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2-step garage
2 tone
4-beat
4x4 Garage - UK garage also known as Bassline
8-bit
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A
Aa-Ak - Al-An - Ap-Ax
A cappella - any singing performed without instrumental backing
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Aa-Ak
Acid House - came about in the mid to late 1980s, originally in Detroit and Chicago, came through Ibiza to Britain.
Acid Jazz - a combination of jazz,funk,and hip hop
Acid Rock - a form of psychedelic rock, characterized with long instrumental solos, few (if any) lyrics and musical improvisation
Acoustic Music - a music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means.
Adult contemporary music is a broad style of popular music that ranges from lush 1960s vocal music to predominantly ballad-heavy music with varying degrees of rock influence.
Afrobeat - a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, and funk, fused with percussion and vocal styles, popularized in Africa in the 1970s.
Afropop - umbrella genre term for African popular music
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Al-An
Aleatoric music - music the composition of which is partially left to chance
Alternative country - (also known as alt-country or no depression) reaction against the 1990s highly-polished Nashville sound
Alternative dance - music combining elements of dance-pop (or other forms of electronic house or techno) and alternative rock genres such as indie rock.
Alternative hip hop - opposite of gangster rap, usually includes metaphorical aware lyrics (also known as alternative rap or Bohemian hip hop)
Alternative metal - catch-all term for heavy metal which uses techniques less conventional in heavy metal
Alternative rock - broad movement born in the 1980s generally relegated to the underground music scene and operating outside of the mainstream
Ambient music - music that can either be listened to intently, or be played in the background and easily be ignored. oftentimes used for relaxation and meditation.
Americana- style similar to folk music, but with elements of newer styles such as rock and rhythm and blues
Anime music - closely tied to J-pop but often accompanied by soundtrack albums
Anti-folk - sounds raw or experimental; it also generally mocks the seriousness and pretension of the established mainstream music scene in addition to mocking itself.
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Ap-Ax
Apala
Arabesque - A versatile collection of music fusing eastern folk music, Arab classical music and various other genres
Arabic pop - a subgenre of Arabic music fusing pop elements
Argentine rock- is composed or made by Argentine bands or artists, in the Spanish language.
Ars antiqua - music of Europe of the late Middle Ages between approximately 1170 and 1310
Ars nova - music of the Late Middle Ages, centered in France, which encompassed the period roughly from 1310 to 1314
Art rock - rock music that tends to have "experimental or avant-garde influences" and emphasizes "novel sonic texture.
Ashiq - Armenian bards who sing and accompany themselves on a saz (a kind of lute)
Australian country music (see also Country music)
Australian pub rock
Australian hip hop
Avant-garde jazz - sounds very similar to free jazz, but differs in that, despite its distinct departure from traditional harmony, it has a predetermined structure over which improvisation may take place.
Avant-garde metal - a subgenre of heavy metal music characterised by the use of innovative, avant-garde elements, large-scale experimentation, and the use of non-standard sounds, instruments, and song structures.
Avant-garde music - used at different times to mean different kinds of music (usually art music) considered ahead of their time and containing new, unusual, or experimental ideas or elements or fusing different genres.
Art punk
Axé - pop music from Brazil
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B
Bac-Bal - Bam-Bay - Be-Bh - Bi-Bl - Br-Bu
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Bac-Bal
Bachata - originated in the countryside and the rural neighborhoods of the Dominican Republic. Its subjects are often romantic; especially prevalent are tales of heartbreak and sadness.
Baggy
Baião - a Northeast Brazilian rhythmic formula that became the basis of a wide range of music.
Bakersfield sound - gritty, hard-edged reaction against 1950s pop country (Nashville sound)
Bakshy - Turkmen folk music made by travelling musicians also called bakshy
Baila - Sri Lankan dance music derived from African slaves held by the Portuguese
Baile Funk - Brazilian dance music literally means "ball", as in "dance party", and "funk"
Baisha xiyue - a song and dance suite from the Naxi of Lijiang, China
Bajourou - Malian (Mali) pop music usually played at weddings and social gatherings.
Bakou - trilling vocals that accompany Wolof wrestling
Bal-musette - a style of French music and dance which arose in 1880s Paris especially the 5th, 11th, and 12th districts.
Balakadri - a traditional quadrille music that was performed for balls on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.
Balinese Gamelan - A form of Gamelan native to Bali
Ballad - generic term for usually slow, romantic, despairing and catastrophic songs
Ballata - an Italian poetic and musical form, which was in use from the late 13th to the 15th century.
Ballet (music)
Baltimore Club
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Bam-Bay
Bamboo band - originally from the Solomon Islands, music played by hitting bamboo tubes with sandals
Bambuco - the "unofficial music of Colombia". Folk music accompanied by a stylized group dance in either a 6/8 or 3/4 meter.
Banda - Mexican brass norteño pop music invented in the 1960s
Bangsawan - a type of traditional Malay opera. It was known to have developed from a sort of Indian theatre performance during the 19th century by visiting Indian travellers.
Bantowbol
Barbershop music - a style of a cappella, or unaccompanied vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a predominantly homophonic texture
Barndance
Baroque music - 17th-18th century European classical music
Bass music (Miami bass, Booty bass) - electro influenced form of hip hop dance music arising in Miami, Florida
Batá-rumba - a form of Rumba music popular mainly in Cuba
Batcave (club) - original gothic rock music.
Batucada - a substyle of samba and refers to an African influenced Brazilian percussive style, usually performed by an ensemble.
Batuco
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Be-Bh
Beach music - a regional genre which developed from various musical styles of the forties, fifties and sixties. These styles ranged from big band swing instrumentals to the more raucous sounds of blues/jump blues, jazz, doo-wop, boogie, rhythm and blues, reggae, rockabilly and old-time rock and roll.
Beat- a fusion of rock and roll, doo wop, skiffle, R&B and soul. Beat groups characteristically had simple guitar-dominated line-ups, with vocal harmonies and catchy tunes.
