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				MARY J BLIGE  
				  
				  
				
				
				
				List of music genres 
				
				
				
				A cappella - any singing performed without instrumental 
				backing   
				  
				
				
				Aa-Ad 
				
				
				
				Aak -
				
				Korean court music  
				
				
				
				Aaroubi - evolved form of
				
				al-andalous classical 
				music which comes from
				
				Algiers  
				
				
				
				Abaimajani  
				
				
				
				Abajeños -
				
				folk music of the
				
				Perépecha of
				
				Mexico  
				
				
				
				Aboriginal rock - rock and roll mixed with
				
				Australian aborigine music, began in
				
				1980s  
				
				
				
				Abstract hip hop  
				
				
				
				Abwe  
				
				
				
				Acoustic Rock  
				
				
				
				Acoustic Techno Fusion
				 
				
				
				
				Acid croft - mixture of 
				traditional
				
				Scottish music with
				
				house influences  
				
				
				
				Acid house -
				
				house music using simple tone generators with 
				tempo-controlled resonant filters  
				
				
				
				Acid groove  
				
				
				
				Acid jazz -
				
				jazz mixed with
				
				soul,
				
				hip hop and
				
				funk  
				
				
				
				Acid rap  
				
				
				
				Acid rock  
				
				
				
				Acid techno  
				
				
				
				Adai-adai  
				
				
				
				Aduk-aduk  
				
				
				
				Adult contemporary  
				
				
				
				Anti-Serious Music  
				  
				
				Af-Ak 
				
				
				
				Afoxé  
				
				
				
				African blues  
				
				
				
				African jazz  
				
				
				
				Afrobeat -
				
				African rhythms mixed with American
				
				funk  
				
				
				
				Afro-Cuban jazz -
				
				jazz mixed with
				
				merengue,
				
				salsa or other Latin forms  
				
				
				
				Afro-Cuban rumba 
				 
				
				
				
				Afro-juju  
				
				
				
				Afro-Manding blues 
				 
				
				
				
				Afro-Punk  
				
				
				
				Afro-reggae  
				
				
				
				Afro-soul  
				
				
				
				Afro-zouk  
				
				
				
				Afroma  
				
				
				
				Aguinaldo  
				
				
				
				Ahouach  
				
				
				
				Ahidus  
				
				
				
				Air  
				
				
				
				Akyn -
				
				Kazakh
				
				folk music made by travelling musicians also called akyn
				 
				  
				
				Al 
				
				
				
				Al-âla  
				
				
				
				Alb-pop -
				
				Albanian
				
				pop music  
				
				
				
				Aleatoric music - music the composition of which is 
				partially left to chance  
				
				
				
				Algerias  
				
				
				
				Alomaco  
				
				
				
				Alpine New Wave  
				
				
				
				Alpunk  
				
				
				
				Alternative country - reaction against the
				
				1990s highly-polished
				
				Nashville sound  
				
				
				
				Alternative hip hop - opposite of
				
				gangsta rap, usually includes socially or politically aware 
				lyrics (also known as alternative rap or Bohemian hip hop)
				 
				
				
				
				Alternative metal - catch-all term for
				
				heavy metal mixed with
				
				punk,
				
				funk,
				
				hip hop or other influences  
				
				
				
				Alternative rock - broad movement born in the
				
				1980s generally relegated to the underground music scene and 
				operating outside of the mainstream  
				
				
				
				Alternative synth - Also 
				known as Subliminal, this features usually a repeatative bass 
				riff and/or a bass riff that is played backwards. It also 
				features a lot of keyboards and is usually instrumental 
				 
				  
				
				Am-An 
				
				
				
				Amanédhes  
				
				
				
				Ambient - atmospheric
				
				electronic music combined with
				
				jazz,
				
				New Age and other influences  
				
				
				
				Ambient acoustic 
				 
				
				
				
				Ambient breakbeat 
				 
				
				
				
				Ambient dub  
				
				
				
				Ambient house  
				
				
				
				Ambient groove  
				
				
				
				Ambient techno  
				
				
				
				Ambient trance 
				 
				
				
				
				American fingerstyle guitar (American primitive guitar)
				 
				
				
				
				Americana  
				
				
				
				Anadolu rock - Turkish rock music  
				
				
				
				Anarcho-punk -
				
				1970s mixture of
				
				punk rock with
				
				anarchist lyrics  
				
				
				
				Andártika  
				
				
				
				Andean New Age - a mixture of native
				
				Peruvian and Western musics which arose in tourist areas in
				
				Lima,
				
				Cuzco,and
				
				Ollantaytambo  
				
				
				
				Angklung -
				
				Osinger and
				
				Balinese style of
				
				gamelan performed exclusively by young boys  
				
				
				
				Angolan merengue 
				 
				
				
				
				Anti-folk  
				
				
				
				Antiphonal  
				  
				
				Ap-Ax 
				
				
				
				Apala  
				
				
				
				Appalachian folk - in the
				
				United States, commonly referred to as simply folk music
				 
				
				
				
				Arabesk - Turkish popular music  
				
				
				
				Areito  
				
				
				
				Arena rock -
				
				1970s catchy, bombastic mixture of
				
				hard rock,
				
				prog and
				
				pop music  
				
				
				
				Argentinean rock  
				
				
				
				Arpa grande - a style of 
				rural
				
				Mexican
				
				folk music  
				
				
				
				Arribeño - lyrical
				
				folk music from
				
				Sierra Gorda,
				
				Mexico  
				
				
				
				Ars antiqua  
				
				
				
				Ars nova  
				
				
				
				Art metal  
				
				
				
				Art punk  
				
				
				
				Art rock  
				
				
				
				Ashiq -
				
				Azeri
				
				bards who sing and accompany themselves on a
				
				saz (a kind of
				
				lute)  
				
				
				
				Ashoug  
				
				
				
				Asian Underground - British-based form of Indian and Western 
				fusion  
				
				
				
				Australian country music (see also
				
				Country music)  
				
				
				
				Australian pub rock  
				
				
				
				Australian hip hop  
				
				
				
				Australian humour  
				
				
				
				Australian warmetal
				 
				
				
				
				Avant-garde jazz  
				
				
				
				Avant-garde music - any kind of experimental music 
				incorporated bizarre ideas, structures or instrumentation 
				 
				
				
				
				Axé - pop music from
				
				Salvador, Bahia  
				  
				
				B 
				
				
				
				Ba -
				
				Be-Bh -
				
				Bi-Bl -
				
				Bo -
				
				Br-Bu 
				  
				
				Bac-Bal 
				
				
				
				Bachata  
				
				
				
				Baião  
				
				
				
				Bakersfield sound - gritty, hard-edged reaction against
				
				1950s pop country (Nashville 
				sound)  
				
				
				
				Bakshy -
				
				Turkmen
				
				folk music made by travelling musicians also called 
				bakshy  
				
				
				
				Baiáo -
				
				Dance music created by a trio of
				
				triangle,
				
				bass drum and
				
				accordion  
				
				
				
				Baila -
				
				Sri Lankan
				
				dance music derived from African slaves held by the 
				Portuguese  
				
				
				
				Baisha xiyue - a song and dance suite from the
				
				Naxi of
				
				Lijiang,
				
				China  
				
				
				
				Bajourou  
				
				
				
				Bakou - trilling vocals that accompany
				
				Wolof wrestling  
				
				
				
				Bagad  
				
				
				
				Bal granmoun  
				
				
				
				Bal-musette  
				
				
				
				Balakadri  
				
				
				
				Ballad - generic term for usually slow, romantic, despairing 
				and catastrophic songs  
				
				
				
				Ballad calypso 
				 
				
				
				
				Ballata  
				
				
				
				Ballet (music)  
				
				
				
				Balkan music  
				
				
				
				Balss  
				  
				
				Bam-Bay 
				
				
				
				Bamberas  
				
				
				
				Bamboo band - originally 
				from the
				
				Solomon Islands, music played by hitting bamboo tubes with 
				sandals  
				
				
				
				Bamboula wake  
				
				
				
				Bambuco  
				
				
				
				Banda -
				
				Mexican
				
				brass
				
				norteño
				
				pop music invented in the
				
				1960s  
				
				
				
				Bangsawan  
				
				
				
				Bantowbol  
				
				
				
				Barbarian Black Metal - 
				exreme
				
				black metal about paganism and barbarism  
				
				
				
				Barbershop music - extremely
				
				melodic
				
				a cappella vocal style  
				
				
				
				Barndance  
				
				
				
				Baroque music -
				
				17th-18th 
				century European
				
				classical music  
				
				
				
				Baroque metal  
				
				
				
				Bass music (Miami bass, Booty bass) -
				
				electro influenced form of
				
				hip hop
				
				dance music arising in
				
				Miami,
				
				Florida  
				
				
				
				Bastard Pop  
				
				
				
				Batá  
				
				
				
				Batá-rumba  
				
				
				
				Batucada  
				
				
				
				Batuco  
				
				
				
				Bayin -
				
				Taiwanese
				
				Hakka instrumental music  
				  
				
				Be-Bh 
				
				
				
				Beach music  
				
				
				
				Beat  
				
				
				
				Beatboxing  
				
				
				
				Bebop -
				
				1940s
				
				jazz style with complex improvisation and a fast tempo
				 
				
				
				
				Bedoui  
				
				
				
				Bedoui citadinisé 
				 
				
				
				
				Beguine (biguine)  
				
				
				
				Beguine moderne 
				 
				
				
				
				Beguine vide  
				
				
				
				Beiguan -
				
				Taiwanese instrumental music  
				
				
				
				Bel canto -
				
				Italian vocal style which arose in the late
				
				16th century and which ended in the mid-19th 
				century  
				
				
				
				Belair  
				
				
				
				Bend-skin  
				
				
				
				Benga  
				
				
				
				Bhajan - a northern
				
				Hindu religious song  
				
				
				
				Bhakti  
				
				
				
				Bhangra - originally
				
				Punjabi
				
				dance music which became popular in the
				
				UK  
				
				
				
				Bhangra-wine  
				
				
				
				Bhangragga  
				
				
				
				Bhangramuffin  
				  
				
				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  
				
				
				
				Big Hip  
				
				
				
				Biguine -
				
				Martinican
				
				folk music  
				
				
				
				Biguine moderne -
				
				Martinican
				
				biguine adapted to pop forms and including
				
				reggae and other influences  
				
				
				
				Black metal - highly distorted and swift form of
				
				heavy metal  
				
				
				
				Bloco afro  
				
				
				
				Bluegrass -
				
				American
				
				country music mixed with
				
				Irish and
				
				Scottish influences  
				
				
				
				Blue-eyed soul  
				
				
				
				Blues -
				
				African-American
				
				music from the
				
				Mississippi Delta area  
				
				
				
				Blues ballad  
				
				
				
				Blues-rock  
				
				
				
