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* A cappella - any singing performed without instrumental backing * Acid Jazz - a combination of jazz, funk, and hip hop * Afrobeat [edit] Al * Aleatoric music - music the composition of which is partially left to chance * Alpine New Wave * Alternative country - reaction against the 1990s highly-polished Nashville sound * Alternative dance * Alternative hip hop - opposite of gangsta rap, usually includes metaphorical 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 * Anarchist Folk Rock - music genre where anarchy relates to compositional style with a focus on experimentation & merger of folk & rock elements [edit] Ap-Ax * Apala * Arabesque - A versatile collection of music fusing eastern folk music, Arab classical music and various other genres * Argentine rock * Ars antiqua * Ars nova * Art rock * Ashiq - Azeri bards who sing and accompany themselves on a saz (a kind of lute) * Australian country music (see also Country music) * Australian pub rock * Australian hip hop * Australian humour * Avant-garde jazz * Avant-garde metal * Avant-garde music - any kind of experimental music incorporated bizarre ideas, structures or instrumentation * Axé - pop music from Salvador, Bahia [edit] B Ba - Be-Bh - Bi-Bl - Bo - Br-Bu [edit] 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 * Baila - Sri Lankan dance music derived from African slaves held by the Portuguese * Baile Funk - Brazilian dance music literally means "ball", as in "dance party", and "funk" * Baisha xiyue - a song and dance suite from the Naxi of Lijiang, China * Bajourou * Bakou - trilling vocals that accompany Wolof wrestling * Bagad * Bal-musette * Balakadri * Ballad - generic term for usually slow, romantic, despairing and catastrophic songs * Ballata * Ballet (music) * Balss [edit] Bam-Bay * Bamboo band - originally from the Solomon Islands, music played by hitting bamboo tubes with sandals * Bambuco * Banda - Mexican brass norteño pop music invented in the 1960s * Bangsawan * Bantowbol * Barbershop music - extremely melodic a cappella vocal style * Barndance * Baroque music - 17th-18th century European classical music * Bass music (Miami bass, Booty bass) - electro influenced form of hip hop dance music arising in Miami, Florida * Bastard Pop * Batá * Batá-rumba * Batcave (club) * Batucada * Batuco [edit] Be-Bh * Beach music * Beat * Beatboxing - Music performed by producing percussive and melodic sounds with the mouth alone, often mimicking instruments, recorded samples and other sounds not typically associated with vocalization. * Bebop - 1940s jazz style with complex improvisation and a fast tempo * Beiguan - Taiwanese instrumental music * Bel canto - Italian vocal style which arose in the late 16th century and which ended in the mid-19th century * Bend-skin * Benga * Bhajan - a Hindu religious song * Bhangra - originally Punjabi dance music * Bhangra-wine * Bhangragga * Bhangramuffin [edit] Bi-Bl * Big band music - large orchestras which play a form of swing music * Big Beat - 1990s electronic music based on breakbeat with other influences * Biguine - Martinican folk music * Black ambient - blackened form of dark ambient music * Blackened death metal - a fusion between death and black metal * Black metal - highly distorted and swift form of heavy metal * Bluegrass - American country music mixed with Irish and Scottish influences * Blue-eyed soul * Blues - African-American music from the Mississippi Delta area * Blues ballad * Blues-rock * Biomusic * Bitpop [edit] Bo * Bocet * Bohemian Dub - Contemporary music style that blends Hip Hop, Dub, Funk, Pop and Klezmer music * Boi - Central Amazonian folk music * Bolero - Spanish and Cuban dance and music * Bomba * Bombay pop * Bongo - distinctive African drum and style of drumming * Boogie woogie - style of piano-based blues popular in the 1940s US * Boogaloo - soul and mambo fusion popular in 1960s United States * Bossa nova * Bothy ballad * Bouncy techno * Boy band * Boy with guitar [edit] Br-Bu * Brass band * Brazilian funk * Brazilian jazz - bossa nova and samba mixed with American jazz * Breakbeat * Breakbeat hardcore * Breakcore * Brechtian Punk Cabaret- coined by The Dresden Dolls * Brill Building Pop - named after New York's Brill Building at 1619 Broadway * Britfunk * Britpop * British blues * British Invasion * Broadside ballad * Broken beat * Brown-eyed soul * Brukdown - rural Belizean Kriol music * Brutal death metal - a subgenre of death metal that focuses on a greater emphasis of heaviness, speed and aggression in its delivery * Bubblegum dance * Bubblegum pop - sometimes synonymous with pop music, especially that performed by teen idols; can also refer to specific styles of South African or Japanese pop * Buiasche * Bikutsi * Bulerias * Bumba-meu-boi * Bunggul * Bunraku - Japanese style originated from a kind of puppet-theater. * Burger-highlife * Burgundian School [edit] C Ca - Cc-Ce - Ch - Ci-Cl - Co - Cr-Cu [edit] Cad-Cam * Ca din tulnic * Ca pe lunca * Ca trù - (hat a dao) Vietnamese folk music * Cabaret * Cadence * Cadence-lypso - guitar-dominated Cadence music combined with calypso horns * Cadence rampa * Café-aman * Cai luong - Vietnamese opera * Cajun music * Cakewalk * Calenda - Trinidadian drum dance * 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 [edit] Can-Car * Caña * Candombe * Canon * Cantata * 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 * Carimbó - dance music of Belém, Brazil * Cariso * Carnatic music * Carol * Cartageneras [edit] Cas-Cav * Cassé-co * Cassette culture * Cavacha * Ca..Doncaster rovers [edit] Cc-Ce * CCM (Contemporary Christian Music) * Celempungan * Cello rock * Celtic * Celtic fusion * Celtic metal * Celtic punk * Celtic reggae * Celtic rock [edit] 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 * Chalga * Changuí * Chanson * Charanga * Charanga-vallenato - 1980s mixture of salsa, charanga and vallenata * Charikawi * Chastushki - humorous Russian folk songs * Chau van - Vietnamese trance music [edit] Che-Chi * Chemical breaks * Chèo * Chillout * Chicago house * Chicken scratch - Arizona-based White American music * Chimurenga (mbira) * Chinese music * Chinese rock - rock and roll from China / Taiwan, often with protest lyrics * Chip music [edit] 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 * Chopera - Church Opera * Chorinho * Choro - Brazilian folk music * Christian alternative * Christian black metal (known as Unblack metal) * Christmas carol See also: List of Christmas carols * Christian electronic music * Christian Hardcore * Christian hip hop * Christian Industrial * Christian metal * Christian music * Christian punk * Christian rock * Chylandyk - type of xoomii which sounds like the chirping of crickets [edit] Chu * Chumba * Chut-kai-pang * Chutney - popular Indo-Caribbean music * Chutney-bhangra * Chutney-hip hop * Chutney-soca - Chutney mixed with calypso and other influences [edit] Ci-Cl * Cigányzene * Cînd ciobanu s-i a pierdut oile * Cîntec batrînesc * Ciobanul * Classic country * Classic female blues - early popular form of blues * Classic rock * Classical music * Classical music era (~1730-1820), for what's popularly known as "classical music", see European classical music or List of musical movements * Clicks n Cuts * Close harmony * Club [edit] Coc-Cor * Cocobale * Coimbra fado - a form of refined fado from Coimbra, Portugal * Colombianas * Comedy rap * Comedy rock * Comic opera * Comparsa * Compas direct * Compas meringue * Concert overture * Concerto * Concerto grosso * Congo - Panamanian dance music * Conjunto * Contemporary Africa music * Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) * Contemporary R&B * Contonbley * Contradanza * Cool jazz * Corrido * Coladeira * Combined Rhythm - music of the Dutch Antilles * Corrido - storytelling ballads from Mexico * Corsican polyphonic song * Cothoza mfana [edit] Cou-Cow * Country blues * Country Gospel a.k.a. Christian Country * Country music * Country rap * Country rock * Countrypolitan * Couple de sonneurs - Breton dance music * Cowpunk Country pop [edit] Cr-Cu * Crag * Crossover music * Crossover thrash * Crunk * Crust punk * Csárdás * Cuarteto - Argentinian folk music * Cuddlecore * 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 [edit] D Da - De-Dh - Di-Dr - Du-Dz [edit] 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 - fusion of punk rock, funk, disco, and electro music (also known as disco-punk, punk-funk, and indie-dance) * Dance-rock * Dancehall * Dangdut - popular Indonesian dance music with influences from Arabic and Indian music * Dansband * Danza * Danzón * Dark ambient * Dark cabaret * Darkcore (hardcore techno) * Darkcore (drum & bass) * Dark pop * Darkwave [edit] De-Dh * De codru * De dragoste * De jale * De