Beatboxing - Music performed by producing percussive and melodic sounds with the mouth alone, often mimicking instruments, recorded samples and other sounds not typically associated with vocalization.
Bebop - 1940s jazz style with complex improvisation and a fast tempo
Beiguan - Taiwanese instrumental music
Bel canto - Italian vocal style which arose in the late 16th century and which ended in the mid-19th century
Bend-skin - a kind of urban Cameroonian popular music.
Benga - a genre of Kenyan popular music
Berlin School of electronic music - a style of electronic music characterized by atmospheric sounds and the use of sequencers.
Bhajan - a Hindu religious song
Bhangra - (BHUNG-ghra)- A genre from India. It originated in Punjab as a form of music and dance to celebrate a successful harvest.
Bhangra-wine
Bhangragga
Bhangramuffin
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Bi-Bl
Big band music - large orchestras which play a form of swing music
Big Beat - 1990s electronic music based on breakbeat with other influences
Biguine - Guadeloupean folk music
Blackened death metal - a fusion between death and black metal
Black metal - highly distorted and swift form of heavy metal
Bluegrass - American country music mixed with Irish and Scottish influences
Blue-eyed soul - rhythm and blues or soul music performed by white artists.
Blues - African-American music from the Mississippi Delta area
Blues ballad - the sound of the blues using a blues scale and blues style chord progressions with a bridge using a different bluesy chord progression)
Blues-rock - a hybrid musical genre combining bluesy improvisations over the 12-bar blues and extended boogie jams with rock and roll styles.
Biomusic - a form of experimental music which deals with sounds created or performed by living things.
Bitpop - electronic music, where at least part of the music is made using old 8-bit computers, game consoles and little toy instruments. Popular choices are the Commodore 64, Game Boy, Atari 2600 and Nintendo Entertainment System.
Bihu-a popular folk music of Assam,India
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Br-Bu
Brass band - a musical group generally consisting entirely of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.
Brazilian funk
Brazilian jazz - bossa nova and samba mixed with American jazz
Breakbeat - a collection of sub-genres of electronic music, usually characterized by the use of a non-straightened 4/4 drum pattern (as opposed to the steady beat of house or trance). These rhythms may be characterised by their intensive use of syncopation and polyrhythms.
Breakbeat hardcore - a derivative of acid house that combines 4-to-the-floor rhythms with breakbeats, and is associated with UK Rave scene.
Breakcore - an electronic music style that brings together elements of industrial, jungle, hardcore techno and IDM into a breakbeat-oriented sound that encourages speed, complexity, impact and maximum sonic density. It adheres to a loose set of stylistic rules.
Breton Music - traditional music of Brittany, France, that is played today yet, with pipes, drums and bombard. It's also known for its original and very ancient songs called "gwerz", or "kan ha diskan".
Brill Building Pop - named after New York's Brill Building at 1619 Broadway
Britfunk
Britpop
British blues
British Invasion - rock and roll, beat and pop performers from the United Kingdom who became popular in the United States from 1964 to 1966.
Broken beat - an electronic music genre which can be characterized by syncopated rhythm typically in 4/4 metre, with staggered or punctuated snare beats and/or hand claps.
Brown-eyed soul - a subgenre of soul music or rhythm and blues created in the United States mainly by Latinos in Southern California during the 1960s, continuing through to the early 1980s.
Brukdown - rural Belizean Kriol music
Brutal Death Metal - extreme form of Death Metal
Bubblegum dance
Bubblegum pop - sometimes synonymous with pop music, especially that performed by teen idols; can also refer to specific styles of South African or Japanese pop
Bikutsi
Bulerías
Bumba-meu-boi
Bunraku - Japanese style originated from a kind of puppet–theater.
Burger-highlife
Burgundian School...
Byzantine Chant...
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C
Ca - Cc-Ce - Ch - Ci-Cl - Co - Cr-Cu
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Cad-Cam
Ca din tulnic
Ca trù - (hat a dao) Vietnamese folk music
Cabaret
Cadence
Cadence-lypso - guitar-dominated Cadence music combined with calypso horns
Cadence rampa
Café-aman
Cai luong - Vietnamese opera
Cajun music
Cakewalk
Calenda - Trinidadian drum dance
Calgia - traditional urban ensemble music from Macedonia
Calipso - Venezuelan calypso music
Calypso - Trinidadian folk, and later pop, genre
Calypso-style baila - Sri Lankan baila mixed with calypso influences
Campursari - Indonesian modern folk music, a fusion of dangdut, langgam, and pop music
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Can-Car
Candombe
Canon
Cantata
Cante chico
Cante jondo
Canterbury Scene
Cantiñas
Cantiga - Portuguese ballad form
Canto livre - Portuguese modernized fado
Canto nuevo - Bolivian pop-folk music which evolved out of Chilean nueva cancion
Cantopop - western-style pop music from Hong Kong
Canzone napoletana - urban songs from Naples
Capoeira music
Caracoles
Cardas
Carimbó - dance music of Belém, Brazil
Cariso
Carnatic music - South Indian classical music
Carol
Cartageneras
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Cas-Cav
Cavacha
Caveman - The remixing/re-formation of songs using guttural noises and grunts, instead of the mainstream accepted lyrics of the current era.