				Blurcore  
				
				
				
				Big Drum Dance 
				 
				
				
				
				Bigono duu  
				
				Bitchcore  
				
				
				
				Bitpop  
				  
				
				Bo 
				
				
				
				Bocet  
				
				
				
				Boi - Central Amazonian
				
				folk music  
				
				
				
				Bolero -
				
				Spanish and
				
				Cuban
				
				dance and
				
				music  
				
				
				
				Bomba  
				
				
				
				Bombay pop  
				
				
				
				Bongo - distinctive
				
				African drum and style of drumming  
				
				
				
				Bongo wake  
				
				
				
				Boogie rock  
				
				
				
				Boogie woogie - style of
				
				piano-based
				
				blues popular in the
				
				1940s
				
				US  
				
				
				
				Boogaloo -
				
				soul and
				
				mambo fusion popular in
				
				1960s
				
				United States  
				
				Booty bass (Miami 
				bass,
				
				Bass music)  
				
				
				
				Borbangnadyr  
				
				
				
				Borbannadir - type of
				
				Tuvan
				
				xoomii said to sound like the rapids of a river  
				
				
				
				Border ballad  
				
				
				
				Bossa nova  
				
				
				
				Bouncy techno  
				
				
				
				Boy band  
				  
				
				Br-Bu 
				
				
				
				Brass band  
				
				
				
				Brass Hop  
				
				
				
				Brazilian funk  
				
				
				
				Brazilian jazz -
				
				bossa nova and
				
				samba mixed with
				
				American
				
				jazz  
				
				
				
				Breakbeat  
				
				
				
				Breakbeat hardcore  
				
				
				
				Breakcore  
				
				
				
				Bright disco  
				
				
				
				Brill Building Pop 
				 
				
				
				
				Britfunk  
				
				
				
				Britpop  
				
				
				
				British blues  
				
				
				
				British folk  
				
				
				
				British Invasion  
				
				
				
				Broadside ballad  
				
				
				
				Broken beat  
				
				
				
				Brown-eyed soul  
				
				
				
				Broxa (brosca)  
				
				
				
				Brukdown - rural
				
				Belizean creole music  
				
				
				
				Bubblegum pop - sometimes synonymous with
				
				pop music, especially that performed by
				
				teen idols; can also refer tospecific styles of South 
				African or Japanese pop  
				
				
				
				Buiasche  
				
				
				
				Bikutsi  
				
				
				
				Bulerias  
				
				
				
				Bumba-meu-boi  
				
				
				
				Bunggul  
				
				
				
				Bunraku -
				
				Japanese style originated from a kind of
				
				puppet-theater.
				 
				
				
				
				Burger-highlife  
				
				
				
				Burgundian School  
				  
				
				C 
				
				
				
				Ca -
				
				Cc-Ce -
				
				Ch -
				
				Ci-Cl -
				
				Co -
				
				Cr-Cu 
				  
				
				Cad-Cam 
				
				
				
				Ca din tulnic  
				
				
				
				Ca pe lunca  
				
				
				
				Ca tru - (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  
				
				
				
				Calentanos -
				
				folk music of the
				
				Balsas River Basin,
				
				Mexico  
				
				
				
				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  
				
				
				
				Campillaneros  
				  
				
				Can-Car 
				
				
				
				Caña  
				
				
				
				Candombe  
				
				
				
				Canon  
				
				
				
				Cante chico  
				
				
				
				Cante jondo  
				
				
				
				Canterbury Scene  
				
				
				
				Cantiñas  
				
				
				
				Cantiga -
				
				Portuguese
				
				ballad form  
				
				
				
				Cantique  
				
				
				
				Canto livre -
				
				Portuguese modernized
				
				fado  
				
				
				
				Canto nuevo -
				
				Bolivian pop-folk music which evolved out of
				
				Chilean
				
				nueva cancion  
				
				
				
				Canto popular - Uruguayan 
				singer-songwriter nativist music  
				
				
				
				Cantopop - western-style
				
				pop music from
				
				Hong Kong  
				
				
				
				Canzone napoletana - 
				urban songs from
				
				Naples  
				
				
				
				Capoeira music  
				
				
				
				Caracoles  
				
				
				
				Carceleras  
				
				
				
				Cardas  
				
				
				
				Caribbean  
				
				
				
				Carimbó -
				
				dance music of
				
				Belém,
				
				Brazil  
				
				
				
				Cariso  
				
				
				
				Carnatic music  
				
				
				
				Carol  
				
				
				
				Cartageneras  
				  
				
				Cas-Cav 
				
				
				
				Cassé-co  
				
				
				
				Cassette culture  
				
				
				
				Castilian  
				
				
				
				Cavacha  
				  
				
				Cc-Ce 
				
				CCM (Contemporary 
				Christian Music)  
				
				
				
				Celempungan  
				
				
				
				Cello rock  
				
				
				
				Celtic  
				
				
				
				Celtic fusion  
				
				
				
				Celtic metal  
				
				
				
				Celtic punk  
				
				
				
				Celtic reggae  
				
				
				
				Celtic rock 
				  
				
				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  
				
				
				
				Champloo  
				
				
				
				Changuí  
				
				
				
				Chanson  
				
				
				
				Charanga  
				
				
				
				Charanga-vallenato -
				
				1980s mixture of
				
				salsa,
				
				charanga and
				
				vallenata  
				
				
				
				Charikawi  
				
				
				
				Chastushki - humorous Russian folk songs  
				
				
				
				Chau van -
				
				Vietnamese
				
				trance music  
				  
				
				Che-Chi 
				
				
				
				Chemical breaks  
				
				
				
				Chèo  
				
				
				
				Chill-Out  
				
				
				
				Chicago house  
				
				
				
				Chicken scratch -
				
				Arizona-based
				
				Native American music  
				
				
				
				Chimurenga (mbira)  
				
				
				
				Chinese music  
				
				
				
				Chinese rock - rock and roll from China / Taiwan, often with 
				protest lyrics  
				
				
				
				Chip music  
				  
				
				Cho-Chr 
				
				
				
				Chongak -
				
				Korean aristocratic chamber music  
				
				
				
				Chouval bwa  
				
				
				
				Chowtal  
				
				
				
				Chicago blues  
				
				
				
				Chicago house  
				
				Chicago jazz (Dixieland 
				jazz)  
				
				
				
				Chicago soul  
				
				
				
				Chicha - a
				
				Peruvian fusion of
				
				rock and roll,
				
				cumbia and
				
				huayno  
				
				
				
				Cho-kantrum - the most 
				traditional form of
				
				Cambodian
				
				kantrum  
				
				
				
				Choctaw Social Dance
				 
				
				
				
				Chorinho  
				
				
				
				Choro - Brazilian
				
				folk music  
				
				
				
				Christian alternative  
				
				
				
				Christmas carol  
				  
				
				See also:
				
				List of Christmas carols
				 
				
				
				
				Christian Hardcore  
				
				
				
				Christian hip hop  
				
				
				
				Christian metal  
				
				
				
				Christian rock  
				
				
				
				Chylandyk - type of
				
				xoomii which sounds like the chirping of
				
				crickets  
				  
				
				Chu 
				
				
				
				Chumba  
				
				
				
				Chut-kai-pang  
				
				
				
				Chutney - popular
				
				Indo-Trinidadian 
				music  
				
				
				
				Chutney-bhangra 
				 
				
				
				
				Chutney-hip hop 
				 
				
				
				
				Chutney-soca -
				
				Chutney mixed with
				
				calypso and other influences  
				  
				
				Ci-Cl 
				
				
				
				Cigányzene  
				
				
				
				Cînd ciobanu s-i a pierdut oile
				 
				
				
				
				Cîntec batrînesc 
				 
				
				
				
				Ciobanul  
				
				
				
				Classic female blues - early popular form of
				
				blues  
				
				
				
				Classic metal  
				
				
				
				Classical music era (~1730-1820), for what's popularly known 
				as "classical music", see
				
				European classical music orList 
				of musical movements  
				
				
				
				Clicks n Cuts  
				
				
				
				Close harmony  
				  
				
				Coc-Cor 
				
				
				
				Cocobale  
				
				
				
				Coimbra fado - a form of refined
				
				fado from
				
				Coimbra,
				
				Portugal  
				
				
				
				Colombianas  
				
				
				
				Comedy rock  
				
				
				
				Comic opera  
				
				
				
				Comparsa  
				
				
				
				Compas direct  
				
				
				
				Compas meringue 
				 
				
				
				
				Concert overture  
				
				
				
				Concerto  
				
				
				
				Concerto grosso  
				
				
				
				Congo -
				
				Panamanian
				
				dance music  
				
				
				
				Congolese sound 
				 
				
				
				
				Conjunto  
				
				
				
				Contemporary Christian Music (CCM)  
				
				
				
				Contonbley  
				
				
				
				Contradanza  
				
				
				
				Cool jazz  
				
				
				
				Cocorrido  
				
				
				
				Coladeira  
				
				Coldwave (or
				
				industrial rock)  
				
				
				
				Combined Rhythm - music of the
				
				Dutch Antilles  
				
				
				
				Corsican polyphonic song
				 
				
				
				
				Cothoza mfana 
				  
				
				Cou-Cow 
				
				
				
				Country blues  
				
				
				
				Country music  
				
				
				
				Country rock  
				
				
				
				Countrypolitan  
				
				
				
				Couple de sonneurs - 
				Breton
				
				dance music  
				
				
				
				Cow punk  
				  
				
				Cr-Cu 
				
				
				
				Creative jazz  
				
				
				
				Creole  
				
				
				
				Crossover music  
				
				
				
				Crunk  
				
				
				
				Crust punk  
				
				
				
				Csárdás  
				
				
				
				Cuarteto - Argentinian
				
				folk music  
				
				
				
				Cueca  
				
				
				
				Cumbia - popular
				
				dance music, originally
				
				Colombian but now popular across
				
				Latin America, especially
				
				Mexico  
				
				
				
				Cumbia panameña -
				
				Panamanian
				
				cumbia  
				
				
				
				Cumfa  
				
				
				
				Cumbia villera - Argentinian type of cumbia which contains 
				marginal lyrics  
				
				
				
				Cyber grindgore 
				 
				
				  
				
				D 
				
				
				
				Da -
				
				De-Dh -
				
				Di-Dr -
				
				Du-Dz 
				  
				
				Da 
				
				
				
				Dabka (Dabke) -
				
				Palestinian
				
				dance music for
				
				weddings  
				
				
				
				Dadra  
				
				
				
				Daina -
				
				Latvian sung poetry  
				
				
				
				Daino -
				
				Lithuanian traditional music  
				
				
				
				Dalauna  
				
				
				
				Dance (musical form) - dance (form of musical composition)
				 
				
				
				
				Dance music - any
				
				rhythmic music intended for
				
				dancing  
				
				
				
