Matching Pairs Music GenresOnline version This activity helps develop vocabulary on music styles and genres. by Lucila Giammatteo 1 TRANCE 2 RAP 3 POP 4 BLUES 5 DISCO 6 REGGAE 7 JAZZ 8 CLASSICAL 9 COUNTRY 10 ROCK Songs are enjoyed by lots of different types of people because they have a good rhythm, a catchy melody, and are easy to remember and sing along to. A style of music that is generally loud and rhythmic, where the musicians often make the music up as they go along. A form of popular music originating in the rural southern US. It is a mixture of ballads and dance tunes played characteristically on fiddle, banjo, guitar, and pedal steel guitar.