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Cc-Ce
CCM (Contemporary Christian Music)
Celempungan
Cello rock
Celtic
Celtic fusion
Celtic metal
Celtic punk
Celtic reggae
Celtic rock
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Cha
Cha-cha-cha
Chakacha
Chamamé - Argentinian folk music
Chamber jazz
Chamber pop
Chamber music
Champeta - Colombian musical form derived from African communities in Cartagena
Chalga
Changuí
Chanson
Chant
Charanga
Charanga-vallenata - 1980s mixture of salsa, charanga and vallenato
Charikawi
Chastushki - humorous Russian folk songs
Chau van - Vietnamese trance music
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Che-Chi
Chemical breaks
Chèo
Chicago blues
Chicago house
Chicago jazz (Dixieland jazz)
Chicago soul
Chicha - a Peruvian fusion of rock and roll, cumbia and huayno
Chicken scratch
Chillout
Chillwave
Chimurenga (mbira)
Chinese music
Chinese rock - rock and roll from China / Taiwan, often with protest lyrics
Chip music
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Cho-Chr
Chongak - Korean aristocratic chamber music
Chouval bwa
Chowtal
Cho-kantrum - the most traditional form of Cambodian kantrum
Chopera - Church Opera
Chorinho
Choro - Brazilian folk music
Christian alternative
Christian black metal (known as Unblack metal)
Christmas carol
See also: List of Christmas carols
Christmas music
Christian electronic music
Christian Hardcore
Christian hip hop
Christian Industrial
Christian metal
Christian music
Christian punk
Christian rock
Christian ska
Chylandyk - type of xoomii which sounds like the chirping of crickets
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Chu
Chumba
Chut-kai-pang
Chutney - popular Indo-Caribbean music
Chutney-soca - Chutney mixed with calypso and other influences
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Ci-Cl
Cigányzene
Cinematic
Classic country
Classic female blues - early popular form of blues
Classic rock
Classical music
Classical music era (~1730-1820), for what's popularly known as "classical music", see European classical music or List of musical movements
Clicks n Cuts
Close harmony
Club music
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Coc-Cor
Coimbra fado - a form of refined fado from Coimbra, Portugal
Coladeira
Combined Rhythm - music of the Dutch Antilles
Comedy rap
Comedy rock
Comic opera
Comparsa
Compas direct
Concert overture
Concerto
Concerto grosso
Conjunto
Contemporary Christian Music (CCM)
Contemporary R&B
Contradanza
Cool jazz
Corrido - storytelling ballads from Mexico
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Cou-Cow
Country blues
Country Gospel a.k.a. Christian Country
Country music
Country-rap
Country rock
Countrypolitan
Country pop
Coupé-Décalé
Cowpunk
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Cr-Cu
Cretan music
Crossover music
Crossover thrash
Crunk - American music
Crunk&B
Crunkcore
Crust punk
Csárdás
Cuarteto - Argentinian folk music
Cuddlecore
Cueca
Cumbia - popular dance music, originally Colombian but now popular across Latin America, especially Mexico
Cumbia villera - Argentinian type of cumbia which contains marginal lyrics
Cybergrind
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D
Da - De-Dh - Di-Dr - Du-Dz
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Da
Dabka (Dabke) - Palestinian dance music for weddings
Dadra
Daina (Latvia) - Latvian sung poetry
Daina (Lithuania) - Lithuanian traditional music
Dance music - any rhythmic music intended for dancing
Dance-pop - contemporary form of dance music with pop music structures
Dance-punk - fusion of punk rock, funk, disco, and electro music (also known as disco-punk, punk-funk, and indie-dance)
Dance-rock
Dancehall
Dangdut - popular Indonesian dance music with influences from Arab and Indian music
Danger music
Dansband
Danza
Danzón
Dark ambient
Dark cabaret
Darkcore (hardcore techno)
Darkcore (drum & bass)
Dark pop
Darkstep
Darkwave
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De-Dh
De dragoste
Deathcore - a fusion between death metal and metalcore
Deathgrind - a fusion between death metal and grindcore
Death industrial
Death metal
Death/Doom - a fusion between death metal and doom metal
Death rock
Décima
Degung
Delta blues
Deep house
Deep soul
Dementia - relating to the style of music popularized by the Dr. Demento Show
Desi - Indian folk music
Detroit blues
Detroit techno
Deuda - Deuda is one type of music having variety of genre including ThadiBhakha, Raheri and other, presented in western region of Nepal.
Dhamar - a type of highly-oranemented dhrupad
Dhrupad - Hindustani vocal music performed by men singing in medieval Hindi
Dhun
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Di-Dr
Digital hardcore
Disney
Disney pop
Dirge
Dirty rap
Dirty South (music) (also known as Southern rap)
Dirty Dutch
Disco
Disco house
Disco polo - Polish nightclub dance music, played in '90s.
Diva house
Dixieland jazz (Chicago jazz)
Djent
Doina
Dondang sayang - slow folk music that mixes Malaysian forms with Portuguese, India, Chinese and Arabic music
Donegal fiddle tradition
Dongjing - Chinese Naxi form of folk music, related to silk and bamboo music from Chinca
Doo wop
Doom metal
Doomcore
Downtempo
Drag
Dream pop
Drone doom (Also known as Drone metal)
Drone music
Dronology
Drum and bass (DNB)
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Du-Dz
Dub
Dub house
Dubtronica
Dubstep
Dubstyle
Dunun - Yoruba drum music
Dunedin Sound - early 1980s alternative rock sound based out of Dunedin, New Zealand and Flying Nun Records
Dutch jazz
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E
Ea-En - Er-Ez
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Ea-En
Early music
East Coast blues
East Coast hip hop
Easy listening
Elafrolaïkó (see Laïko)
Electric blues
Electric folk
Electro
Electro Backbeat
Electro-industrial
Electro punk
Electro-swing
Electroclash
Electrofunk
Electronic art music
Electronic body music (EBM, also known as industrial dance)
Electronic dance
Electronic luk thung - Dance-ready form of Thai pleng luk thung
Electronic music
Electronic rock
Electronica
Electropop
Elevator music (or Muzak)
Emo
Emo rap
Emo pop
Emocore
Enka - Japanese pop music, using native forms
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Ep-Ez
Eremwu eu
Ethereal wave
Ethereal pop
Eurobeat
Eurodance
Euro disco
Europop
Eurotrance
Exotica
Experimental music
Experimental noise
Experimental rock
Extreme metal
Ezengileer - type of Tuvan xoomii[disambiguation needed ] said to imitate the trotting of horses.
