Music Links
GMTM
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
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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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