pahar * Deathcore * Deathgrind - a fusion between death metal and grindcore * Death industrial * Death metal * Death/Doom - a fusion between death and doom metal * Death rock * Décima * Degung * Delta blues * Deep house * Deep soul * Dementia - relating to the style of music popularized by the Dr. Demento Show * Desi - Indian folk music * Detroit blues * Detroit techno * Dhamar - a type of highly-oranemented dhrupad * Dhimotiká - traditional Greek songs * Dhrupad - Hindustani vocal music performed by men singing in medieval Hindi * Dhun [edit] Di-Dr * Digital hardcore * Dirge * Dirty rap * Dirty South (also known as Southern rap) * Disco * Disco house * Disco polo - Polish nightclub dance music, played in '90s. * 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 * Doomcore * Downtempo * Dream pop * Drone doom (Also known as Drone metal) * Drone music * Dronology * Drum and bass (DNB) [edit] Du-Dz * Dub * Dub house * Dubtronica * Dubstep * Dunun - Yoruba drum music * Dunedin Sound - early 1980s alternative rock sound based out of Dunedin, New Zealand and Flying Nun Records * Dutch jazz [edit] E Ea-En - Er-Ez [edit] Ea-En * E-Grind * Early music * East Coast blues * East Coast hip hop * Eastern Tradition of Sephardic music * Easy listening * Elafrolaïkó * Electric blues * Electric folk * Electro * Electro Backbeat * Electro hop * Electro-maximal * Electro-industrial * Electro punk * Electroclash * Electrofunk * Electronic art music * Electronic body music (EBM, also known as industrial dance) * Electronic dance * Electronic luk thung - Dance-ready form of Thai pleng luk thung * Electronic music * Electronic rock * Electronica * Electropop * Elevator music (or Muzak) * Emo * Enka - Japanese pop music, using native forms [edit] Ep-Ez * Epic Metal * Equdorian Moggadawn Power Stomp * Eremwu eu * Ethereal wave * Euba * Eurobeat * Eurodance * Europop * Eurotrance * Exotica * Experimental music * Experimental noise * Experimental pop * Experimental rock * Extreme Metal * Ezengileer - type of Tuvan xoomii said to imitate the trotting of horses [edit] F Fa - Fr - Fu [edit] Fa-Fr * Fado - Portuguese roots-based popular music * Falak - Tajik folk music * fandango - Spanish dance music * Farruca - a genre of flamenco * Filk - modern, science fiction-oriented music * Film scores * Filmi - Indian film music * Filmi-ghazal - filmi based on Hindustani ghazal * Finger-style * Fjatpangarri - Aboriginal Australian music local to Yirrbala * Flamenco - dance music of Andalusia, Spain * Flower power * Foaie verde - classical form of Romanian doina * Fofa * Folk metal * Folk music * Folk pop * Folk punk * Folk rock * Folktronica * Forró - extremely popular music of Northeastern Brazil [edit] Fr * Franco-country * Freakbeat * Freak-folk * Free improvisation - freeform musical improvisation * Free jazz - improvised 1960s jazz * Free music * Freestyle * Freestyle house - a cross-culture mix of hip-hop/electro/house/pop * Freetekno * Frenchcore - exists of fast and dark beats mostly without a melody. It doesn't have to be made in France though. * Frevo - folk music from Recife, Brazil * Fricote - dance music from Salvador, Brazil [edit] Fu * Fuji - Yoruba vocal and percussion music * Fulia - Afro-Venezuelan percussion music * Funacola * Funaná * Funeral doom - an extremely slow version of doom metal, most commonly made at the "pace of a funeral march" * Funk - a bass-heavy outgrowth of soul music * Funkcore * Funk metal - 1980s combination of funk, heavy metal and punk rock * Funk rock * Funky house, considered a subgenre of UK Garage * Furniture music - Erik Satie's invention of Background music * Fusion jazz - mixture of rock and jazz * Future jazz * Futurepop -synthpop, EBM and darkwave * G-funk [edit] Gaa-Gal * Gaana - Tamil folk/rap from Chennai, India * Gabber (also spelled as Gabba) * Gagá * Gagaku - Japanese classical music derived from ancient court traditions * Gaikyoku * Gaita - Afro-Venezuelan form of percussion music * Galant [edit] Gam-Gan * Gamad - Malay-style * Gambang kromong - popular, highly-evolved form of kroncong, originally adapted for the theater * Game * 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 gay * 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 gayman * Gamelan semar pegulingan - sensual form of gamelan from Bali * Gammeldan * Gandrung - Osing music performed at weddings and other waste of time. * Gangsta