Joanna is very passionate about offering engaging music classes for children and their parents, and set up Musical Tree to do just that. Her mission is to make adults aware that babies and young children are extremely sensitive to music, and that we can really make a difference by singing, dancing and actively using music with children. It’s lovely to hear how enthused she is about encouraging children’s musical aptitude during the early years, and she stresses what an amazing resource music is to support children’s development. You might also see it referred to as a rhythm tree or a note pyramid, but these are all the same thing.

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Musicmap is a first-phase experiment to achieve near perfect overview of all popular music genres. This process is never-ending, always incomplete, and requires further input from the international community. The current version (1.0) provides a starting platform that should already cover a great deal of the following main goals: The bottom-up method starts from the determined amount of music genres and places them in a two-dimensional space. Their coordinates are based on the genre-defining characteristics and thus similar genres are located close to each other. Once again, parametrically based programming to create this chart is nigh impossible as the characteristics (parameters) are too broad, not entirely measurable, and even variable in importance (weight). The benefit from this method is that super-genres will eventually emerge as amorphous zones, overlapping and connecting other super-genres at various points. This is a more realistic visualization of the musical genre network, though still limited by two-dimensional constraints. DE LA CALLE, Eduardo, Beatz – Convergences and Contradictions of Electronic Music, Barcelona, 2014.MOORE, Allan, The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002. Two minims are equal to one semibreve, which is why they’re called half notes, as they’re half of a whole note. LENA, Jennifer C., PETERSON, Richard A., Classification as Culture: Types and Trajectories of Music Genres, in: American Sociological Review, vol.73/nr.5, pp.697-718, 2008. But you could use any note to represent one beat. For time signatures with a number two as their bottom number, then a minim (half note) would represent one beat.

Musical note tree in Mammoth Music Musical note tree in Mammoth Music

FORMAN, Murray, The ‘Hood Comes First – Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, 2002. ZUBERI, Nabeel, MC Culture in the UK, in: Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music, vol. 5 (nr 2), 2013.McGOWAN, Chris, PESSANHA, Ricardo, The Brazilian Sound – Samba, Bossa Nova, and the Popular Music of Brazil, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1998. MOORE, Thurston, COLEY, Byron, No Wave – Post Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980, Abrams Image, New York, 2008. For each genre, nine to twelve prime examples of songs are listed. Whenever the genre name lists two or more distinct genres, the examples will be divided among these genres. These examples are not always the most well-known songs of their respective artists or the first within the genre, but rather fitting references for the genre characteristics. Although it is perfectly possible to place the same artist in two different genres, this never occurs on musicmap to allow a greater diversity of artist examples. Songs are deliberately chosen instead of albums or artists, as these rarely can be fitted into one genre category. Promoting rich and interesting music shouldn’t compromise the fun and creative process of learning; QUINN, Steven, Rumble in the Jungle: the Invisible History of Drum ‘n’ Bass, in: Transformations, n°3, 2002.

Musicmap | The Genealogy and History of Popular Music Genres

The music note tree is a great visual way to understand the relationship between all the different types of music notes. Getting to grips with it will help you when learning about note values and time signatures. Or, for time signatures with a number eight as their bottom number, a dotted crotchet would represent one beat. KINGSBURY, Paul, NASH, Alanna (ed.), Country Music – The Complete Visual History, Dorling Kindersley, London, 2006. HAUBNER, Annette, and SANDNER, Wolfgang, 100 Years of Jazz – The Complete Pictorial History, MUZE Monde, Amsterdam, 1994.STEENSMA, Frans (ed.), Lavrijsen, Annette (ed.), All That Jazz – Het Jazz-Soul-Urban-World-Blues-Singer/Songwriter Boek, Uitgeverij Carrera, Amsterdam, 2009. DUNN, Sam (dir.), Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, Seville Pictures, 2005 (DVD). Ibidem: Metal Family Tree, 2005.

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This overview can then be used in connection with databases (playlists) in the form of mobile apps, car apps, hi-fi media stations, and other multimedia to find and explore music. Implementation of this should be used with extreme caution as genre categorization of artists and albums is a gross oversimplification of the truth, and a diminishing of artistic expression. Musicmap is meant for exploring and discovering hard-to-find music by providing basic cornerstones (genres) as orientation points in an otherwise vast and incomprehensible musical universe. One must look at the collection of all popular music as a vast ocean in which drowning is easily possible without the rescue of a safety net: a music genre that provides a way of orientation. Where am I in the world of music and where do I want to go? REYNOLDS, Simon, Generation Ecstacy – into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, Routledge, New York, 1999.

McLEOD, Kembrew, Genres, Subgenres, Sub-subgenres and More: Musical and Social Differentiation Within Electronic/Dance Music Communities, in: Journal of Popular Music Studies, 13, pp. 59-75, 2001. PACHET, Francois, CAZALY, Daniel, A Taxonomy of Musical Genres, at: Content-Based Multimedia Information Access Conference, Paris, 2000. top-down method and rigid structure (left) versus bottom-up method and amorphous structure (right)]