				Dance-pop - comtemporary form of dance music with pop music 
				structures  
				
				
				
				Dance-punk  
				
				
				
				Dancehall  
				
				
				
				Dangdut - popular
				
				Indonesian dance music with influences from
				
				Arabic and
				
				Indian music  
				
				
				
				Danube New Wave - mixture 
				of Viennese
				
				schrammelmusik and American
				
				blues and
				
				rock and roll  
				
				
				
				Danza  
				
				
				
				Danzón  
				
				
				
				Dark ambient  
				
				
				
				Dark trance  
				
				
				
				Darkwave  
				
				
				
				Dementia - relating to the style of music popularized by the
				
				Dr. Demento Show  
				  
				
				De-Dh 
				
				
				
				De codru  
				
				
				
				De dragoste  
				
				
				
				De jale  
				
				
				
				De pahar  
				
				
				
				Deathcore  
				
				
				
				Death industrial  
				
				
				
				Death metal  
				
				
				
				Death rock (also known as
				
				death punk)  
				
				
				
				Death techno  
				
				
				
				Deblas  
				
				
				
				Deboche - Brazilian 
				fusion of electric
				
				frevo and
				
				ijexá  
				
				
				
				Décima  
				
				
				
				Degung  
				
				
				
				Delta blues  
				
				
				
				Deep house  
				
				
				
				Deep soul  
				
				
				
				Dementia  
				
				
				
				Desi -
				
				Indian
				
				folk music  
				
				
				
				Detroit blues  
				
				
				
				Detroit techno  
				
				
				
				Dhamar - a type of highly-oranemented
				
				dhrupad  
				
				
				
				Dhimotiká - traditional 
				Greek songs  
				
				
				
				Dhrupad -
				
				Hindustani
				
				vocal music performed by men singing in medieval
				
				Hindi  
				
				
				
				Dhun  
				  
				
				Di-Dr 
				
				
				
				Dialect rock - rock music sung in various Swiss-German 
				dialects  
				
				
				
				Digital hardcore  
				
				
				
				Din Dain- Ambient blues 
				trance  
				
				
				
				Dirge  
				
				
				
				Dirty rap  
				
				
				
				Dirty South (also known as Southern rap)  
				
				
				
				Disco  
				
				
				
				Disco house  
				
				
				
				Disco Polo -
				
				Polish nightclub dance music.  
				
				
				
				Dixieland jazz (Chicago jazz)  
				
				
				
				Djambadon  
				
				
				
				Dodompa -
				
				Japanese
				
				tango  
				
				
				
				Doina  
				
				
				
				Dombola  
				
				
				
				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  
				
				
				
				Dopé  
				
				
				
				Downtempo  
				
				
				
				Dream pop  
				
				
				
				Drill and bass  
				
				
				
				Dronology  
				
				
				
				Drum and bass (DNB) 
				  
				
				Du-Dz 
				
				
				
				Dub  
				
				
				
				Dub techno  
				
				
				
				Dubstep  
				
				
				
				Dunun - Yoruban
				
				drum music  
				
				
				
				Dunedin Sound - early
				
				1980s
				
				alternative rock sound based out of
				
				Dunedin, New Zealand and
				
				Flying Nun Records  
				
				
				
				Dutch jazz  
				
				
				
				Dutch trance  
				
				
				
				Dziesma  
				
				
				
				Dzoke - type of
				
				yang
				
				chanting  
				  
				
				E 
				
				
				
				Ea-En -
				
				Er-Ez 
				  
				
				Ea-En 
				
				
				
				Early music  
				
				
				
				East Coast blues  
				
				
				
				East Coast hip hop  
				
				
				
				Eastern Tradition of
				
				Sephardic music  
				
				
				
				Easy listening  
				
				
				
				Pasillo  
				
				
				
				Yaraví  
				
				
				
				Elafrolaïkó  
				
				
				
				Electric blues  
				
				
				
				Electric Fetus  
				
				
				
				Electro  
				
				
				
				Electro hop  
				
				
				
				Electroclash  
				
				
				
				Electrofunk  
				
				
				
				Electronic art music  
				
				
				
				Electronic body music (EBM, also known as industrial dance)
				 
				
				
				
				Electronic luk thung - 
				Dance-ready form of
				
				Thai
				
				pleng luk thung  
				
				
				
				Electronic music  
				
				
				
				Electronica  
				
				
				
				Electropop  
				
				
				
				Elektro  
				
				
				
				Elevator music (or
				
				Muzak)  
				
				
				
				Emeba  
				
				
				
				Emo  
				
				
				
				Endecasillabo - Central 
				Italian 11-syllabic song form  
				
				
				
				English funk  
				
				
				
				English madrigal 
				 
				
				
				
				Enka - Japanese pop music, using native forms  
				
				
				
				Éntekhno  
				  
				
				Ep-Ez 
				
				
				
				Eremwu eu  
				
				
				
				Euba  
				
				
				
				Eurobeat  
				
				
				
				Eurodance  
				
				
				
				Europop  
				
				
				
				Eurotrance (traditional dance music)  
				
				
				
				Exotica  
				
				
				
				Experimental music  
				
				
				
				Experimental noise  
				
				
				
				Experimental rock  
				
				
				
				Extreme Computer Music  
				
				
				
				Ezengileer - type of
				
				Tuvan
				
				xoomii said to imitate the trotting of horses  
				  
				
				F 
				
				
				
				Fa-Fr -
				
				Fu 
				
				Fa-Fr 
				
				
				
				F-Step - variant of 
				hardcore jungle with simultaneous, overlapping beats  
				
				
				
				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  
				
				
				
				Fjatpangarri - Aboriginal 
				Australian music local to
				
				Yirrbala  
				
				
				
				Flamenco -
				
				dance music of
				
				Spanish
				
				Gypsies  
				
				
				
				Foaie verde - classical 
				form of
				
				Romanian
				
				Gypsy
				
				doina  
				
				
				
				Fofa  
				
				
				
				Folk metal  
				
				
				
				Folk music  
				
				
				
				Folk pop  
				
				
				
				Folk punk  
				
				
				
				Folk rock  
				
				
				
				Folktronica  
				
				
				
				Fonn Mall  
				
				
				
				Forró - extremely popular music of Northeastern Brazil
				 
				
				
				
				Foxcore - a specific style of
				
				grunge played by all-female bands  
				
				
				
				Franco-country  
				
				
				
				Freakbeat  
				
				
				
				Freak-folk  
				
				
				
				Free improvisation - freeform musical improvisation 
				 
				
				
				
				Free jazz - improvised
				
				1960s
				
				jazz  
				
				
				
				Free music  
				
				
				
				Freestyle house - a cross-culture mix of 
				hip-hop/electro/house/pop  
				
				
				
				Freetekno  
				
				
				
				Frevo - folk music from
				
				Recife,
				
				Brazil  
				
				
				
				Fricote - dance music 
				from
				
				Salvador,
				
				Brazil  
				  
				
				Fu 
				
				
				
				Fuji -
				
				Yoruban vocal and percussion music  
				
				
				
				Fulia - Afro-Venezuelan 
				percussion music  
				
				
				
				Funacola  
				
				
				
				Funana  
				
				
				
				Funk - a bass-heavy outgrowth of
				
				soul music  
				
				
				
				Funk metal -
				
				1980s combination of
				
				funk,
				
				heavy metal and
				
				punk rock  
				
				
				
				Funky breaks - a type of
				
				breaks
				
				electronic music  
				
				
				
				Funky highlife - fusion 
				of
				
				funk and
				
				Ghanaian
				
				highlife  
				
				
				
				Furniture music -
				
				Erik Satie's invention of
				
				Background music  
				
				
				
				Fusion bhangra (New Wave 
				bhangra) -
				
				bhangra combined with
				
				rock and roll,
				
				reggae,
				
				hip hop,
				
				ragga and
				
				funk  
				
				
				
				Fusion jazz - mixture of rock and jazz  
				
				
				
				Future jazz  
				
				
				
				Futurepop - outgrowth of
				
				synthpop,
				
				EBM and
				
				darkwave  
				
				
				
				G-funk  
				  
				
				Gab-Gal 
				
				
				
				Gabber (also spelled as Gabba)  
				
				
				
				Gagá  
				
				
				
				Gagaku -
				
				Japanese classical music derived from ancient court 
				traditions  
				
				
				
				Gaikyoku  
				
				
				
				Gaita - Afro-Venezuelan form of percussion music  
				
				
				
				Galant  
				  
				
				Gam-Gan 
				
				
				
				Gamad -
				
				Malay-style ballad  
				
				
				
				Gambang kromong - 
				popular, highly-evolved form of
				
				kroncong, originally adapted for the theater  
				
				
				
				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 bang -
				
				Balinese sacred gamelan played for cremations  
				
				
				
				Gamelan buh -
				
				Balinese form of gamelan  
				
				
				
				Gamelan gede - ceremonial 
				gamelan from the temple of
				
				Bator  
				
				
				
				Gamelan kebyar - an energetic form of large
				
				Balinese
				
				gamelan  
				
				
				
				Gamelan salendro -
				
				gamelan
				
				dance music from
				
				Sunda, 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
				 
				
				
				
				Gammeldan  
				
				
				
				Gandrung -
				
				Osing music performed at weddings and other celebrations
				 
				
				
				
				Gangsta folk  
				
				
				
				Gangsta rap - American form of
				
				hip hop music which focuses on underground lifestyles and 
				illegal activities  
				  
				
				Gar-Gay 
				
				
				
				Gar -
				
				Tibetan classical music  
				
				
				
				Garage  
				
				
				
				Garage rock  
				
				
				
				Garage techno  
				
				
				
				Garrotin  
				
				
				
				Gavotte  
				
				
				
				Gay -
				
				Afro-Trinidadian
				
				call and response
				
				work song  
				  
				
				Ge-Gn 
				
				
				
				Gelugpa chanting - form 
				of Tibetan Buddhist chanting, very austere and restrained 
				 
				
				
				
				Gender wayang - Indonesion
				
				gamelan that accompanies shadow plays and other puppet plays
				 
				
				
				
				Gending - a distinct
				
				gamelan music from southern
				
				Sumatra  
				
				
				
				Gharbi  
				
				
				
				Gharnati  
				
				
				
				Ghazal - vocal form originally
				
				Persian but since spread to
				
				Central Asia,
				
				Iran,
				
				Turkey and
				
				India  
				
				
				
				Ghazal-song - a 
				modernized version of
				
				ghazal influenced by
				
				filmi  
				
				
				
				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 rock  
				
				
				
				Glitch  
				
				
				
				Gnawa  
				  
				
				Go-Gr 
				
				
				
				Go go  
				
				
				
				Goa (also known as Goa trance)  
				
				
				
				Golden Period of Karnatic classical 
				music - music composed by the legendary
				
				Trimurti  
				
				
				