rap - American form of hip hop music which focuses on underground lifestyles and illegal activities. [edit] Gar-Gav * Gar - Tibetan classical music from gabi gishnola assrape * Garage rock * Garrotin * Gavotte [edit] 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 * Genrecore - the use of specific music genres for ironic purposes * German Folk Music * 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 * Girl Talk * Glam metal * Glam rock * Glitch * Gnawa * Gnatland Biblical - Brighton England of origin basis of herbrew hip-hop and grunge. [edit] Go-Gr * Go go * Goa (also known as Goa trance) * Gong-chime music * Goombay - Bahamanian percussion music * Goregrind * Gore Metal * Goshu ondo - a form of popularized Okinawan folk music * Gospel music * Gothenburg Sound * Gothic metal * Gothic rock * Granadinas * Gregorian chant (plainchant) * Grime - emerged from East London, dark electronic beats with rapping, related to UK Garage and 2 step * Grindcore * Groove metal * Group Sounds - Japanese pop music from the 1960s, which included Appalachian folk music and psychedelic rock * Grunge * Grunk - Originated in Melbourne Australia. * Grupera - a mixture of Mexican ranchera, norteño and cumbia * Gruzrock [edit] Gu-Gy * Guaguanbo * Guajira * Guasca - from Colombia * 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 * Gwo ka - Guadeloupan percussion music * Gwo ka moderne - modernized gwo ka * Gypsy jazz * Gypsy punk * Gyu ke - form of Tibetan Tantric chanting [edit] H Ha - He-Ho - Hu-Hy [edit] Hab-Has * Habanera - Africanized danzón * Haiducesti * Hajnali - Hungarian-Transylvanian wedding songs * Hakka * Hambo * Hands Up * Hapa haole - a mixture of traditional Hawaiian music and English lyrics * Happy hardcore * Haqibah * Hardcore hip hop * Hardcore metal * Hardcore punk * Hardcore techno * Hard bop (hard bebop) * Hard house * Hard rock * Hardstyle * Hard trance * Harepa - harp-based music of Pedi people of South Africa * Harmonica blues * Hasaposérviko [edit] Hat-Haz * Hát chèo - an ancient form of Vietnamese stage opera * Hát cãi luong - Vietnamese popular opera * Hát chau van - a popular spiritual folk music of Vietnam * Hát tuồng (Hát bôi) - Vietnamese operatic music * Hazzanut [edit] He-Ho * Heartland rock * Heavy metal * Hesher * Hi-NRG * Highlands * Highlife * Highlife fusion * Hillybilly music * Hiplife * Hip hop * Hip house * Hip pop * Hindustani classical music * Hiragasy * Hiva usu - unaccompanied vocal Christian music of Tonga * Honky tonk * Honkyoku * Hora lunga * Hornpipes * Horrorcore rap * Horror punk * House music [edit] Hu-Hy * Hua'er * Huasteco - folk music from Huasteco, Mexico * Huaynos - Andean dance music now most widespread in Peru * Hula * Humppa * Hunguhungu * Hyangak - Korean court music * Hymn * Hyphy [edit] I * Ibiza music * Ibo * Igbo-highlife * Ijexá * Ilahije * Illbient * Impressionist music * Improvisational * Incidental music * Indietronica * Indian Classical (Ghazals) * Indie music * Indie pop * Indie rock * Indo jazz - jazz mixed with forms of Indian music * Indo rock * Indoyíftika * Industrial dance (or EBM, electronic body music) * Industrial hip-hop * 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) * International Latin - pop ballads from various Latin countries, especially Colombia * Inuit music - music of the Inuit * Irish folk * Irish Rebel Music * Iscathamiya * Isikhwela jo * Island - mix of reggae,ska,latin; music sounding from the island * Isolationist * Italo Disco - Italian nightclub music * Itsmeños - folk music of the Zapotecs of Mexico * Izvorna bosanska muzika - modernized folk music from Drina, Bosnia [edit] J Ja-Je - Ji-Ju * J-Pop - Japanese Japanese pop music * J-Rock - Japanese Japanese rock music [edit] 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 * Japanese rock - Japanese rock music * Jarana * Jariang - Cambodian folk narratives * Jarochos - folk music from Veracruz, Mexico * Jawaiian - Hawaiian reggae * Jazz * Jazz blues * Jazz-funk * Jazz fusion * Jazz Metal * Jazz rap * Jegog - Giant Bamboo ensemble of Bali, Indonesia * Jenkka * Jesus music [edit] Ji-Jt * Jesuscore * Jibaro * Jig * Jig punk * Jing ping * Jingle - form of music used in television commercials * Jit * Jitterbug * Jive * Joged - a generic term for various types of dance music all over Indonesia * Joged bumbung - a popular form of joged ensemble * Joik * Joropo * Jota * J'Ouvert * Jug