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F
Fa - Fr - Fu
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Fa-Fr
Fado - Portuguese roots-based popular music
Falak - Tajik folk music
Fandango - Spanish dance music
Farruca - a genre of flamenco
Filk - modern, science fiction-oriented music
Film scores
Filmi - Indian film music
Filmi-ghazal - filmi based on Hindustani ghazal
Finger-style
Flamenco - dance music of Andalusia, Spain
Flower power
Folk metal
Folk music
Folk pop
Folk punk
Folk rock
Folktronica
Forró - extremely popular music of Northeastern Brazil
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Fr
Franco-country
Freakbeat
Freak-folk
Free improvisation - freeform musical improvisation
Free jazz - improvised 1960s jazz
Free music
Freestyle
Freestyle house - a cross-culture mix of hip-hop/electro/house/pop
Freetekno
Frevo - folk music from Recife, Brazil
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Fu
Fuji - Yoruba vocal and percussion music
Fulia - Afro-Venezuelan percussion music
Full On
Funaná
Funeral doom - an extremely slow version of doom metal, most commonly made at the "pace of a funeral march"
Funk - a bass-heavy outgrowth of soul music
Funk metal - 1980s combination of funk, heavy metal and punk rock
Funk rock
Funky house - considered a subgenre of UK Garage
Furniture music - Erik Satie's invention of Background music
Fusion jazz - mixture of rock and jazz
G
Ga - Ge-Gn - Go-Gr - Gu-Gy
G-funk
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Gaa-Gal
Gaana - type of Tamil song from Tamil Nadu, India
Gabber (also spelled as Gabba)
Gagaku - Japanese classical music derived from ancient court traditions
Gaita - Afro-Venezuelan form of loud percussion music
Galant
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Gam-Gan
Gamelan - diverse Indonesian classical music, making use of a vast array of melodic percussion
Gamelan angklung - Balinese gamelan played for cremations and festivals
Gamelan bebonangan - Balinese cymbal-based processional gamelan
Gamelan degung - a form of popular Sundanese gamelan
Gamelan kebyar - an energetic form of large Balinese gamelan
Gamelan salendro - gamelan dance music from West Java, known as lower-class music
Gamelan selunding - possibly the oldest style of gamelan, played only in the village of Tenganan in Bali
Gamelan semar pegulingan - sensual form of gamelan from Bali
Gamewave
Gammeldans
Gandarva - Nepali music with sarangi(instrument played by bow and have 4 strings)
Gandrung - Osing music performed at weddings.
Gangsta rap - American form of hip hop music which focuses on underground lifestyles and illegal activities.
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Gar-Gav
Gar - Tibetan classical music from gabi gishnola
Garage rock
Gavotte
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Ge-Gn
Gender wayang - Indonesian gamelan that accompanies shadow plays and other puppet plays
Gending - a distinct gamelan music from southern Sumatra
German Folk Music
Gharnati
Ghazal - vocal form originally Persian but since spread to Central Asia, Iran, Turkey and India
Ghetto house - form of Miami bass influenced by house music which arose in Chicago
Ghettotech - form of Miami bass which developed in 1990s Detroit
Girl group - Girls singing rock songs
Glam metal
Glam punk
Glam rock (alternately known as glitter rock)
Glitch
Gnawa
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Go-Gr
Go-go
Goa (also known as Goa trance)
Gong-chime music
Goombay - Bahamanian percussion music
Goregrind
Goshu ondo - a form of popularized Okinawan folk music
Gospel music
Gothic metal
Gothic rock
Grebo
Gregorian chant (plainchant)
Grime - emerged from East London, dark electronic beats with rapping, related to UK Garage and 2 step
Grindcore - fusion of Death Metal and Punk
Groove metal
Group Sounds - Japanese pop music from the 1960s, which included Appalachian folk music and psychedelic rock
Grunge
Grupera - a mixture of Mexican ranchera, norteño and cumbia
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Gu-Gy
Guajira
Guasca - from Colombia
Guitarra Baiana - from Pernambuco, Brazil, a style of playing frevo using electric guitars
Gumbe
Gunchei
Gunka - military marches with Japanese influences, created during the Meiji Restoration
Guoyue - invented conservatoire style of national Chinese music
Gwo ka - Guadeloupan percussion music
Gwo ka moderne - modernized gwo ka
Gypsy jazz
Gypsy punk
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H
Ha - He-Ho - Hu-Hy
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Hab-Has
Habanera - Africanized danzón
Hakka
Halling
Hambo
Hamburger Schule - Hamburg School of Hip-Hop
Hands Up
Hapa haole - a mixture of traditional Hawaiian music and English lyrics
Happy hardcore
Haqibah
Hardcore hip hop
Hardcore metal
Hardcore punk
Hardcore techno
Hard bop (hard bebop)
Hard house
Hard rock
Hardstyle
Hard trance
Harmonica blues
Hasaposérviko
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Hat-Haz
Hát chèo - an ancient form of Vietnamese stage opera
Hát chau van - a popular spiritual folk music of Vietnam
Hát tuồng (Hát bôi) - Vietnamese operatic music
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He-Ho
Heartland rock
Heavy beat
Heavy metal
Hi-NRG
Highlife
Highlife fusion
Hillybilly music
Hiplife
Hip hop
Hip house
Hindustani classical music
Hiragasy
Honky tonk
Honkyoku
Hora lunga
Hornpipes
Horrorcore rap
Horror punk
House music
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Hu-Hy
Hua'er
Huasteco - folk music from Huasteco, Mexico
Huaynos - Andean dance music now most widespread in Peru
Hula
Humppa
Hunguhungu
Hyangak - Korean court music
Hymn
Hyphy
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I
Ibiza music
Icaro
Igbo music
Illbient
Impressionist music
Improvisational
Incidental music
Indietronica
Indie folk
Indie music
Indie pop
Indie rock
Indo jazz - jazz mixed with forms of Indian music
Indoyíftika
Industrial death metal
Industrial hip-hop
Industrial music
Industrial musical (also known as corporate musical)
Industrial metal
Industrial rock (or coldwave)
Instrumental rock
Intelligent dance music (IDM, also known as intelligent techno, listening techno or art techno)
International Latin - pop ballads from various Latin countries, especially Colombia
Inuit music - music of the Inuit
Irish folk
Irish Rebel Music
Iscathamiya
Island - mix of reggae, ska, latin; music sounding from the island
Isolationist
Italo dance
Italo Disco - Italian nightclub music
Italo house
Izvorna bosanska muzika - modernized folk music from Drina, Bosnia
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J
Ja-Je - Ji-Ju
J-Pop - Japanese pop music
J-Rock - Japanese rock music
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Ja-Je
Jaipongan - unpredictably rhythmic dance music from West Java, Indonesia
Jam band
Jam rock
Jamrieng samai
Jangle pop
Japanese Pop
Jarana
Jarochos - folk music from Veracruz, Mexico
Jawaiian - Hawaiian reggae
Jazz
Jazz blues
Jazz-funk
Jazz fusion
Jazz metal
Jazz rap
Jegog - Giant Bamboo ensemble of Bali, Indonesia
Jenkka
Jesus music
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Ji-Jt
Jibaro
Jig
Jig punk
Jing ping
Jingle - form of music used in television commercials
Jit
Jitterbug
Jive
Joged - a generic term for various types of dance music all over Indonesia
Joged bumbung - a popular form of joged ensemble
Joik
Joropo
Jota
Jug band
Juke joint blues
Jùjú
Jump blues
Jumpstyle
Jungle
Junkanoo
Juré
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K
Ka - Ke-Kh - Ki-Kp - Kr-Kw
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K-
K-pop - Korean pop music
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Ka
Kaba - Southern Albanian instrumental music
Kabuki - lively and popular form of Japanese theater and music
Kadans
Kagok - Korean aristocratic vocal music accompanied by strings, wind and percussion instruments
Kaiso - Often used as a synonym for calypso.