				Goombay -
				
				Bahamanian
				
				percussion
				
				music  
				
				
				
				Goregrind  
				
				
				
				Gore Metal  
				
				
				
				Goshu ondo - a form of popularized
				
				Okinawan
				
				folk music  
				
				
				
				Gospel music  
				
				
				
				Gospel-soca  
				
				
				
				Gothenburg sound 
				 
				
				
				
				Gothic metal  
				
				
				
				Gothic rock  
				
				
				
				Granadinas  
				
				
				
				Gregorian chant (plainchant)  
				
				
				
				Grime - new Garage  
				
				
				
				Grindcore  
				
				
				
				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  
				  
				
				Gu-Gy 
				
				
				
				Guaguanbo  
				
				
				
				Guajira  
				
				
				
				Guitarra baiana - from
				
				Pernambuco, Brazil, a style of playing
				
				frevo using electric guitars  
				
				
				
				Guitarradas  
				
				
				
				Gumbe  
				
				
				
				Gunchei  
				
				
				
				Gunka -
				
				military marches with
				
				Japanese influences, created during the
				
				Meiji Restoration  
				
				
				
				Guoyue - invented conservatoire style of national
				
				Chinese music  
				
				
				
				Gwerz  
				
				
				
				Gwo ka -
				
				Guadeloupan
				
				percussion music  
				
				
				
				Gwo ka moderne - modernized
				
				gwo ka  
				
				
				
				Gypsy jazz  
				
				
				
				Gyu ke - form of Tibetan 
				Tantric
				
				chanting  
				  
				
				H 
				
				
				
				Ha -
				
				He-Ho -
				
				Hu-Hy 
				  
				
				Hab-Has 
				
				
				
				Habanera - Africanized
				
				danzón  
				
				
				
				Haiducesti  
				
				
				
				Hair metal  
				
				
				
				Hajnali - 
				Hungarian-Transylvanian
				
				wedding songs  
				
				
				
				Half calypso (semi-tone 
				calypso)  
				
				
				
				Hakka  
				
				
				
				Hambo  
				
				
				
				Hapa haole - a mixture of traditional Hawaiian music and 
				English lyrics  
				
				
				
				Happy hardcore  
				
				
				
				Haqibah  
				
				
				
				Hardcore  
				
				
				
				Hardcore hip hop  
				
				
				
				Hardcore punk  
				
				
				
				Hardcore techno  
				
				
				
				Hard bop (hard bebop)  
				
				
				
				Hard house  
				
				
				
				Hard rock  
				
				
				
				Hard Style  
				
				
				
				Hard techno  
				
				
				
				Hard trance  
				
				
				
				Harepa - harp-based music 
				of
				
				Pedi people of South Africa  
				
				
				
				Harmonica blues 
				 
				
				
				
				Hasaposérviko  
				  
				
				Hat-Haz 
				
				
				
				Hat cheo - an ancient form of
				
				Vietnamese stage
				
				opera  
				
				
				
				Hát a dào - (ca tru)
				
				Vietnamese
				
				folk music  
				
				
				
				Hát cai luong -
				
				Vietnamese popular
				
				opera  
				
				
				
				Hat chau van - a popular spiritual
				
				folk music of
				
				Vietnam  
				
				
				
				Hát tuông (Hát bôi) -
				
				Vietnamese operatic music  
				
				
				
				Hauntology  
				
				
				
				Hawaiian steel guitar - (kila 
				kila) invented by
				
				Joseph Kekuku, who slid a solid object across
				
				slacked guitar strings  
				
				
				
				Hawzi - evolved form of
				
				al-andalous classical 
				music which developed in
				
				Tlemcen  
				
				
				
				Hazzanut  
				  
				
				He-Ho 
				
				
				
				Heavy compas  
				
				
				
				Heavy dance  
				
				
				
				Heavy metal  
				
				
				
				Hesher  
				
				
				
				Hi-NRG  
				
				
				
				Highlands  
				
				
				
				Highlife  
				
				
				
				Highlife fusion 
				 
				
				
				
				Hillybilly music  
				
				
				
				Hiplife  
				
				
				
				Hip hop  
				
				
				
				Hip hop and soul (HNS)
				 
				
				
				
				Hip house  
				
				
				
				Hindustani classical music  
				
				
				
				Hiragasy  
				
				
				
				Hiva usu - unaccompanied 
				vocal Christian music of
				
				Tonga  
				
				
				
				Honky tonk  
				
				
				
				Honkyoku  
				
				
				
				Hora lunga  
				
				
				
				Hornpipes  
				
				
				
				Horror punk  
				
				
				
				Hot rod music  
				
				
				
				House music  
				  
				
				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  
				
				
				
				Hypnofolkadelia - see 
				Acid croft  
				
				
				
				Hymn  
				  
				
				I 
				
				
				
				Ibiza music  
				
				
				
				Ibo  
				
				Ice metal  
				
				
				
				Igbo-highlife  
				
				
				
				Ijexá  
				
				
				
				Ilahije  
				
				
				
				Illbient  
				
				
				
				Impressionist music  
				
				
				
				Incidental music  
				
				
				
				Indie rock  
				
				
				
				Indie pop  
				
				
				
				Indo jazz -
				
				jazz mixed with forms of
				
				Indian music  
				
				
				
				Indo rock  
				
				
				
				Indoyíftika  
				
				Industrial dance (or EBM,
				
				electronic body music)  
				
				
				
				Industrial music  
				
				
				
				Industrial musical (also known as corporate musical) 
				 
				
				
				
				Industrial metal  
				
				
				
				Industrial rock (or coldwave)  
				
				
				
				Instrumental pop 
				 
				
				
				
				Instrumental rock  
				
				
				
				Intelligent dance music (IDM, also known as intelligent 
				techno, listening techno or art techno)(Irish Folk Music) 
				 
				
				
				
				International Latin - pop ballads from various Latin 
				countries, especially
				
				Colombia  
				
				
				
				Inuit - music of the 
				Inuit  
				
				
				
				Irish folk  
				
				
				
				Iscathamiya  
				
				
				
				Isikhwela jo  
				
				
				
				Isolationist  
				
				
				
				Italo Disco -
				
				Italian nightclub music  
				
				
				
				Itsmeños -
				
				folk music of the
				
				Zapotecs of
				
				Mexico  
				
				
				
				Izvorna Bosanska muzika - 
				modernized folk music from
				
				Drina,
				
				Bosnia  
				  
				
				J 
				  
				
				
				
				Ja-Je -
				
				Ji-Ju 
				
				
				
				J-pop -
				
				Japanese
				
				bubblegum pop  
				  
				
				 Ja-Je
				
				
				
				Jaipongan - unpredictably rhythmic
				
				dance music from
				
				Sunda,
				
				Indonesia  
				
				
				
				Jaliscienses -
				
				Folk music of
				
				Jalisco,
				
				Mexico, and the origin of
				
				mariachi  
				
				
				
				Jam band  
				
				
				
				Jam rock  
				
				
				
				Jamana kura  
				
				
				
				Jamrieng samai  
				
				
				
				Jangle pop  
				
				
				
				Japanese pop - Japanese pop music using Western structures
				 
				
				
				
				Jarana  
				
				
				
				Jariang -
				
				Cambodian folk narratives  
				
				
				
				Jarochos - folk music from
				
				Veracruz,
				
				Mexico  
				
				
				
				Jawaiian -
				
				Hawaiian
				
				reggae  
				
				
				
				Jazz  
				
				
				
				Jazz blues  
				
				
				
				Jazz from night 
				 
				
				
				
				Jazz-funk  
				
				
				
				Jazz fusion  
				
				
				
				Jazz groove  
				
				
				
				Jazz rap  
				
				
				
				Jegog - Giant
				
				Bamboo ensemble of
				
				Bali,
				
				Indonesia  
				
				
				
				Jenkka  
				  
				
				Ji-Ju 
				
				
				
				Jibaro  
				
				
				
				Jig  
				
				
				
				Jing ping  
				
				
				
				Jingle - form of music used in television commercials 
				 
				
				
				
				Jit  
				
				
				
				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  
				
				
				
				J'Ouvert  
				
				
				
				Jug band  
				
				
				
				Juke joint blues 
				 
				
				
				
				Juju  
				
				
				
				Jump blues  
				
				
				
				Jungle  
				
				
				
				Junkanoo  
				
				
				
				Juré  
				  
				
				K 
				
				
				
				Ka -
				
				Ke-Kh -
				
				Ki-Kp -
				
				Kr-Kw 
				
				Ka 
				
				
				
				Käng  
				
				
				
				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  
				
				
				
				Kagyupa chanting - form 
				of Tibetan Buddhist
				
				chanting  
				
				
				
				Kaiso  
				
				
				
				Kalamatianó  
				
				
				
				Kalattuut -
				
				Inuit
				
				polka  
				
				
				
				Kalinda (kalenda, ti kannot)  
				
				
				
				Kamba pop  
				
				
				
				Kan ha diskan  
				
				
				
				Kansas City blues  
				
				
				
				Kantádhes  
				
				
				
				Kantrum  
				
				
				
				Kargyraa  
				
				
				
				Karma  
				
				
				
				Kaseko -
				
				Surinamese
				
				folk music  
				
				
				
				Katcharsee - lively, celebratory Okinawan folk music 
				 
				
				
				
				Kattajjaq - competitive
				
				Inuit
				
				throat singing  
				
				
				
				Kawachi ondo - a form of modernized
				
				Okinawan
				
				folk music  
				
				
				
				Kayokyoku - traditionally-structured Japanese pop music
				 
				  
				
				Ke-Kh 
				
				
				
				Ke-kwe 
				
				
				
				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  
				
				
				
				Khplam wai - a type of
				
				mor lam with a slow tempo which originated in
				
				Luang Prabang,
				
				Laos  
				
				
				
				Khelimaski djili - 
				Hungarian Gypsy dance songs
				
				Khene  
				
				
				
				Khrung sai - type of
				
				Thai classical music 
				
				
				
				Khyal -
				
				Hindustani
				
				vocal music that is informal, partially improvised and very 
				popular  
				
				
				
				Khoomei  
				
				
				
				Khorovodi -
				
				Russian
				
				dance music  
				  
				
				Ki-Kp 
				
				
				
				Kĩkũyũ pop  
				
				
				
				Kilapanda  
				
				
				
				Kinko  
				
				
				
				Kirtan  
				
				
				
				Kiwi rock  
				
				
				
				Kizomba  
				
				
				
				Klape -
				
				Dalmatian male choir music  
				
				
				
				Klasik  
				
				
				
				Kléftiko  
				
				
				
				Klezmer  
				
				
				
				Kliningan  
				
				
				
				Kochare - Armenian folk 
				dance  
				
				
				
				Kolomyjka  
				
				
				
				Komagaku  
				
				
				
				Konpa  
				
				
				
