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  "name": "European Music",
  "description": "Regional styles with roots in the European continent and surrounding islands.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/european-music/",
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      "name": "Alpenrock",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/alpenrock/",
      "description": "Mixes Hard Rock and Blues Rock with traditional Alpine Folk Music elements such as Yodeling and use of the accordion.",
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      "name": "Ancient Roman Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ancient-roman-music/",
      "description": "Music of ancient Roman civilization.",
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      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Anglican Chant",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/anglican-chant/",
      "description": "Simple, harmonized, English-language setting of the Christian liturgy, principally devised by the Anglican Church.",
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    {
      "name": "Ashkenazi Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ashkenazi-music/",
      "description": "Encompasses the various traditions and genres of the Ashkenazi Jews, an ethnoreligious group that was prominent and influential in Europe throughout most of the Middle Ages and the modern period.",
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      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Balkan Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/balkan-music/",
      "description": "Meta-genre covering all forms developed in the Balkan Peninsula.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Baroque Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/baroque-music/",
      "description": "Constant rhythmic flow, or a steady motion throughout, generally focusing on a single melodic idea and including some form of counterpoint.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Baroque Suite",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/baroque-suite/",
      "description": "Collection of varied dance pieces, usually in the same key, structured on the music of European courtly dances.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "British Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/british-music/",
      "description": "Music of Great Britain, including the music of the English, Welsh and Scottish people.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Caucasian Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/caucasian-music/",
      "description": "Music of the region of the Caucasus, a mountainous region bordered by Russia to the north and Turkey/Iran to the south, with the Black and Caspian seas to its sides.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Celtic Electronica",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/celtic-electronica/",
      "description": "Fusion of Celtic Folk Music with various types of Electronic Dance Music.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Celtic Metal",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/celtic-metal/",
      "description": "Features Celtic Folk Music elements.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Celtic New Age",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/celtic-new-age/",
      "description": "Incorporates influences and performing styles from Celtic Folk Music, emphasizing pastoral imagery and wistful themes.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Celtic Punk",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/celtic-punk/",
      "description": "Infuses the sounds of Celtic Folk Music into Punk Rock.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Celtic Rock",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/celtic-rock/",
      "description": "Incorporates influences from Celtic Folk Music and its regional variants.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Chanson",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/chanson/",
      "description": "French-language Singer-Songwriters for whom the quality of the text is essential and where the rhythm follows that of the text.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Classical Period",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/classical-period/",
      "description": "Refers to the phase in Western Classical Music history occurring from roughly 1750 to 1820, characterized by its emphasis on clarity, simplicity, and balance.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Country & Irish",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/country-and-irish/",
      "description": "Developed in Ireland; combines North American Country with Irish Folk Music influences, often in the form of traditional Irish songs that have been adapted into country numbers.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Crimean Tatar Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/crimean-tatar-music/",
      "description": "Music of the Crimean Tatar people, a Turkic ethnic group indigenous to the Crimean Peninsula, located in southern Ukraine.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Dechovka",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/dechovka/",
      "description": "Brass band genre popular in Czechia and Slovakia, characterized by lively brass instrumentation, infectious rhythms, and vibrant melodies.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Dutch Cabaret",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/dutch-cabaret/",
      "description": "Popular comedy form in the Netherlands which evolved out of traditional Cabaret in the 1890s.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "European Folk Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/european-folk-music/",
      "description": "Encompasses numerous folk traditions found in Europe.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Fanfare",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/fanfare/",
      "description": "Brass-led tradition originating in Western Europe, commonly performed during important public events, typically featuring a ceremonious, triumphant, or uplifting sound.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Finnish Tango",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/finnish-tango/",
      "description": "Melancholic style developed in Finland in the 1930s and 1940s, influenced by traditional minor-key Finnish Folk Music melodies and the rhythms of German marches.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "German Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/german-music/",
      "description": "Music of the German-speaking people, spanning predominately central Europe, primarily Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, among others.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Grand opéra",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/grand-opera/",