Kalamatianó
Kalinda (kalenda, ti kannot)
Kan ha diskan
Kansas City blues
Kantádhes
Kantrum
Kargyraa
Kaseko - Surinamese folk music
Kachāshī - lively, celebratory Okinawan folk music
Katajjaq or Inuit throat singing - competitive duet style
Kawachi ondo - a form of modernized Okinawan folk music
Kayōkyoku - traditionally-structured Japanese pop music
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Ke-Kh
Kebyar - see gamelan gong kebyar above
Kecak - Balinese "monkeychant"
Kecapi suling - instrumental, improvisation-based music from Java
Kélé
Kertok - Malaysian xylophone music played in small ensembles
Khaleeji - popular folk-based music of the Persian Gulf countries
Khap
Khene
Khyal - Hindustani vocal music
Khoomei
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Ki-Kp
Kinko
Kirtan
Kiwi rock
Kizomba
Klape - Dalmatian male choir music
Klasik
Kléftiko
Klezmer
Kliningan
Kolomyjka
Komagaku
Konpa
Kpanlogo
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Kr-Kw
Krakowiak
Krautrock
Kriti (krithi) - a Hindu hymn
Kroncong - popular Indonesian music with strong Portuguese influence
Krump - upbeat and fast-paced with bass and clapping
Kuduro
Kulintang - Traditional gong-chime music of the Philippines, Eastern Indonesia, Eastern Malaysia, Brunei and Timor
Kulning - Swedish folk songs
Kumina - music (and religion) of the Bongo Nation of Jamaica
Kundiman - traditional Filipino songs adapted to Western song structure
Kvæði
Kwaito
Kwassa kwassa
Kwela
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L
La - Le-Lo - Lu
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La
La la - Louisianan Creole music
Lambada
Latin pop - pop music that has what may be perceived a Latin American influence
Lavway
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Le-Lo
Legényes - Hungarian–Transylvanian men's dance
Letkajenkka
Lhamo - form of Tibetan opera
Lieder
Light Music - 20th Century light orchestral music (mainly British)
Light Rock -also known as Soft Rock or AM Gold
Liquid Funk
Liquindi
Lo-fi music
Logobi
Long-song - traditional Mongolian slow songs
Louisiana blues
Lounge music
Lovers rock
Lowercase
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Lu
Lu - unaccompanied Tibetan folk music
Lubbock Sound
Luk grung - Popular Thai music from the early 20th century
Lullaby
Lundu
Lelio
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M
Ma - Mb-Mg - Mi - Min-Mir - Mo-Mp - Mu
M-Base
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Mad-Mam
Madchester (also known as Manchester)
Madrigal
Mafioso rap
Magnificat
Mahori - type of Thai classical music
Makossa
Malhun
Maloya - traditional music from Réunion
Mambo
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Man-Map
Manaschi - Kyrgyz folk music
Mandarin pop - early Taiwanese pop sung in Mandarin and popular with young listeners
Mangue Bit - African style beat music style from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Manila sound - Early 1970s development in Pinoy rock which mixed Tagalog and English lyrics
Manouche
Mapouka
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Mar-Maz
Marabi
Maracatu - African and Portuguese music popular around Recife, Brazil
Mariachi - pop form of Son Jaliscience
Marimba
Marrabenta
Martial Industrial - A mix of industrial and martial music.
Maskanda - popularized Zulu-traditional music
Marinera - Dance of Perú
Martinetes
Mass
Matamuerte
Mathcore
Math rock
Maxixe
Mazurka - Martinican Music
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Mb-Mg
Mbalax
Mbaqanga (township jive)
Mbube
Mbumba
Meditation
Medieval folk rock
Medieval metal
Medieval music
Mejorana
Melhûn
Melodic black metal
Melodic death metal
Melodic hardcore
Melodic metalcore
Melodic music
Melodic trance
Memphis blues
Memphis soul
Mento
Merengue
Merengue típico moderno
Méringue
Meringue
Merseybeat
Metal
Metalcore
Metallic hardcore
Mexican rock
Meykhana
Mezwed
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Mia-Mil
Miami bass (booty bass) (Bass music)
Microhouse
Mini-jazz
Minuet
Milonga
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Min-Mit
Min'yo - Japanese folk music
Mini-jazz - Caribbean jazz
Minimalist music
Minimalist trance
Minimal techno
Minstrel show
Minneapolis sound
Mirolóyia
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Mo-MP
Modinha
Modern classical music
Modern Laika
Modern Rock
Mor lam - Laotian and Thai ensemble music for vocals with accompaniment
Mor lam sing - popular form of Laotian traditional music developed by Laotians in Thailand
Moombahton
Motorpop
Motown
Montuno
Morna
Mozambique
MPB (música popular brasileira) - catch-all term for multiple varieties of Brazilian pop music
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Mu
Mugam - classical music of Azerbaijan
Multicultural
Murga - Uruguayan street carnival dance with heavy percussion, also popular in Argentina.