				Koumpaneia - Greek Gypsy 
				music  
				
				
				
				Kpanlogo  
				  
				
				Kr-Kw 
				
				
				
				Krakowiak  
				
				
				
				Krautrock  
				
				
				
				Krill Krill  
				
				
				
				Kriti (krithi) - a
				
				Hindui
				
				hymn  
				
				
				
				Kroncong - popular
				
				Indonesian music with strong
				
				Portuguese influence  
				
				
				
				Krzesany  
				
				
				
				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  
				
				
				
				Kun-borrk  
				
				
				
				Kundere  
				
				
				
				Kundiman - traditional
				
				Filipino songs adapted to Western song structure  
				
				
				
				Kussundé  
				
				
				
				Kutumba wake  
				
				
				
				Kvæði  
				
				
				
				Kveding - traditional 
				Norwegian songs  
				
				
				
				Kwaito  
				
				
				
				Kwassa kwassa  
				
				
				
				Kwela  
				  
				
				L 
				
				
				
				La -
				
				Le-Lo -
				
				Lu 
				
				La 
				
				
				
				La la -
				
				Louisianan
				
				Creole music  
				
				
				
				Laba laba  
				
				
				
				Laïkó  
				
				
				
				Lai  
				
				
				
				Lam  
				
				
				
				Lam saravane -
				
				Laotian ensemble music from a town of the same name in 
				southern Laos  
				
				
				
				Lam sing  
				
				
				
				Lambada -
				
				Bolivian and
				
				Brazilian
				
				dance music which arose from
				
				sayas and became 
				internationally popular in the1980s
				 
				
				
				
				Lancer  
				
				
				
				Langgam jawa - type of
				
				kroncong mixed with
				
				gamelan, popular around
				
				Solo,
				
				Indonesia  
				
				
				
				Laremuna wadauman 
				 
				
				
				
				Latin jazz -
				
				jazz mixed with
				
				Latin musical forms like
				
				bossa nova or
				
				salsa  
				
				
				
				Lavlu  
				
				
				
				Lavway  
				
				  
				
				Le-Lo 
				
				
				
				Le leagan  
				
				
				
				Legényes -
				
				Hungarian-Transylvanian 
				men's dance  
				
				
				
				Letkajenkka  
				
				
				
				Lhamo - form of
				
				Tibetan
				
				opera  
				
				
				
				Liedermacher  
				
				
				
				Likanos  
				
				
				
				Light Music - 20th Century light orchestral music (mainly 
				British)  
				
				
				
				Light Music (Nepalese) -
				
				Nepalese
				
				pop music, blending traditional styles, Western pop and
				
				Indian
				
				filmi  
				
				
				
				Line dance  
				
				
				
				Liquindi  
				
				
				
				Llanera -
				
				Venezuelan music  
				
				
				
				Llanto - a
				
				flamenco-influenced genre of
				
				Panamanian
				
				folk music  
				
				
				
				Lo-fi  
				
				
				
				Lo-pop
				
				Pop or
				
				Disco with extrerme cheap touch  
				
				
				
				Loki djili - traditional 
				Hungarian Gypsy songs  
				
				
				
				Long-song - traditional
				
				Mongolian slow songs  
				
				
				
				Louisiana blues  
				
				
				
				Lounge music  
				
				
				
				Lovers rai  
				
				
				
				Lovers rock  
				
				
				
				Lowercase - see
				
				Lowercase (music)  
				  
				
				Lu 
				
				
				
				Lu - unaccompanied
				
				Tibetan
				
				folk music  
				
				
				
				Lubbock country music
				 
				
				
				
				Lucknavi thumri - a type 
				of
				
				thumri from
				
				Lucknow  
				
				
				
				Luhya omutibo  
				
				
				
				Luk grung - Popular
				
				Thai music from the early
				
				20th century  
				
				
				
				Lullaby  
				
				
				
				Lundu  
				
				
				
				Lundum  
				  
				
				M 
				
				
				
				Ma -
				
				Mb-Mg -
				
				Mi -
				
				Min-Mir -
				
				Mo-Mp -
				
				Mu 
				
				
				
				M-Base  
				  
				
				 Mad-Mam
				
				
				
				Madchester  
				
				
				
				Madrigal  
				
				
				
				Mafioso hip hop 
				 
				
				
				
				Maglaal (tuuli) 
				 
				
				
				
				Magnificat  
				
				
				
				Mahori - type of
				
				Thai classical music  
				
				
				
				Makossa  
				
				
				
				Makossa-soukous 
				 
				
				
				
				Malagueñas  
				
				
				
				Malawian jazz  
				
				
				
				Maloya  
				
				
				
				Maluf - evolved form of
				
				al-andalous classical 
				music which developed in
				
				Constantine, Algeria  
				
				
				
				Mambo  
				  
				
				Man-Map 
				
				
				
				Manaschi -
				
				Kyrgyz
				
				folk music made by travelling musicians also called 
				manaschi  
				
				
				
				Mandarin pop - early
				
				Taiwanese pop sung in Mandarin and popular with young 
				listeners  
				
				
				
				Manding swing  
				
				
				
				Mangulina  
				
				
				
				Manikay  
				
				
				
				Manila sound - Early
				
				1970s development in
				
				Pinoy rock which mixed Tagalog and English lyrics 
				 
				
				
				
				Manouche  
				
				
				
				Manzuma  
				
				
				
				Mapouka  
				
				
				
				Mapouka-serré  
				
				maluka 
				  
				
				Mar-Maz 
				
				
				
				Marabi  
				
				
				
				Maracatu - African and Portuguese music popular around
				
				Recife,
				
				Brazil  
				
				
				
				Marching music 
				 
				
				
				
				Marga -
				
				Indian classical music  
				
				
				
				Mariachi -
				
				pop form of
				
				son
				
				jalisciense  
				
				
				
				Marimba  
				
				
				
				Maritime folk  
				
				
				
				Marrabenta  
				
				
				
				Marrabenta rap 
				 
				
				
				
				Maskanda - popularized Zulu-traditional music  
				
				
				
				Mass  
				
				
				
				Martinetes  
				
				
				
				Matamuerte  
				
				
				
				Mathcore  
				
				
				
				Math rock  
				
				
				
				Mazurka  
				  
				
				Mb-Mg 
				
				
				
				Mbalax  
				
				
				
				Mbaqanga (township jive)  
				
				Mbira (Chimurenga)
				 
				
				
				
				Mbube  
				
				
				
				Mbumba  
				
				
				
				Medh  
				
				
				
				Meditation  
				
				
				
				Medieval music  
				
				
				
				Mejorana  
				
				
				
				Melhoun  
				
				
				
				Melhûn  
				
				
				
				Melodic Death Metal  
				
				
				
				Melodic trance  
				
				
				
				Memphis blues  
				
				
				
				Memphis rap  
				
				
				
				Memphis soul  
				
				
				
				Mento  
				
				
				
				Merengue  
				
				
				
				Merengue típico moderno
				 
				
				
				
				Merengue-bomba -
				
				Puerto Rican fusion of
				
				bomba and
				
				merengue  
				
				
				
				Méringue  
				
				
				
				Meringue  
				
				
				
				Merseybeat  
				
				
				
				Metal  
				
				
				
				Metalcore  
				
				
				
				Mexican son - a broad 
				group of
				
				Mexican
				
				folk music  
				
				
				
				Meyjana  
				  
				
				Mia-Mil 
				
				
				
				Miami bass (booty bass) (Bass 
				music)  
				
				
				
				Microhouse  
				
				
				
				Milo jazz  
				
				
				
				Mini compas  
				
				
				
				Mini jazz  
				
				
				
				Minuet  
				
				
				
				Missouri harmony 
				 
				
				
				
				Miami Sound - a popular 
				form of
				
				salsa music  
				
				
				
				Milongas  
				  
				
				Min-Mir 
				
				
				
				Min'yo -
				
				Japanese
				
				folk music  
				
				
				
				Mineras  
				
				
				
				Mini-jazz -
				
				Caribbean
				
				jazz  
				
				
				
				Minimalist music  
				
				
				
				Minimalist trance  
				
				
				
				Minstrel show  
				
				
				
				Minneapolis sound  
				
				
				
				Mirabras  
				
				
				
				Mirolóyia  
				  
				
				Mo-MP 
				
				
				
				Modinha  
				
				
				
				Modern classical music  
				
				
				
				Modern rock  
				
				
				
				Modinha  
				
				
				
				Mohabelo - 
				neo-traditional music from South Africa and Lesotho  
				
				
				
				Mor lam -
				
				Laotian ensemble music for vocals with accompaniment 
				 
				
				
				
				Mor lam sing - popular form of Laotian traditional music 
				developed by Laotians in Thailand  
				
				
				
				Morna  
				
				
				
				Motown  
				
				
				
				Mozambique  
				
				
				
				MPB (música popular brasileira) - catch-all term for 
				multiple varieties of Brazilian pop music  
				  
				
				Mu 
				
				
				
				Mugam - classical music of
				
				Azerbaijan, featuring sung poetry and instrumental passages
				 
				
				
				
				Muntuno  
				
				
				
				Murga -
				
				Uruguayan street carnival dance with heavy percussion, also 
				popular in
				
				Argentina.  
				