band * Juke joint blues * Juju * Jump blues * Jungle * Junkanoo * Juré * Jtek [edit] K Ka - Ke-Kh - Ki-Kp - Kr-Kw [edit] 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 diskanrapes men * Kansas City blues * Kantádhes * Kantrum * Karaoke * Kargyraa * Karma * Kaseko - Surinamese folk music * Katcharsee - lively, celebratory Okinawan folk music * Katajjaq - competitive Inuit throat singing * Kawachi ondo - a form of modernized Okinawan folk music * Kayōkyoku - traditionally-structured Japanese pop music [edit] 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 [edit] 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 [edit] Kr-Kw * Krakowiak * Krautrock * 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 arrafadbh * Kveding - traditional Norwegian songs * Kwaito * Kwassa kwassa * Kwela [edit] L La - Le-Lo - Lu [edit] 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 the 1980s * Lancer * Langgam jawa - type of kroncong mixed with gamelan, popular around Solo, Indonesia * Latin American music * Laremuna wadauman * Latin jazz - jazz mixed with Latin musical forms like bossa nova or salsa * Lavlu * Lavway [edit] Le-Lo * Le leagan * Legényes - Hungarian-Transylvanian men's dance * Letkajenkka * Lhamo - form of Tibetan opera * Lieder * Likanos * Light Music - 20th Century light orchestral music (mainly British) * Light Rock * Liquindi * Llanera - Venezuelan music * Llanto - a flamenco-influenced genre of Panamanian folk music * Lo-fi music * Loki djili - traditional Hungarian Gypsy songs * Long-song - traditional Mongolian slow songs * Louisiana blues * Lounge music * Lovers rock * Lowercase - see Lowercase (music) [edit] 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 [edit] M Ma - Mb-Mg - Mi - Min-Mir - Mo-Mp - Mu * M-Base [edit] 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 [edit] 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 * Mangue Bit - African style beat music style from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil * Mangulina * Manikay * Manila sound - Early 1970s development in Pinoy rock which mixed Tagalog and English lyrics * Manouche * Manzuma * Mapouka * Mapouka-serré maluka Motown [edit] Mar-Maz * Marabi * Maracatu - African and Portuguese music popular around Recife, Brazil * Marga - Indian classical music * Mariachi - pop form of son jalisciense * Marimba * Marrabenta * Martial industrial * Maskanda - popularized Zulu-traditional music * Mass * Martinetes * Matamuerte * Mathcore * Math rock * Maxixe * Mazurka [edit] Mb-Mg * Mbalax * Mbaqanga (township jive) * Mbira (Chimurenga) * Mbube * Mbumba * Medh * Meditation * Medieval folk rock * Medieval metal * Medieval music * Mejorana * Melhoun * Melhûn * Melodic black metal * Melodic death metal * Melodic hardcore * Melodic metalcore * Melodic music * 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 * Metalcore * Metallic hardcore * Mexican son - a broad group of Mexican folk music * Meyjana * Mezwed [edit] Mia-Mil * Miami bass (booty bass) (Bass music) * Mini compas * Mini-jazz * Minuet * Milongas [edit] Min-Mit * Min'yo - Japanese folk music * Mineras * Mini-jazz - Caribbean jazz * Minimalist music * Minimalist trance * Minstrel show * Minneapolis sound * Mirabras * Mirolóyia [edit] Mo-MP * Modinha * Modern classical music * Modern Laika * 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 * Motown * Momedy * Morna * Metalcore * Mozambique * MPB (música popular brasileira) - catch-all term for multiple varieties of Brazilian pop music [edit] 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 * Mushroom Jazz * Music drama * Music Hall * Music noir * 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) * Nafratala-Mexican s.x music * 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 * Nardcore - Nardcore is a hardcore punk movement that came out of Southern California in the early 1980s * 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 * National Socialist Black Metal - NSBM Nazi black metal * Native American gospel - gospel music performed by Native Americans * Naturalismo - a term for the 2000s folk movement also referred to as New Weird America or Freak Folk * Nederpop - popular music of the Netherlands, especially in the Dutch language * Néo kýma * Neofolk - a form of folk music that emerged from European ideals and post-industrial music * Neo-Medieval * Neo-prog * Neo-Psychedelia * Neo Soul (Nu