the written score, Folk Music is music that is transmitted primarily orally - you are taught it by another person, and Popular Music is transmitted primarily by recording and meant solely for consumption whereas the previous two categories assume performance as at least an equal part of appreciation of it , plus the three major types of music that are not experienced solely as music, but as adjuncts to other social events.The other three categories of music are less widely accepted as “proper” categories, but they are very useful to my particular scheme Values can be one of:

• Art - Music that is transmitted primarily in written form. refer to music of different cultural origins and traditions. Such traditions often date to a period regarded as the “golden age” of music for a particular culture.
• Folk - Music that is transmitted primarily in oral/aural form. includes traditional folk music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th-century folk revival. folk music is just whatever music is local to that culture, and not used for commercial purposes. Some types of folk music may be called world music.
• Pop - Music that is transmitted primarily in recorded form. typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training

or one of the three additional (minor) groupings for other types of music not intended to be enjoyed in and of themselves:

• Incidental - Music written for the score of a play, musicals, or similar: Filmi, incidental music, video game music, music hall songs and showtunes
• Religious - Music written for a specific religious purpose, as opposed to music that would fit into another category if it were not for the (more or less) religious themes of the lyrics.
• Occasional - Military music, marches, national anthems and related compositions