				
				
				Musette  
				
				
				
				Music drama  
				
				
				
				Music Hall  
				
				
				
				Música campesina - Cuban 
				rural music  
				
				
				
				Música criolla - a coastal
				
				Peruvian music from the early
				
				20th century, consisting of a variety of Western fusions
				 
				
				
				
				Música de la interior - 
				indigenous
				
				folk music from
				
				Colombia  
				
				
				
				Música llanera -
				
				harp-based form of folk music from
				
				Los Llanos,
				
				Colombia  
				
				
				
				Música nordestina - 
				Northeast Brazilian popular music, centered around
				
				Recife  
				
				
				
				Música tropical - a form of
				
				Colombian
				
				salsa music  
				
				
				
				Musiqi-e assil - Persian classical music  
				
				
				
				Musique concrète (also known as
				
				electroacoustic music)  
				
				
				
				Mutuashi  
				
				
				
				Muwashshah  
				
				
				
				Muzak (or
				
				elevator music)  
				  
				
				N 
				
				
				
				Na trapeza - 
				Greek-Turkish slow songs  
				
				
				
				Nagauta -
				
				Japanese style of
				
				shamisen-playing  
				
				
				
				Naghmehs  
				
				
				
				Nakasi -
				
				Taiwanese musical form  
				
				
				
				Naked funk  
				
				
				
				Nangma -
				
				Tibetan
				
				dance music  
				
				
				
				Nanguan -
				
				Taiwanese instrumental music  
				
				
				
				Narcocorrido - Spanish for "Drug ballad", this Mexican 
				music's theme was equivalent to
				
				gangster rap  
				
				
				
				Narodna muzika -
				
				Serbian 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  
				
				
				
				Native American gospel -
				
				gospel music performed by
				
				Native Americans  
				
				
				
				Nederpop - popular
				
				music of the Netherlands, especially in the
				
				Dutch language  
				
				
				
				Néo kýma  
				
				
				
				Neofolk - a form of folk music that emerged from European 
				ideals and post-industrial music  
				
				
				
				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 hiphop  
				
				
				
				Neue Deutsche Welle - a kind of
				
				German
				
				New Wave music  
				
				  
				
				
				
				Neue Volksmusik 
				 
				
				
				
				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 contemporary brass band
				 
				
				
				
				New Orleans jazz  
				
				
				
				New Romantic - popular British
				
				New Wave from the early
				
				1980s  
				
				
				
				New rumba  
				
				
				
				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 bhangra (Fusion 
				bhangra)  
				
				
				
				New Wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) - mid- to late
				
				1970s
				
				heavy metal coming out of the
				
				UnitedKingdom  
				
				
				
				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 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  
				
				
				
				Newgrass - progressive
				
				bluegrass  
				
				
				
				Nganja  
				
				
				
				Nhac dan toc cai bien - 
				modernized forms of
				
				Vietnamese
				
				folk music which arose in the
				
				1950s  
				
				
				
				Nhac tai tu -
				
				Vietnamese
				
				chamber music which accompanies
				
				cai luong  
				
				
				
				Nha Nac  
				
				  
				
				
				
				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 - style of avant-garde music, most closely 
				associated with Japan  
				
				
				
				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 harmony 
				 
				
				
				
				Northern Soul - late 1960s variety of
				
				soul music from northern England  
				
				
				
				Northumbrian smallpipe music
				 
				
				
				
				Nota  
				
				
				
				Nova canção - popular
				
				1950s and
				
				60s
				
				fado in
				
				Portugal and folk-based singer-songwriters in
				
				Spain  
				
				
				
				Novokomponovana narodna muzika 
				- modernized Serbian folk music  
				
				
				
				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-NRG - a harder and faster version of
				
				Hi-NRG  
				
				
				
				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  
				
				
				
				Nyingmapa chanting - form 
				of highly rhythmic and elaborate Tibetan Buddhist
				
				chanting  
				  
				
				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 country 
				 
				
				
				
				Old-time - archaic term for many different styles that were 
				an outgrowth of
				
				Appalachian folk music and fed into
				
				country music  
				
				
				
				Olonkho -
				
				Yakut epic songs  
				
				
				
				Oltului  
				
				
				
				Omutibo  
				
				
				
				Ondo  
				
				
				
				On ikki muqam -
				
				Uyghur classical music suite in 12 parts  
				
				
				
				Oom pah band  
				
				
				
				Opera - theatrical performances in which all or most 
				dialogue is sung with musical accompaniment  
				
				
				
				Oratorical calypso 
				 
				
				
				
				Oratorio - similar to
				
				opera but without scenery, costumes or acting  
				
				
				
				Orchestra - a large ensemble, especially one used to played
				
				European classical music  
				
				
				
				Orchestre  
				
				
				
				Organic ambient - often acoustic
				
				ambient music which uses instruments and styles borrowed 
				from
				
				world music  
				
				
				
				Organic house  
				
				
				
				Organum -
				
				Middle Ages
				
				polyphonic music  
				
				
				
				Oriental Foxtrot 
				 
				
				
				
				Oriental metal -
				
				Israeli fusion of
				
				death and
				
				doom metal  
				
				
				
				Orovela - eastern
				
				Georgian
				
				work songs  
				
				
				
				Orgel (Organ
				
				Orgue) -
				
				keyboard instrument with/without
				
				pedals  
				
				
				
				Orquestas Tejanas 
				 
				
				
				
				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  
				
				
				
				Özgün  
				
				
				
				Ozwodna  
				  
				
				P 
				
				
				
				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  
				
				
				
				Pagode -
				
				Brazilian style of music which originated in the
				
				Rio de Janeiro region  
				
				
				
				Padams  
				
				
				
				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  
				
				
				
				Palos  
				
				
				
				Panambih -
				
				tembang sunda that uses metered poetry  
				
				
				
				Panchai baja -
				
				Nepalese
				
				wedding
				
				music  
				
				
				
				Pansori -
				
				Korean
				
				folk music played by a singer and a drummer  
				
				
				
				Parisian soukous 
				 
				
				
				
				Parranda - Afro-Venezuelan 
				form of music  
				
				
				
				Parody - humorous renditions of various songs  
				
				
				
				Payada de contrapunto
				 
				
				
				
				Pambiche (Merengue estilo yanqui)  
				
				
				
				Paranda -
				
				Garifuna music of Belize  
				
				
				
				Parang -
				
				Trinidadian
				
				Christmas carols  
				
				
				
				Partido alto  
				
				
				
				El pasacalle  
				
				
				
				Paseo (music)  
				
				
				
				Pasillo  
				
				
				
				Peace Punk  
				
				 Pedo 
				punk  
				
				  
				
				
				
				Pelimanni music - Finnish folk
				
				dance music  
				
				
				
				Pennywhistle jive 
				 
				
				
				
				Peroveta anedia 
				 
				
				
				
				Petenera  
				
				
				
				Peyote Song - a mixture of
				
				gospel and traditional
				
				Native American music  
				
				
				
				Philadelphia soul - soft
				
				1970s soul that came out of
				
				Philadelphia,
				
				Pennsylvania  
				
				
				
				Phleng luk tung 
				 
				
				
				
				Piano blues  
				
				
				
				Piano rock  
				
				
				
				Piedmont blues  
				
				
				
				Pineal Polka  
				
				
				
				Pinoy rock -
				
				rock and roll sung in
				
				Tagalog from the
				
				Philippines  
				
				
				
				Pinpeat orchestra  
				
				
				
				Piphat - ancient form of
				
				Thai classical ensemble  
				
				
				
				Pirekaus - traditional 
				love songs of the
				
				Purépecha of
				
				Mexico  
				
				
				
				Pisiq -
				
				Greenlandic folk song  
				
				
				
				Pixiefunk - fusion of 
				funk,afrobeat,celtic balad,pop-rock,drum'n'bass and jungle. 
				Usually performed live and free style. Origin: London 
				 
				
				
				
				Piyyutim  
				
				  
				
				
				
				Plachi - melancholic 
				Russian folk songs  
				
				
				
				Plainchant (Gregorian chant)  
				
				
				
				Plena  
				
				
				
				Pleng phua cheewit -
				
				Thai protest rock  
				
				
				
				Pleng Thai sakorn - a
				
				Thai interpretation of Western
				
				classical music  
				
				
				
				Poco-poco -
				
				Indonesian modern music which fuses
				
				disco with eastern Indonesian dance music  
				
				
				
				Polihet  
				
				
				
				Political Grindcore
				 
				
				
				
				Polka  
				
				
				
				Polo  
				
				
				
				Polonaise  
				
				
				
				Pols -
				
				Danish
				
				fiddle and
				
				accordion
				
				dance music  
				
				
				
				Polska  
				
				
				
				Pong lang  
				
				
				
				Pop folk  
				
				
				
				Pop-makossa  
				
				
				
				Pop melayu -
				
				Malay pop music with
				
				dangdut overlay  
				
				
				
				Pop mop -
				
				Mongolian
				
				pop music  
				
				
				
				Pop music  
				
				
				
				Pop punk  
				
				
				
				Pop rai  
				
				  
				
				
				
				Pop sunda -
				
				Sundanese mixture of
				
				gamelan degung and
				
				pop music structures  
				
				
				
				Popular music  
				
				
				
				Porngroove - A variation 
				on Funk-Hop with a distinctive emphasis on 'Bow Chicka Bow Wow' 
				pioneeredby Northwood Hills super group GGNXTMAP  
				
				
				
				Pornocore  
				
				
				
				Porro - Colombian big band music  
				
				
				
				Portuguese Shangaan - 
				South African and Mozambiquan mixture of traditional
				
				Tsonga and Portuguese music  
				
				
				
				Post-hardcore  
				
				
				
				Post-minimalism  
				
				
				
				Post punk  
				
				
				
				Post-rock  
				
				
				
				Post-romanticism  
				
				
				
				Power electronics  
				
				
				
				Power metal  
				
				
				
				Power noise (or rhythmic noise)  
				
				
				
				Power pop  
				
				
				
				Pow-wow - Native American dance music  
				
				
				
				Ppongtchak - Korean
				
				pop music developed during the Japanese occupation 
				 
				
				
				
				Praise song  
				
				  
				
				
				
				Pre-Computer  
				
				
				
				Prison metal  
				
				
				
				Program symphony 
				 
				
				
				
				Progressive Acoustic Urban Math Folk
				 
				
				
				
				Progressive electronic music  
				
				
				
				Progressive house  
				
				
				
				Progressive metal  
				
				
				
				Progressive bluegrass  
				
				
				
				Progressive rock  
				
				
				
				Progressive trance  
				
				
				
				Protopunk  
				
				
				
				Psychedelic music  
				
				
				
				Psych folk or
				
				Psychedelic folk  
				
				
				
				Psychedelic trance (Psy-trance)  
				
				
				
				Psychobilly  
				
				
				
				Psychosomatic trance
				 
				
				
				
				Psych-pop  
				
				
				
				Punjabi thumri - a type 
				of
				
				thumri from
				
				Punjab  
				
				
				
				Punk Cabaret - a fusion 
				of musical theater and cabaret style music with the aggressive, 
				raw nature of punk rock.  
				