Soul) - late 1990s and early 2000s American fusion of contemporary R&B, 1970s style soul music, hip hop music, jazz, and classical music * Nerdcore hiphop * Neue Deutsche Härte * 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 Pop * New prog * New Rave * 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 United Kingdom * New Wave - melodious pop outgrowth of arty punk rock, also used as description of an emerging sound in any genre (e.g. Alpine New Wave) * New Wave of New Wave * New Weird America - term to defining emerging folk/psychedelia/drone/noize influenced by pre-war country-folk-blues & 1960s counter cultural underground music. * New York blues - jazzy, urban blues from the early 20th century * New York House (also known as US Garage) * NuWave - a genre created by a popular DJ called DJ NuWave * Newgrass - progressive bluegrass [edit] Ng * Nganja * Nhąc dân tôc cai biên - modernized forms of Vietnamese folk music which arose in the 1950s * Nhac tài tů - Vietnamese chamber music which accompanies cai luong * Nha Nac * Niche - sub-genre of UK Garage and Bassline House, name derived from the club in Sheffield, that first started putting on regular bassline nights * Nintendocore * Nisiótika - folk songs of the Greek islands * No Wave - avant-garde late 1970s outgrowth of New Wave and punk rock * Noh - highly-stylized Japanese theater and music style * Noise music - 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 o 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 [edit] 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 * Oldies * Olonkho - Yakut epic songs * Oltului * Ompa - Music by the Kaizers Orchestra * 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 * Organ trio - a style of jazz from the 1960s that blended blues and jazz (and later "soul jazz") and which was based around the sound of the Hammond organ * Organic ambient - often acoustic ambient music which uses instruments and styles borrowed from world music * Organic house * Organica - A genre music created by SLIPS INTO SPACE in 2007, it is written without predetermining the outcome of the overall sound.This music causes audible hallucinations. * Organum - Middle Ages polyphonic music * Oriental Foxtrot * Oriental metal - a subgenre of folk metal that incorporates elements of traditional Middle Eastern music. * 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 [edit] P Pa - Pi - Po - Pr [edit] Pa * 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 * Padams * Pagan rock * Pagode - Brazilian style of music which originated in the Rio de Janeiro region * Paisley Underground - 1980s style of alternative rock that drew heavily on psychedelia * Palm wine - fusion of numerous West African, Latin American and European genres, popular throughout coastal West Africa in the 20th century * Palos * Panambih - tembang sunda that uses metered poetry * Panchai baja - Nepalese wedding music * Panchavadyam - Temple music from Kerala, India * Pansori - Korean folk music played by a singer and a drummer * Paranda - Garifuna form of music * Parisian soukous * Parranda - Afro-Venezuelan form of music * Parody - humorous renditions of various songs * Patriotic * Payada de contrapunto * Pambiche (Merengue estilo yanqui) * Paranda - Garifuna music of Belize * Parang - Trinidadian Christmas carols * Partido alto * El pasacalle * Paseo (music) * Pasillo * Peace Metal * 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 [edit] Pi * 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 * Plunk-Folk - energetic double-bass driven folk, with the 'plunk' of the double bass sound. [edit] Po * Poco-poco - Indonesian modern music which fuses disco with eastern Indonesian dance music * Polihet * 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 Progressive - Pop accompanied by guitar/bass riffs and speedy drum patterns * Pop punk * Pop rai * Pop rap * Pop rock * Pop sunda - Sundanese mixture of gamelan degung and pop music structures * Pornocore * Porro - Colombian big band music * Portuguese Shangaan - South African and Mozambiquan mixture of traditional Tsonga and Portuguese music * Post-grunge * Post-hardcore- Slite mixture of Hardcore and Punk rock * Post-Jam - Next Wave Jambands like the Slip, Lotus, STS9 and The Duo. Electronic and Indie Rock stylings. * Post-metal * Post-minimalism * Post-punk * Post-rock * Post-romanticism * Power electronics * Power