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Middle of the road (music)

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Middle of the road (MOR) loosely describes any type of music that falls between popular music and art music, and includes the work of serious composers who write in a lighter style than normal. [1]

44 relations: Adult contemporary music, Adult standards, Album-oriented rock, Art music, Ballad, Beautiful music, Canada, CFRB, CKNW, Don Williams, Duran Duran, Easy listening, Full service (radio format), Harmony, Home shopping, Kenny Rogers, KIRO (AM), KOMO (AM), KSPN (AM), Melody, MOR Music TV, Music of Your Life, Music video, Orchestra, Pejorative, Pitchfork (website), Popular music, Radio format, Rio (Duran Duran album), Rock and roll, Show tune, Smooth jazz, Soft rock, The New Yorker, Traditional pop music, Train (band), Unforgettable Favorites, United States, WBBR, WCCO (AM), Westlife, WJR, WLW, WTIC (AM).

Adult contemporary music

Adult contemporary music (AC) is a North American term used to describe a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, rhythm and blues, quiet storm, and rock influence.

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Adult standards

Adult standards is a North American radio format heard primarily on AM or class A FM stations.

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Album-oriented rock

Album-oriented rock (abbreviated AOR) is an American FM radio format focusing on album tracks by rock artists.

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Art music

Art music (alternately called classical music, cultivated music, serious music, and canonic music) is music that implies advanced structural and theoretical considerationsJacques Siron, "Musique Savante (Serious music)", Dictionnaire des mots de la musique (Paris: Outre Mesure): 242.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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Beautiful music

Beautiful music (sometimes abbreviated as BM, B/EZ or BM/EZ for "beautiful music/easy listening") is a mostly instrumental music format that was prominent in American radio from the late 1950s through the 1980s.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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CFRB

CFRB is an AM radio clear-channel station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, broadcasting a news/talk at 1010 kHz, with a shortwave radio simulcast on CFRX at 6.07 MHz on the 49m band.

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CKNW

CKNW owned by Corus Entertainment, is the second highest-rated talk radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Don Williams

Donald Ray Williams (May 27, 1939 – September 8, 2017) was an American country singer, songwriter, and 2010 inductee to the Country Music Hall of Fame.

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Duran Duran

Duran Duran are an English new wave and synthpop band formed in Birmingham in 1978.

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Easy listening

Easy listening (sometimes known as mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s.

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Full service (radio format)

The full service radio format in the United States consists of a wide range of programming.

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Harmony

In music, harmony considers the process by which the composition of individual sounds, or superpositions of sounds, is analysed by hearing.

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Home shopping

Home shopping is the electronic retailing and home shopping channels industry, which includes such billion dollar television-based and e-commerce companies as Shop LC, HSN, TJC, QVC, eBay, ShopHQ, Buy.com and Amazon.com, as well as traditional mail order and brick and mortar retailers as Hammacher Schlemmer and Sears, Roebuck and Co. Home shopping allows consumers to shop for goods from the privacy of their own home, as opposed to traditional shopping, which requires one to visit brick and mortar stores and shopping malls.

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Kenny Rogers

Kenneth Ray Rogers (born August 21, 1938) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and entrepreneur.

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KIRO (AM)

KIRO (710 AM) is a radio station based in Seattle, Washington on the shores of Lake Union with 2 towers on Maury Island, broadcasting on 710 kHz in the AM radio spectrum.

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KOMO (AM)

KOMO (1000 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Seattle, Washington and serving the Seattle metropolitan area.

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KSPN (AM)

KSPN (710 AM) is a sports radio station formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, serving the Greater Los Angeles Area.

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Melody

A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.

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MOR Music TV

MOR Music TV is a defunct channel that ran music videos 24 hours a day.

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Music of Your Life

Music of Your Life is a syndicated music radio network delivered over the Internet to AM/FM and HD radio stations across the United States using the Barix distribution system.

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Music video

A music video is a short film that integrates a song with imagery, and is produced for promotional or artistic purposes.

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Orchestra

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which mixes instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as violin, viola, cello and double bass, as well as brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments, each grouped in sections.

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Pejorative

A pejorative (also called a derogatory term, a slur, a term of abuse, or a term of disparagement) is a word or grammatical form expressing a negative connotation or a low opinion of someone or something, showing a lack of respect for someone or something.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by Condé Nast.

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Popular music

Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

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Radio format

A radio format or programming format (not to be confused with broadcast programming) describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station.

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Rio (Duran Duran album)

Rio is the second studio album by English new wave/synthpop band Duran Duran, originally released worldwide on 10 May 1982.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Show tune

A show tune is a popular song originally written as part of the score of a “show” (or stage musical), especially if the piece in question has become a standard, more or less detached in most people's minds from the original context.

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Smooth jazz

Smooth jazz is music that evolved from a blend of jazz fusion and easy listening pop music, featuring a polished pop feel with little to no jazz improvisation.

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Soft rock

Soft rock (or lite rock) is a subgenre of pop rock that largely features acoustic guitars and slow-to-mid tempos.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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Traditional pop music

Traditional pop (also classic pop or pop standards) is music that was recorded or performed after the Big Band era and before the advent of rock music.

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Train (band)

Train is an American rock band from San Francisco, formed in 1993.

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Unforgettable Favorites

Unforgettable Favorites (also known as Memories) was a satellite driven format distributed by ABC Radio Networks (through The Walt Disney Company).

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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WBBR

WBBR (1130 AM) is a Class A clear-channel radio station licensed to New York City.

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WCCO (AM)

WCCO (830 kHz) is a Class A clear-channel radio station located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States and owned by Entercom.

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Westlife

Westlife were an Irish pop vocal group, formed in Dublin in 1998 and disbanded in 2012.

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WJR

WJR (760 AM) is a radio station in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

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WLW

WLW (700 AM), branded Newsradio 700 WLW, is a commercial news/talk radio station serving Greater Cincinnati.

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WTIC (AM)

WTIC (1080 AM) is a 50,000-watt radio station operating from Hartford, Connecticut, broadcasting news and talk radio.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_of_the_road_(music)

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