				
				
				Punk rock  
				
				
				
				Punta  
				
				
				
				Punta rock -
				
				1970s
				
				Belizean music  
				  
				
				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 since updated for mainstream audiences, 
				originally developed in
				
				Pakistan  
				
				
				
				Quadrille  
				
				
				
				Queercore  
				
				
				
				Quiet Storm 
				  
				
				R 
				
				
				
				Rada  
				
				
				
				Raga rock -
				
				Swiss
				
				soul, rock and
				
				Indian music fusion  
				
				
				
				Ragas  
				
				
				
				Raggamuffin (Ragga)  
				
				
				
				Ragga-chutney  
				
				
				
				Ragga-soca  
				
				
				
				Ragga-zouk - a fusion of
				
				reggae,
				
				dub music and
				
				zouk  
				
				
				
				Ragtime  
				
				Rainbow Rave  
				
				
				
				Rai -
				
				Algerian
				
				folk music now developed into a popular style  
				
				
				
				Rake-and-scrape - Bahamanian instrumental music  
				
				
				
				Rambutan  
				
				
				
				Ramkbach  
				
				
				
				Ramvong  
				
				
				
				Ranchera -
				
				pop
				
				mariachi from
				
				1950s
				
				film
				
				soundtracks  
				
				
				
				Random dance  
				
				Rap (hip 
				hop)  
				
				
				
				Rap dogba  
				
				  
				
				
				
				Rap metal  
				
				
				
				Rapcore  
				
				
				
				Rapso  
				
				
				
				Rara  
				
				
				
				Rare groove  
				
				
				
				Rasiya  
				
				
				
				Rateliai  
				
				
				
				Rave  
				
				
				
				Rebetiko  
				
				
				
				Rebita  
				
				
				
				reel  
				
				
				
				Reggae  
				
				
				
				Reggae highlife  
				
				
				
				Reggaeton  
				
				
				
				Reinlender  
				
				
				
				Rekilaulu -
				
				Finnish rhyming sleigh songs  
				
				
				
				Rembetiko  
				
				
				
				Renaissance music  
				
				
				
				Rhapsody  
				
				
				
				Rhyming spiritual - Bahamanian hymns  
				
				
				
				Rhythm and blues (R&B)  
				
				Rhythmic noise (or
				
				power noise)  
				
				  
				
				
				
				Ricercar  
				
				
				
				Rímur -
				
				Icelandic heroic
				
				epic songs  
				
				
				
				Ring Bang - the
				
				Barbadian sound of
				
				soca  
				
				
				
				Riot grrl  
				
				
				
				Rock  
				
				
				
				Rock opera  
				
				
				
				Rock and roll  
				
				
				
				Rock en espanol  
				
				
				
				Rockabilly  
				
				
				
				Rocksteady  
				
				
				
				Rococo  
				
				
				
				Rodeo music  
				
				
				
				Rokon fada  
				
				
				
				Romantic period in music  
				
				
				
				Romeras  
				
				
				
				Rondeaux  
				
				
				
				Ronggeng - a
				
				folk music from
				
				Malacca,
				
				Malaysia  
				
				
				
				Roots reggae  
				
				
				
				Roots rock  
				
				
				
				Roots rock reggae  
				
				
				
				Ruem trosh -
				
				Cambodian traditional music  
				
				
				
				Rumba  
				
				
				
				Rumba gitana - French 
				Gypsy music  
				
				
				
				Runddan  
				
				
				
				Runolaulu -
				
				Finnish folk songs  
				
				
				
				Runo-song -
				
				Estonian
				
				folk music 
				  
				
				S 
				
				
				
				Sabar - drumming style fond in
				
				Senegal  
				
				
				
				Sacred Harp 
				
				
				
				Sadcore 
				
				
				
				Saetas 
				
				
				
				Saibara  
				
				
				
				Saiyidi - folk music of 
				the upper
				
				Nile Delta  
				
				
				
				Sakyapa chanting - form 
				of Tibetan Buddhist chanting  
				
				
				
				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 gorda  
				
				
				
				Salsa romantica - a soft, romantic form of
				
				salsa music  
				
				
				
				Saltarello  
				
				
				
				Salve  
				
				
				
				Samba - form of Brazilian popular music  
				
				
				
				Samba-reggae - a genre of
				
				samba with a choppy,
				
				reggae-like rhythm.
				
				samba and
				
				reggae fusion  
				
				
				
				Samba de breque - 
				traditional
				
				samba with social humorous comentaries and characterized by 
				a silence break (hence, "breque") of 2 compass or more, while 
				the singer keeps the lyrics*  
				
				
				
				Samba-canção - traditional samba in slow
				
				tempo and with romantic lyrics. influenced by
				
				bolero  
				
				
				
				Samba de enredo(or
				
				Samba-enredo) -
				
				Samba played during
				
				Carnival celebrations in fast
				
				tempo  
				
				
				
				Samba de pagode - popular 
				dance-oriented samba. (pagode is an informal gathering of 
				neighbours and relatives in spare time for dance and meal).
				 
				
				
				
				Sambai  
				
				
				
				Sangeo - Afro-Venezuelan 
				form of percussion music  
				
				
				
				Sanjo -
				
				Korean instrumental
				
				folk music  
				
				
				
				Sanjuanitos  
				
				
				
				Sarandunga  
				
				
				
				Sardinian polyphonic chanting
				 
				
				
				
				Sato kagura  
				
				
				
				Sawahili - folk music 
				from the Mediterranean coast of Egypt  
				
				
				
				Sawt - urban music from
				
				Kuwait and
				
				Bahrain  
				
				
				
				Sax jive  
				
				
				
				Sayas -
				
				Bolivian
				
				dance music which was popularized as
				
				lambada in the 1980s  
				
				
				
				Sazdohol  
				
				
				
				Scandinavian metal (Viking metal)  
				
				
				
				Scenecore  
				
				
				
				Schottisch  
				
				
				
				Schranz  
				
				
				
				Scrumpy and Western - folk music from
				
				West Country of England  
				
				
				
				Sea shanty  
				
				
				
				Sean nós  
				
				
				
				Second Viennese School  
				
				
				
				Sega music  
				
				
				
				Seggae  
				
				
				
				Seis  
				
				
				
				Semba  
				
				Semi-tone calypso (Half 
				calypso)  
				
				
				
				Sephardic music  
				
				
				
				Serialism  
				
				
				
				Serrana  
				
				
				
				Set dance  
				
				
				
				Sevdalinka -
				
				Bosnian urban popular music  
				
				
				
				Sevillana  
				
				
				
				Shabab  
				
				
				
				Shabad  
				
				
				
				Shalako - Armenian folk dance  
				
				
				
				Shan'ge -
				
				Taiwanese
				
				Hakka mountain songs  
				
				
				
				Shango  
				
				
				
				Shape note  
				
				
				
				Sharkan - American 
				Christian
				
				chanting  
				
				
				
				Shawm and drum - 
				Instrumental pairing common in
				
				Gypsy music  
				
				
				
				Shlager  
				
				
				
				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  
				
				
				
				Shin-min'yo - a 
				modernized form of
				
				min'yo, or
				
				folk music  
				
				
				
				Shoegazing  
				
				
				
				Shoka -
				
				Japanese songs written during the
				
				Meiji Restoration to bring Western music to Japanese schools
				 
				
				
				
				Shomyo -
				
				Japanese
				
				Buddhist
				
				chanting  
				
				
				
				Showtunes  
				
				
				
				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  
				
				
				
				Singers & Standards
				 
				
				
				
				Singer-songwriter  
				
				
				
				Single tone calypso
				 
				
				
				
				Sinjonjo  
				
				
				
				Sizhu -
				
				folk ensembles from southern
				
				China  
				
				
				
				Ska  
				
				
				
				Ska punk  
				
				
				
				Skacore (third wave of ska)  
				
				
				
				Skald  
				
				
				
				Skate punk  
				
				
				
				Skiffle  
				
				
				
				Skotsploech - traditional
				
				Frisian ensemble music  
				
				
				
				Skillingstryk  
				
				
				
				Slack-key guitar (kihoalu) -
				
				Hawaiian form invented by retuning open strings on a guitar
				 
				
				
				
				Slängpolska  
				
				
				
				Slide  
				
				
				
				Slow airs  
				
				
				
				Slowcore  
				
				
				
				Sludge metal  
				
				
				
				Smooth jazz  
				
				
				
				Snugglemo  
				
				
				
				S'o wa mbe  
				
				
				
				Soca  
				
				
				
				Soca-bhangra  
				
				
				
				Soca-funk  
				
				
				
				Soft ambient  
				
				
				
				Soft rock  
				
				
				
				Solea (soleares) 
				 
				
				
				
				Sombient  
				
				
				
				Son  
				
				
				
				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  
				
				
				
				Sonido  
				
				
				
				Soukous  
				
				
				
				Soul blues  
				
				
				
				Soul jazz  
				
				
				
				Soul music  
				
				
				
				Southern Harmony  
				
				
				
				Southern hip hop  
				
				
				
				Southern rock  
				
				
				
				Southern soul  
				
				
				
				Space age pop  
				
				
				
				Space music  
				
				
				
				Space rock  
				
				
				
				Spacesynth  
				
				
				
				Spazzjazz  
				
				
				
				Spectralism  
				
				
				
				Speedcore  
				
				
				
				Speed garage  
				
				
				
				Speed metal  
				
				
				
				Spirituals  
				
				
				
				Spouge -
				
				Barbadian
				
				folk music  
				
				
				
				Square dance  
				
				
				
				St. Louis blues  
				
				
				
				St. Louis soul 
				 
				
				
				
				Stambolovski orkestri
				 
				
				
				
				Staroprazske pisnieky - 
				pub songs from
				
				Prague  
				
				
				
				Steelband  
				
				
				
				Stev - short, often 
				improvised, Norwegian folk songs  
				
				
				
				Stoner metal  
				
				
				
				Straight edge  
				
				
				
				Strathspeys  
				
				
				
				Street songs - bawdy 
				adolescent chants of unknown authorship  
				
				
				
				Stride  
				
				
				
				String - 1980s
				
				Thai
				
				pop music  
				
				
				
				String quartet  
				
				
				
				Stubenmusik -
				
				Bavarian
				
				string ensembles  
				
				
				
				Suite  
				
				
				
				Suomirock  
				
				
				
				Suomitrance  
				
				
				
				Super Eurobeat  
				
				
				
				Surf ballads  
				
				
				
				Surf instrumental  
				
				
				
				Surf music  
				
				
				
				Surf pop  
				
				
				
				Surf rock  
				
				
				
				Surgery metal  
				
				
				
				Sutartines  
				
				
				
				Swahili sound  
				
				
				
				Sway  
				
				
				
				Swamp blues  
				
				
				
				Swamp pop  
				
				
				
				Swingbeat (New Jack Swing, New Jack R&B)
				 
				
				
				
				Swing music  
				
				
				
				Sygyt - type of
				
				xoomii (Tuvan
				
				throat singing), likened to the sound of
				
				whistling  
				
				
				
				Symphonic black metal  
				
				
				
				Symphonic poem  
				
				
				
				Symphony  
				
				
				
				Synth metal  
				
				
				
				Synth pop  
				
				
				
				Synth rock  
				
				
				
				Synthpunk  
				
				
				
				Syrtó  
				  
				
				 T 
				
				
				
				Taarab  
				
				
				
				Tættir  
				
				
				
				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  
				
				
				
				Tamborito -
				
				Panamanian
				
				dance music  
				
				
				
				Tambu  
				
				
				
				Tamburitza  
				
				
				
				Tamil Christian keerthanai - Christian devotional lyrics in 
				Tamil  
				
				
				
				Tamil keerthanai - 
				Devotional songs  
				
				
				
				Tamil tiruppukazh 
				 
				
				
				
				Táncház - Hungarian dance music  
				
				
				
				Tango - Argentinian dance music that became internationally 
				popular in the 1920s  
				
				
				
				Tango-canción - the first 
				wildly popular form of tango in Argentina  
				
				
				
				Tango flamenco 
				 
				
				