metal * Power noise (or rhythmic noise) * Power pop * Powerviolence * Pow-wow - Native American dance music * Ppongtchak - Korean pop music developed during the Japanese occupation [edit] Pr * Praise song * Pre-Computer * Prison metal * Program symphony * Progressive Acoustic Urban Math Folk * Progressive electronic music * Progressive folk music * Progressive house * Progressive industrial beatbox-jambalaya * Progressive metal * Progressive bluegrass * Progressive rock * Progressive trance * Protopunk * Psychedelic music * Psych folk or Psychedelic folk * Psychedelic rock * Psychedelic trance (Psy-trance) * Psychobilly * Psychosomatic trance * Psych-pop * Punjabi thumri - a type of thumri from Punjab * Punk blues - a US music genre that developed in the 1980s, which mixes elements of blues with the aggressive sound of punk. * Punk Cabaret - a fusion of musical theater and cabaret style music with the aggressive, raw nature of punk rock. * Punk jazz * Punk rock * Punta * Punta rock - 1970s Belizean music * Puke-a-Billy - genre created by Nathan Payne in the late 1990s. Mix of rock-a-billy, punk, country, and blues. [edit] Q * Quan ho - Vietnamese vocal music which originated in the Red River Delta * Qasidah - Epic religious poetry accompanied by percussion and chanting * Qasidah modern - Qasidah updated for mainstream audiences * Qawwali - Sufi religious music updated for mainstream audiences, was originated in India * Quadrille * Queercore * Quiet Storm [edit] R Ra - Rh [edit] Ra * Rada * Raga rock - Swiss soul, rock and Indian music fusion * Raga Metal - Welsh, Notable Band Skindred * Ragas * Raggamuffin (Ragga) * Ragga-chutney * Ragga Jungle * 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 * Ramkbach * Ramvong * Ranchera - pop mariachi from 1950s film soundtracks * Random dance * Rap * Rap rock o Rap metal * Rapcore * Rapso * Rara * Rare groove * Rasiya * Rateliai * Rave * Rebetiko * Rebita * reel * Reggae * Reggae dancehall (see Dancehall) * Reggae highlife * Reggaeton * Reinlender * Rekilaulu - Finnish rhyming sleigh songs * Religious * Rembetiko * Renaissance music * Requiem * Retro Acoustic Steel Guitar [edit] Rh * 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 español * Rock sureño - 70's Rock from Andalusia with Flamenco influences * Rockabilly * Rocknoir * 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 o African Rumba o Cuban Rumba (yambu, columbia, and guaguanco) o Flamenco Rumba also known as Gypsy rumba * Rumba gitana - French Gypsy music * Runddan * Runolaulu - Finnish folk songs * Runo-song - Estonian folk music * Sabar - drumming style found in Senegal * Sacred Harp * Sadcore * Saibara * Salegy * Salsa - fusion of multiple Cuban- and Puerto Rican-derived pop genres from immigrants in New York City * Salsa erotica - lyrically explicit form of salsa romantica * Salsa 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-canção - traditional samba in slow tempo and with romantic lyrics. influenced by bolero * Sambai * Sanjo - Korean instrumental folk music * Sato kagura * Sawt - urban music from Kuwait and Bahrain * Saya - Bolivian music derived from African rhythms [edit] Sc * Schottisch * Science Future Vision - Post genome code science punk rock originally started in Hull * Scottish Baroque music * Schranz * Scrap (music) * Screamo * Scrumpy and Western - folk music from West Country of England * Sea shanty * Sean nós - Sean-nós singing style of Ireland * Second Viennese School * Sega music * Seis * Semba * Sephardic music * Serialism * Set dance * Sevdalinka - Bosnian urban popular music * Sevillana * Shabab * Shabad * Shalako - Armenian folk dance * Shan'ge - Taiwanese Hakka mountain songs * Shango * Shape note * 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 * Shock rock * Shoegaze * Shoka - Japanese songs written during the Meiji Restoration to bring Western music to Japanese schools * Shomyo - Japanese Buddhist chanting * Showtunes [edit] Si * Sica * Siguiriyas * Silat - Malaysian mixture of music, dance and martial arts * Sinawi - Korean religious music meant for dancing; it is improvised and reminiscent of jazz * Singer-songwriter * Situational * Ska * Ska punk * Skacore (third wave of ska) * Skald * Skate punk * Skiffle * Skronk - popular music originating in Charleston, South Carolina, USA in the late 1990s having elements of ska, rock, and funk. * Slack-key guitar (kihoalu) - Hawaiian form invented by retuning open strings on a guitar * Slängpolska * Slide * Slowcore * Sludge metal * Smooth jazz [edit] So * Soca * Soft rock * Son-batá (batá rock) * Son montuno - Cuban folk music * Sonata * Songo - a mixture of changuí and son montuno * Songo-salsa - a mixture of songo, hip hop and salsa * Soukous * Soul blues * Soul jazz * Soul music * Soundtrack * Southern Gospel * Southern Harmony * Southern hip hop * Southern rock * Southern soul * Space age pop * Space music * Space rock * Spacesynth * Spectralism * Speedcore * Speed garage * Speed metal * Spirituals * Spouge - Barbadian folk music * Square dance [edit] St * St. Louis blues * Steelband * Stoner metal * Stoner rock * Straight edge * Strathspeys * Stride * String - 1980s Thai pop music * String quartet * Suite * Suomirock * Super Eurobeat * Surf ballads * Surf instrumental * Surf music * Surf pop * Surf rock * Swamp blues * Swamp pop * Swamp rock * Swingbeat (New Jack Swing, New Jack R&B) * Swing music [edit] Sy * Sygyt - type of xoomii (Tuvan throat singing), likened to the sound of whistling * Symphonic black metal * Symphonic metal * Symphonic poem * Symphonic rock * Symphony * Symphusion * Synthpop * Synthpunk [edit] T * Taarab * Tai tu - Vietnamese chamber music * Taiwanese pop - early Taiwanese pop music influenced by enka and popular with older listeners * Tala - a rhythmic pattern in Indian classical music * Tambu * Tamburitza * Tamil Christian keerthanai - Christian devotional lyrics in Tamil * Táncház - Hungarian dance music * Tango - Argentinian dance music that became internationally popular in the 1920s * Tanguk - a form of Korean court music that includes elements of Chinese music * Talempong - a distinct Minangkabau gamelan music * Tappa * Tarana - form of vocal music from northern India using highly rhythmic nonsense syllables * Tarantella * Taranto * Tech house * Technical death metal * Technical metal * Techno * Techno metal * Techno Rock * Technoid * Tembang sunda - Sundanese sung free verse poetry * Teen pop * Tejano music or "Tex-Mex", sometimes confused with norteño * Texas blues * Thrashcore * 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 * Tinga * Tinku - traditional music and dance from Potosi Bolivia * Toadas - traditional music and dance from Brazil * Togaku * Toeshey - Tibetan dance music * T'ong guitar - acoustic guitar pop music of Korea * Traditional pop music * Trallalero - Genoese urban songs * Trance * Travesty * Tribal house * Trip-hop * Trip rock * Trikitixa - Basque accordion music * Trompetenpunk * Trock - Time God Rock, Songs about Doctor Who * Trop Rock * Tropicalia * Truck-driving country * Tumba * Turbo-folk - aggressive form of modernized Serbian music * Turntablism * Tuvan throat-singing * Twee pop * Twist (also a dance style, early 1960s) * Two tone (second wave of ska) [edit] U * UK garage * UK pub rock * Unblack metal (also know as Christian black metal) * Underground music * Unknown[disambiguation needed] * Urban Cowboy * Urban Folk * Urban jazz [edit] V * Vallenato - accordion-based Colombian folk music * Vaudeville * Verbunkos - Hungarian folk music * Verismo * Video game music - Melodic music as defined by its media. * Viking metal * Villanella - 16th century Neapolitan songs * Virelais * Visual Kei * Visual music * Vocal house * Vocal jazz * Volksmusik [edit] W * Waila (chicken scratch) - a Tohono O'odham fusion of polka, norteño and Native American music * Waltz * Warabe uta * Wassoulou * Were music * West Coast pop * Western blues * Western swing * Wizard rock * Women's music or womyn's music, wimmin's music--1970s lesbian/feminist * Wong shadow - 1960s Thai pop music * Work song * Wood Sounds of organic synthesis recorded on organic medium such as tape. * Worldbeat * World music * World fusion music [edit] X * Xoomii (khoomii, hoomii) - a type of Tuvan throat singing * Xhosa music * Xian rock [edit] Y * Yang - form of Tibetan Buddhist chanting * Yé-yé * Yorubeat Funk and Afrobeat influenced * Yo-pop * Yodeling * Yukar [edit] Z * Zajal * Zapin - derived from ancient Arabic music, zapin is popular throughout Malaysia * Zarzuela - a form of Spanish operetta * Zeuhl * Ziglibithy * Zolo - characterized by hyper bitchy rhythms and cacophonous/ harmonious bleeps and bongs * Zouglou * Zouk - Antillean dance music * Zouk chouv * Zouklove * Zulu music * Zydeco - popular Louisianan Creole music