Musette
Mushroom Jazz
Music drama
Music Hall
Música criolla - a coastal Peruvian music from the early 20th century, consisting of a variety of Western fusions
Música llanera - harp-based form of folk music from Los Llanos, Colombia
Música tropical - a form of Colombian salsa music
Musiqi-e assil - Persian classical music
Musique concrète (also known as electroacoustic music)
Muwashshah
Muzak (or elevator music)
N
Na – Ng
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Na
Nagauta – Japanese style of shamisen-playing
Nakasi – Taiwanese musical form
Nangma – Tibetan dance music
Nanguan – Taiwanese instrumental music
Narcocorrido – Spanish for "Drug ballad", this Mexican music's theme was equivalent to gangster rap
Nardcore – Nardcore is a hardcore punk movement that came out of Southern California in the early 1980s
Narodna muzika – Bosnian folk music
Nasheed – a capella music closely related with Islamic revival in the 20th century
Nashville Sound – pop-country music based out of Nashville, Tennessee
National Socialist Black Metal (NSBM) – Nazi black metal
Naturalismo – a term for the 2000s folk movement also referred to as New Weird America or Freak Folk
Nederpop – popular music of the Netherlands, especially in the Dutch language
Neoclassical (Dark Wave)
Neoclassical (New Age)
Neoclassical music
Neo-classical metal
Néo kýma
Neofolk – a form of folk music that emerged from European ideals and post-industrial music
Neo-Medieval
Neo-prog
Neo-Psychedelia
Neo Soul (Nu Soul) – late 1990s and early 2000s American fusion of contemporary R&B, 1970s style soul music, hip hop music, jazz, and classical music
Nerdcore
Neue Deutsche Härte
Neue Deutsche Welle – a kind of German New Wave music
New Age music – numerous varieties of music associated with New Age spirituality and culture, especially including atmospheric and natural sounds
New Beat – a downtempo music style from Belgium, contemporary to Chicago House and Detroit Techno.
New Instrumental
New Jack Swing (New Jack R&B, Swingbeat) – late 1980s and early 1990s American fusion of hip hop music, R&B, doo wop and soul music
New Orleans blues – piano and horn-heavy blues from the city of New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans jazz
New Pop
New prog
New Rave
New Romantic – popular British New Wave from the early 1980s
New school hip hop – generic term for hip hop music recorded after about 1989
New Taiwanese Song – modern Taiwanese pop music which combines ballads, rock and roll and hip hop
New Wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) – mid- to late 1970s heavy metal coming out of the United Kingdom
New Wave – melodious pop outgrowth of arty punk rock, also used as description of an emerging sound in any genre (e.g. Alpine New Wave)
New Wave of New Wave
New Weird America – term to defining emerging folk/psychedelia/drone/noize influenced by pre-war country-folk-blues & 1960s counter cultural underground music.
New York blues – jazzy, urban blues from the early 20th century
New York House (also known as US Garage)
Newgrass – progressive bluegrass
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Ng
Nganja
Niche – sub-genre of UK Garage and Bassline House, name derived from the club in Sheffield, that first started putting on regular bassline nights
Nintendocore
Nisiótika – folk songs of the Greek islands
No Wave – avant-garde late 1970s outgrowth of New Wave and punk rock
Noh – highly-stylized Japanese theater and music style
Noise music
Noise pop – experimental 1990s outgrowth of punk
Noise rock – atonal punk rock from the 1980s
Nongak – Korean folk music played by 20-30 performers on different kinds of percussion instruments
Norae Undong – Korean rock music with socially aware lyrics
Nordic folk music
Nordic folk dance music
Nortec – electronic style from Tijuana, Mexico
Norteño (Tex-Mex) – Modernized corridos pop music of Mexico
Northern Soul – late 1960s variety of soul music from northern England
Nota
Nu breaks
Nu jazz – fusion of late 1990s jazz and electronic music
Nu metal – fusion of heavy metal music with genres such as hip hop, funk, grunge and electronic music
Nu soul (neo soul) – popular fusion of hip hop music and soul music
Nueva canción – Chilean pop-folk music which influenced by native Chilean and Bolivian forms
Nyatiti- a Kenyan song for the Luo community.
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O
Obscuro
Oi! – 1980s style of British punk rock
Old school hip hop – generic term for hip hop music recorded before approximately 1989
Old-time – archaic term for many different styles that were an outgrowth of Appalachian folk music and fed into country music
Oldies
Olonkho – Yakut epic songs
Oltului
Ondo
Opera – theatrical performances in which all or most dialogue is sung with musical accompaniment
Operatic Pop – subgenre of pop music that is performed in a classical operatic style (also referred to as "Popera")
Oratorio – similar to opera but without scenery, costumes or acting
Orchestra – a large ensemble, especially one used to played European classical music
Organ trio – a style of jazz from the 1960s that blended blues and jazz (and later "soul jazz") and which was based around the sound of the Hammond organ
Organic ambient – often acoustic ambient music which uses instruments and styles borrowed from world music
Organum – Middle Ages polyphonic music
Oriental metal – a subgenre of folk metal that incorporates elements of traditional Middle Eastern music.