      "description": "French style characterized by its enlarged scope and sense of grandeur, with bigger orchestras and casts, and ornate sceneries and costumes.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Greek Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/greek-music/",
      "description": "Music of the Greek people.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Iberian Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/iberian-music/",
      "description": "Music of the Iberian peninsula.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Irish Showband",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/irish-showband/",
      "description": "Phenomenon lasting from the mid-1950s until the early 1980s, often performed a mixture of currently popular music and skits.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Italian Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/italian-music/",
      "description": "Music of the Italian people.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kabarett",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/kabarett/",
      "description": "Theatrical entertainment consisting of mixed elements of music, sketches, monologues, dialogues, lyric poetry and/or ballads.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kalmyk Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/kalmyk-music/",
      "description": "Music of the Kalmyks, a Mongol Buddhist ethnic group inhabiting the Republic of Kalmykia, a federal subject of the Russian Federation.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kleinkunst",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/kleinkunst/",
      "description": "Dutch-language genre from the Netherlands and Flanders with influences from Cabaret, protest songs, Chanson, and folk.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kyivan Chant",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/kyivan-chant/",
      "description": "Chant form inspired by Znamenny Chant that's characterized by simplified melodic and rhythmic structures.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Madrigal",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/madrigal/",
      "description": "Secular polyphonic music based around poetry and generally performed by unaccompanied vocal ensembles of two to eight persons.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Medieval Classical Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/medieval-classical-music/",
      "description": "Composed during the Medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mittelalter-Metal",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/mittelalter-metal/",
      "description": "Emerged as a metallic style in the mid-to-late 1990s from the German Neo-Medieval movement.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mittelalter-Rock",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/mittelalter-rock/",
      "description": "Emerged in the 1990s from the German Neo-Medieval movement, incorporating medieval instruments with Rock music.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mulatós",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/mulatos/",
      "description": "Upbeat, danceable Hungarian Pop that takes strong influence from Hungarian Folk Music and Romani Folk Music.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mélodie",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/melodie/",
      "description": "French form typically with a greater emphasis on emotional restraint, refinement, subtlety, and concision.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Nordic Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/nordic-music/",
      "description": "Music from the Nordic countries, including Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Nòva cançon",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/nova-cancon/",
      "description": "Arose in the Occitania region of southern France, sung in the Occitan language as a way to preserve their culture and resist forced usage of French.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Opéra-comique",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/opera-comique/",
      "description": "French style of Opera characterized by the use of some spoken dialogues to connect major arias and sung parts, as well as a more restrained approach to recitatives.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Polish Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/polish-music/",
      "description": "Music rooted in the traditions of the Poles.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Renaissance Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/renaissance-music/",
      "description": "Encompasses Western Classical Music from the 15th to 16th centuries.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Romanian Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/romanian-music/",
      "description": "Music of the Romanian people.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Russian Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/russian-music/",
      "description": "Music of the Russian people.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Schlager",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/schlager/",
      "description": "Light, sentimental, melodic pop music common mainly in northern and central Europe.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Singspiel",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/singspiel/",
      "description": "German form of Opera distinguished by the prominent usage of spoken dialogues mixed with lyrical or folklore arias/ballads.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Tragédie en musique",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/tragedie-en-musique/",
      "description": "French Opera genre developed by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Philippe Quinault in the second half of the 17th century, consisting of alterations made to the coeval Italian format to better fit the French language and please an audience more accustomed to the ballet de cour.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Trampská hudba",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/trampska-hudba/",
      "description": "Associated with the tramping lifestyle, typically mixing acoustic guitar driven Contemporary Folk with strong Country influences and vocal harmonies in peaceful, simple and relatively short songs.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Verismo",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/verismo/",
      "description": "Developed in Italy around the turn of the 20th century and favored melodramatic realism, a rejection of bel canto standards, and declamatory singing.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Waltz",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/waltz/",
      "description": "Typically in a 3/4 time signature and popular in the 18th century in central Europe, as it accompanied the ballroom dance of the same name.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "European Music"
    }
  ]
}