What are the violin music types?

Question

Guitar have classic and flamenco
what about violin??

Answer 1

Well, classical is obvious. We could talk about variations within classical, but that's getting a bit complex for this kind of forum.

Country.
Eck Robertson
http://www.violinstudent.com/history/november/november20.html

Bluegrass.
http://www.fiddlingaround.co.uk/bluegrass/bluegrassframe.html
Bill Monroe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Monroe
Vasser Clements
http://www.vassarclements.com/
(When you go there be sure to click on Listen to the Mockingbird)

Mainstream...easy listening and the like.
Annunzio Paolo Mantovani
http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Mantovani:1927001588:page=biography

Latin
Xavier Cugat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Cugat

Jazz.
Look at the music of Regina Carter
http://www.violinstudent.com/history/august/august6.html
Stephane Grapelli
http://www.violinstudent.com/history/december/december1
Jean-Luc Ponty
http://www.violinstudent.com/history/september/september29.html
Stuff Smith
http://www.violinstudent.com/history/september/september25.html

Rock.
Mark Wood
http://www.violinstudent.com/biographies/mark1

Cajun.
Hadley J. Castille
http://www.hadleyjcastille.com/

Irish / Celtic
Liz Carroll
http://www.lizcarroll.com/

Mariachi.
Laura Sobrino
http://violinstudent.com/tips/may/may5

And the list goes on and on.

Hope this gets you started in the right direction!

Art
It Doesn't Matter How You Learned
All That Counts is That You Play

Answer 2

Violin has been adapted to nearly every music type. Used in classical, folk and even jazz.