Orgel (Organ Orgue) – keyboard instrument with/without pedals
Ottava rima – Italian rhyming stanzas
Outlaw country – late 1960s and 70s form of country music with a hard-edged sound and rebellious lyrics
Outsider music – generic term for music performed by outsiders
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P
Pa – Pi – Po – Pr
P-Funk – 1970s fusion of funk, heavy metal and psychedelic rock, most closely associated with the bands Funkadelic and Parliament, who shared many members collectively known as P-Funk
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Pa
Pagan metal
Pagan rock
Pagode – Brazilian style of music which originated in the Rio de Janeiro region
Paisley Underground – 1980s style of alternative rock that drew heavily on psychedelia
Palm wine – fusion of numerous West African, Latin American and European genres, popular throughout coastal West Africa in the 20th century
Panambih – tembang sunda that uses metered poetry
Panchai baja – Nepalese wedding music
Panchavadyam – Temple music from Kerala, India
Pansori – Korean folk music played by a singer and a drummer
Paranda – Garifuna form of music
Parranda – Afro-Venezuelan form of music
Parody – humorous renditions of various songs
Patriotic
Pambiche (Merengue estilo yanqui)
Paranda – Garifuna music of Belize
Parang – Trinidadian Christmas carols
Partido alto
Pasillo
Psychobilly – Punk rock and country
Peace Punk
Pelimanni music – Finnish folk dance music
Petenera
Peyote Song – a mixture of gospel and traditional Native American music
Philadelphia soul – soft 1970s soul that came out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Pi
Piano blues
Piano rock
Pimba – Origin: Portugal.
Piedmont blues
Pinoy rock – rock and roll sung in Tagalog from the Philippines
Pinpeat orchestra
Piphat – ancient form of Thai classical ensemble
Piyyutim
Plainchant (Gregorian chant)
Plena
Pleng phua cheewit – Thai protest rock
Pleng Thai sakorn – a Thai interpretation of Western classical music
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Po
Polka
Polo
Polonaise
Pols – Danish fiddle and accordion dance music
Polska
Pong lang
Pop folk
Pop music
Pop punk
Pop rap
Pop rock
Pop sunda – Sundanese mixture of gamelan degung and pop music structures
Pornocore
Porro – Colombian big band music
Post-Britpop
Post-disco
Post-grunge
Post-hardcore- Slite mixture of Hardcore and Punk rock
Post-industrial
Post-metal
Post-minimalism
Post-punk
Post-rock
Post-romanticism
Power electronics
Power metal
Power noise (or rhythmic noise)
Power pop
Powerviolence (also known as power violence)
Pow-wow – Native American dance music
Ppongtchak – Korean pop music developed during the Japanese occupation
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Pr
Praise song
Program symphony
Progressive electronic music
Progressive folk music
Progressive house
Progressive metal
Progressive bluegrass
Progressive rock
Progressive trance
Protopunk
Psychedelic music
Psych folk or Psychedelic folk
Psychedelic rock
Psychedelic trance (Psy-trance)
Psychobilly
Punk blues – a US music genre that developed in the 1980s, which mixes elements of blues with the aggressive sound of punk.
Punk Cabaret – a fusion of musical theater and cabaret style music with the aggressive, raw nature of punk rock.
Punk jazz
Punk rock
Punta
Punta rock – 1970s Belizean music
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Q
Quan ho – Vietnamese vocal music which originated in the Red River Delta
Qasidah – Epic religious poetry accompanied by percussion and chanting
Qasidah modern – Qasidah updated for mainstream audiences
Qawwali – Sufi religious music updated for mainstream audiences, was originated in India
Quadrille
Queercore
Quiet Storm
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R
Ra – Rh
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Ra
Rada
Raga rock – Swiss soul, rock and Indian music fusion
Raga
Raggamuffin (Ragga)
Ragga Jungle
Ragtime
Rai – Algerian folk music now developed into a popular style
Raicore
Raï'n'B
Rake-and-scrape – Bahamanian instrumental music
Ramkbach
Ramvong
Ranchera – pop mariachi from 1950s film soundtracks
Rap
Rara
Rare groove
Rasiya
Rave
Rebetiko
Red Dirt (music)
reel
Reggae
Reggae dancehall (see Dancehall)
Reggae fusion
Reggae highlife
Reggaeton
Rekilaulu – Finnish rhyming sleigh songs
Relax Music
Religious
Rembetiko
Renaissance music
Requiem
Rhapsody
Rhyming spiritual – Bahamanian hymns
Rhythm and blues (R&B)
Rhythmic noise (or power noise)
Ricercar
Rímur – Icelandic heroic epic songs
Riot grrrl
Rock
Rock opera
Rock and roll
Rock en español
Rockabilly
Rocksteady
Rococo
Romantic period in music
Rondeaux
Ronggeng – a folk music from Malacca, Malaysia
Roots reggae
Roots rock
Roots rock reggae
Rumba
African Rumba
Cuban Rumba (yambu, Columbia, and guaguanco)
Flamenco Rumba also known as Gypsy rumba
S
Sa - Sc - Si - So - St - Sy
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Sa
Sabar - drumming style found in Senegal
Sacred Harp
Sadcore
Saibara
Salegy
Salsa - fusion of multiple Cuban- and Puerto Rican-derived pop genres from immigrants in New York City
Salsa erotica - lyrically explicit form of salsa romantica
Salsa romantica - a soft, romantic form of salsa music
Saltarello
Samba - form of Brazilian popular music
Samba-canção - traditional samba in slow tempo and with romantic lyrics. influenced by bolero
Samba-reggae - a genre of samba with a choppy, reggae-like rhythm.