				
				Tanguk - a form of
				
				Korean court music that includes elements of
				
				Chinese music  
				
				
				
				Tanjidor - traditional, 
				instrumental music from
				
				Indonesia with various
				
				brass intruments, usually 
				played in processions  
				
				
				
				Talempong - a distinct
				
				Minangkabau
				
				gamelan music  
				
				
				
				Taibubu  
				
				
				
				Tapany maintso 
				 
				
				
				
				Tappa  
				
				
				
				Tarabu  
				
				
				
				Tarana - form of
				
				vocal music from northern
				
				India using highly rhythmic nonsense syllables  
				
				
				
				Tarannum  
				
				
				
				Tarantella  
				
				
				
				Tarantolati -
				
				Calabrian folk healing ritual  
				
				
				
				Taranto  
				
				
				
				Tassou - Senegalese
				
				rapping  
				
				
				
				Tawshih  
				
				
				
				Tchink-system  
				
				
				
				Tchinkoumé  
				
				
				
				Tech house  
				
				
				
				Techno  
				
				
				
				Techno-tribal  
				
				
				
				Technoid  
				
				
				
				Tembang sunda -
				
				Sundanese sung free verse poetry  
				
				
				
				Teen pop  
				
				
				
				Tejano music or "Tex-Mex", sometimes confused with
				
				norteño  
				
				
				
				Television themes 
				 
				
				
				
				Texas blues  
				
				
				
				The Birmingham Sound
				 
				
				
				
				Thrash metal  
				
				
				
				Thresher  
				
				
				
				Thumri - a type of popular
				
				Hindustani
				
				vocal music  
				
				
				
				Tibetan pop -
				
				pop music heavily influenced by Chinese forms, emerging in 
				the 1980s  
				
				
				
				Tientos  
				
				
				
				Thillana - form of
				
				vocal music from
				
				South India using highly rhythmic nonsense syllables 
				 
				
				
				
				Timbila - form of folk music in
				
				Mozambique  
				
				
				
				Tin Pan Alley  
				
				
				
				Tina  
				
				
				
				Tinga  
				
				
				
				Tis távlas -
				
				drinking songs from
				
				Epirus  
				
				
				
				Togaku  
				
				
				
				Tonas  
				
				
				
				Toeshey -
				
				Tibetan
				
				dance music  
				
				
				
				T'ong guitar - acoustic guitar pop music of
				
				Korea  
				
				Township jive (Mbaqanga)
				 
				
				
				
				Toziych  
				
				
				
				Traditional pop music  
				
				
				
				Trallalero -
				
				Genoese urban songs  
				
				
				
				Trampská hudba - Czech 
				urban folk music  
				
				
				
				Trance  
				
				
				
				Travesty  
				
				
				
				Tribal house  
				
				
				
				Trip-hop  
				
				
				
				Trikitixa -
				
				Basque
				
				accordion music  
				
				
				
				Troista-country 
				 
				
				
				
				Troll metal  
				
				
				
				Tropicalia  
				
				
				
				TRT  
				
				
				
				Truck-driving country  
				
				
				
				Tsámiko  
				
				
				
				Tsapika  
				
				
				
				Tsonga disco  
				
				
				
				Tumba  
				
				
				
				Tunky/Bongo- Old-School 
				dog-sled groove originating from Labrador  
				
				Tuuli (Maglaal)
				 
				
				
				
				Turbo-folk - aggressive form of modernized Serbian music
				 
				
				
				
				Turntablism  
				
				
				
				Tuvan throat-singing  
				
				
				
				Twarab  
				
				
				
				Twee pop  
				
				
				
				Two tone (second wave of ska)  
				  
				
				U 
				
				
				
				Über Metal  
				
				
				
				Ufie  
				
				
				
				UK garage  
				
				
				
				UK pub rock  
				
				
				
				Umui -
				
				Okinawann religious songs  
				
				
				
				Underground music  
				
				
				
				Urban Cowboy  
				
				
				
				Urban Folk  
				
				
				
				Urban jazz  
				
				
				
				Urtin duu  
				
				
				
				Ute  
				  
				
				V 
				
				
				
				Vakodrazana  
				
				
				
				Vakojazzana  
				
				
				
				Vallenato -
				
				accordion-based Colombian folk music  
				
				
				
				Vallenato-protesta 
				 
				
				
				
				Variet  
				
				
				
				Vaudeville  
				
				
				
				Verbunkos - Hungarian folk music  
				
				
				
				Verismo  
				
				
				
				Video game music - Melodic music as defined by its media.
				 
				
				
				
				Viennese-style classical music
				 
				
				
				
				Viking metal  
				
				
				
				Villancicos  
				
				
				
				Villanella - 16th century
				
				Neapolitan songs  
				
				
				
				Virelais  
				
				
				
				Vísir  
				
				
				
				Visual rock  
				
				
				
				Visual techno  
				
				
				
				Vocal house  
				
				
				
				Vocal jazz  
				
				
				
				Vuelie  
				  
				
				W 
				
				
				
				Wahrani  
				
				
				
				Waila (chicken scratch) - a
				
				Tohono O'odham fusion of
				
				polka,
				
				norteño and
				
				Native American music  
				
				
				
				Waltz  
				
				
				
				Wangga  
				
				
				
				Warabe uta  
				
				
				
				Wassoulou  
				
				
				
				Watcha watcha  
				
				
				
				Were  
				
				
				
				West Coast hip hop  
				
				
				
				Western blues  
				
				
				
				Western swing  
				
				
				
				Western Tradition of
				
				Sephardic music  
				
				
				
				Women's music or womyn's music, wimmin's music--1970s 
				lesbian/feminist  
				
				
				
				Wong shadow - 1960s
				
				Thai
				
				pop music  
				
				
				
				Work song  
				
				
				
				Worldbeat  
				
				
				
				World music  
				  
				
				X 
				
				
				
				Xi'an drum music - 
				popular around
				
				Xi'an,
				
				China, ensembles of percussion and wind instruments 
				 
				
				
				
				Xoomii (khoomii, hoomii) - a type of
				
				Tuvan
				
				throat singing  
				  
				
				Y 
				
				
				
				Yang - form of Tibetan Buddhist
				
				chanting  
				
				
				
				Yanvalou  
				
				
				
				Yé-yé  
				
				
				
				Yo-pop  
				
				
				
				Yodeling  
				
				
				
				Young Brigade  
				
				
				
				Yukar  
				  
				
				Z 
				
				
				
				Zairean sound  
				
				
				
				Zajal  
				
				
				
				Zapin - derived from ancient Arabic music, zapin is popular 
				throughout
				
				Malaysia  
				
				
				
				Zarzuela - a form of
				
				Spanish
				
				operetta  
				
				
				
				Zbójnicki  
				
				
				
				Zen (music)  
				
				
				
				Zendani  
				
				
				
				Zeuhl  
				
				
				
				Ziglibithy  
				
				
				
				Zikir Barat -
				
				Sufi vocal music from
				
				Malaysia  
				
				
				
				Zinge -
				
				Latvian vocal music  
				
				
				
				Zoblazo  
				
				
				
				Zolo - characterized by hyper jerky rhythms and cacophonous/ 
				harmonious bleeps and boings  
				
				
				
				Zouglou  
				
				
				
				Zouk -
				
				Antillean
				
				dance music  
				
				
				
				Zouk chouv  
				
				
				
				Zouk funk - a fusion of
				
				zouk and
				
				funk  
				
				
				
				Zouklove  
				
				
				
				Zout  
				
				
				
				Zulu a cappella 
				 
				
				
				
				Zydeco - popular
				
				Louisianan
				
				Creole music Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genres_of_music:_S-Z" 
				  
				
				
				
				Medieval 
				
				
				
				Estampie  
				
				
				
				Gregorian Chant  
				
				
				
				Motet  
				
				
				
				Organum  
				
				
				
				Saltarello  
				  
				
				
				
				Renaissance 
				
				
				
				Ballade  
				
				
				
				Carol  
				
				
				
				Chanson  
				
				
				
				Galliard  
				
				
				
				Intermedio  
				
				
				
				Laude  
				
				
				
				Madrigal  
				
				
				
				Madrigal comedy  
				
				
				
				Madrigale spirituale  
				
				
				
				Mass  
				
				
				
				Cyclic mass  
				
				
				
				Parody mass  
				
				
				
				Paraphrase mass  
				
				
				
				Cantus-firmus mass 
				 
				
				
				
				Motet  
				
				
				
				Motet-chanson  
				
				
				
				Opera  
				
				
				
				Pavane  
				
				
				
				Toccata  
				  
				
				
				
				Baroque 
				
				
				
				Allemande  
				
				
				
				Cantata  
				
				
				
				Concerto  
				
				
				
				Concerto grosso  
				
				
				
				Fugue  
				
				
				
				Gavotte  
				
				
				
				Gigue  
				
				
				
				Mass  
				
				
				
				Minuet  
				
				
				
				Opera  
				
				
				
				Opera buffa  
				
				
				
				Opera seria  
				
				
				
				Oratorio  
				
				
				
				Prelude  
				
				
				
				Sarabande  
				
				
				
				Sinfonia  
				
				
				
				Sonata  
				
				
				
				Flute sonata  
				
				
				
				Suite  
				  
				
				
				
				Classical and 
				
				
				Romantic 
				
				
				
				Bagatelle  
				
				
				
				Ballet  
				
				
				
				Carol  
				
				
				
				Concerto  
				
				
				
				Clarinet concerto  
				
				
				
				Concerto grosso  
				
				
				
				Flute concerto  
				
				
				
				Piano concerto  
				
				
				
				Violin concerto  
				
				
				
				Étude  
				
				
				
				Impromptu  
				
				
				
				Intermezzo  
				
				
				
				Lied  
				
				
				
				Mass  
				
				
				
				Mazurka  
				
				
				
				Nocturne  
				
				
				
				Opera  
				
				
				
				Ballad opera  
				
				
				
				Opera buffa  
				
				
				
				Opera comique  
				
				
				
				Opera seria  
				
				
				
				Operetta  
				
				
				
				Overture  
				
				
				
				Singspiel  
				
				
				
				Zarzuela  
				
				
				
				Oratorio  
				
				
				
				Polonaise  
				
				
				
				Prelude  
				
				
				
				Quartet  
				
				
				
				Piano quartet  
				
				
				
				String quartet  
				
				
				
				Quintet  
				
				
				
				Piano quintet  
				
				
				
				String quintet  
				
				
				
				Requiem  
				
				
				
				Rondo  
				
				
				
				Scherzo  
				
				
				
				Serenade  
				
				
				
				Sonata  
				
				
				
				Bassoon sonata  
				
				
				
				Cello sonata  
				
				
				
				Clarinet sonata  
				
				
				
				Piano sonata  
				
				
				
				Violin sonata  
				
				
				
				Symphony  
				  
				
				
				
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