Samba-rock
Sambai
Sanjo - Korean instrumental folk music
Sato kagura
Sawt - urban music from Kuwait and Bahrain
Saya - Bolivian music derived from African rhythms
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Sc
Schlager
Schottisch
Schranz
Scottish Baroque music
Screamo
Scrumpy and Western - folk music from West Country of England
Sea shanty
Sean nós - Sean-nós singing style of Ireland
Second Viennese School
Sega music
Seggae
Seis
Semba
Sephardic music
Serialism
Sertanejo
Set dance
Sevdalinka - Bosnian urban popular music
Sevillana
Shabab
Shabad
Shalako - Armenian folk dance
Shan'ge - Taiwanese Hakka mountain songs
Shango
Shape note
Shibuya-kei
Shidaiqu - Hong Kong-based form of traditional music updated for pop audiences and sung in Mandarin
Shima uta - a form of Okinawan dance music
Shock rock
Shoegaze - British pop
Shoka - Japanese songs written during the Meiji Restoration to bring Western music to Japanese schools
Shomyo - Japanese Buddhist chanting
Show tune
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Si
Sica
Siguiriyas
Silat - Malaysian mixture of music, dance and martial arts
Sinawi - Korean religious music meant for dancing; it is improvised and reminiscent of jazz
Singer-songwriter
Situational - pertaining to songs describing the current situation; most prevalent in films
Ska
Ska punk
Skacore (third wave of ska)
Skald
Skate punk
Skiffle
Slack-key guitar (kihoalu) - Hawaiian form invented by retuning open strings on a guitar
Slängpolska
Slide
Slowcore
Sludge metal
Smooth jazz
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Sk
Skweee
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So
Soca
Soft rock
Son-batá (batá rock)
Son montuno - Cuban folk music
Sonata
Songo - a mixture of changuí and son montuno
Songo-salsa - a mixture of songo, hip hop and salsa
Sophisti-pop
Soukous
Soul blues
Soul jazz
Soul music
Soundtrack
Southern Gospel
Southern Harmony
Southern hip hop
Southern metal
Southern rock
Southern soul
Space age pop
Space music
Space rock
Spectralism
Speedcore
Speed garage
Speed metal
Spirituals
Spouge - Barbadian folk music
Sprechgesang
Square dance
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St
St. Louis blues
Steelband
Stoner metal
Stoner rock
Straight edge
Strathspeys
Stride
String - 1980s Thai pop music
String quartet
Sufi music
Suite
Sunshine pop
Suomirock
Super Eurobeat
Surf ballads
Surf instrumental
Surf music
Surf pop
Surf rock
Swamp blues
Swamp pop
Swamp rock
Swingbeat (New Jack Swing, New Jack R&B)
Swing music
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Sy
Sygyt - type of xoomii (Tuva throat singing), likened to the sound of whistling
Symphonic black metal
Symphonic metal
Symphonic poem
Symphonic rock
Symphony
Synthpop
Synthpunk
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T
Taarab
Tai tu - Vietnamese chamber music
Taiwanese pop - early Taiwanese pop music influenced by enka and popular with older listeners
Tala - a rhythmic pattern in Indian classical music
Talempong - a distinct Minangkabau gamelan music
Tambu
Tamburitza
Tamil Christian keerthanai - Christian devotional lyrics in Tamil
Táncház - Hungarian dance music
Tango - Argentine popular music that spread internationally in the 1920s
Tanguk - a form of Korean court music that includes elements of Chinese music
Tappa
Tarana - form of vocal music from northern India using highly rhythmic nonsense syllables
Tarantella
Taranto
Tech House
Tech Trance
Technical death metal
Technical metal
Techno
Technoid
Technopop - Japanese-language electropop / synthpop
Techstep
Techtonik
Teen pop
Tejano music or "Tex-Mex", sometimes confused with norteño
Tekno
Tembang sunda - Sundanese sung free verse poetry
Texas blues
Theme music
Thillana - form of vocal music from South India using highly rhythmic nonsense syllables
Thrashcore
Thrash metal
Thumri - a type of popular Hindustani vocal music
Tibetan pop - pop music heavily influenced by Chinese forms, emerging in the 1980s
Tientos
Timbila - form of folk music in Mozambique
Tin Pan Alley
Tinga
Tinku - traditional music and dance from Potosi Bolivia
Toeshey - Tibetan dance music
Togaku
T'ong guitar - acoustic guitar pop music of Korea
Traditional pop music
Trallalero - Genoese urban songs
Trance
Tribal house
Trikitixa - Basque accordion music
Trip-hop
Trip rock
Tropicalia
Tropipop
Truck-driving country
Tumba
Turbo-folk - aggressive form of modernized Serbian music
Turkish Music
Turntablism
Tuvan throat-singing
Twee pop
Twist (also a dance style, early 1960s)
Two tone (second wave of ska)
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U
UK garage
UK pub rock
Unblack metal (also known as Christian black metal)
Underground music
Uplifting Trance
Urban Cowboy
Urban Folk
Urban jazz
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V
Vallenato - accordion-based Colombian folk music
Vaudeville
Verbunkos - Hungarian folk music
Verismo
Video game music - Melodic music as defined by its media.
Viking metal
Villanella - 16th century Neapolitan songs
Virelais
Visual Kei
Visual music
Vocal house
Vocal jazz
Vocal music
Volksmusik
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W
Waila (chicken scratch) - a Tohono O'odham fusion of polka, norteño and Native American music
Waltz
Wangga - Australian aboriginal music genre
Warabe uta
Wassoulou
Were music
West Coast hip hop is a hip hop music subgenre that encompasses any artists or music which originates in the westernmost region of the United States
Western blues
Western swing
Witch house
Wizard rock
Women's music or womyn's music, wimmin's music--1970s lesbian/feminist
Wong shadow - 1960s Thai pop music
Work song
Wood Sounds of organic synthesis recorded on organic medium such as tape.
Worldbeat
World music
World fusion music
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X
Xoomii (khoomii, hoomii) - a type of Tuvan throat singing
Xhosa music
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Y
Yé-yé
Yo-pop
Yodeling
Yukar
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Z
Zajal
Zapin - derived from ancient Arabic music, zapin is popular throughout Malaysia
Zarzuela - a form of Spanish operetta
Zeuhl
Zeibekiko - Greek Dance 9/8 Rytmus
Zef - South African music based in both rap & rave
Ziglibithy
Zouglou
Zouk - French Caribbean (Guadeloupean) dance music
Zouk chouv
Zouklove - Guadeloupean Music
Zulu music
Zydeco - popular Louisianan Creole music
