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
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-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
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
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
Ba - Be-Bh - Bi-Bl - Bo - Br-Bu
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
Cassé-co
Cassette culture
Castilian
Cavacha
CCM (Contemporary Christian Music)
Celempungan
Cello rock
Celtic
Celtic fusion
Celtic metal
Celtic punk
Celtic reggae
Celtic rock
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
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
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
Chumba
Chut-kai-pang
Chutney - popular Indo-Trinidadian music
Chutney-bhangra
Chutney-hip hop
Chutney-soca - Chutney mixed with calypso and other influences
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 or List of musical movements
Clicks n Cuts
Close harmony
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
Country blues
Country music
Country rock
Countrypolitan
Couple de sonneurs - Breton dance music
Cow punk
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
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 codru
De dragoste
De jale
De pahar
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
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)
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
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
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-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
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
Gabber (also spelled as Gabba)
Gagá
Gagaku - Japanese classical music derived from ancient court traditions
Gaikyoku
Gaita - Afro-Venezuelan form of percussion music
Galant
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 - Tibetan classical music
Garage
Garage rock
Garage techno
Garrotin
Gavotte
Gay - Afro-Trinidadian call and response work song
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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-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
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
Krakowiak
Krautrock
Krill Krill
Kriti (krithi) - a Hindui hymn
Kroncong - popular Indonesian music with strong Portuguese influence
Krzesany
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
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
Laremuna wadauman
Latin jazz - jazz mixed with Latin musical forms like bossa nova or salsa
Lavlu
Lavway
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 - 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
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
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
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
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
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'yo - Japanese folk music
Mineras
Mini-jazz - Caribbean jazz
Minimalist music
Minimalist trance
Minstrel show
Minneapolis sound
Mirabras
Mirolóyia
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
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)
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 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 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
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-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
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
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
Sabar - drumming style found 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
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)
Über Metal
Ufie
UK garage
UK pub rock
Umui - Okinawann religious songs
Underground music
Urban Cowboy
Urban Folk
Urban jazz
Urtin duu
Ute
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
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
Xi'an drum music - popular around Xi'an, China, ensembles of percussion and wind instruments
Xoomii (khoomii, hoomii) - a type of Tuvan throat singing
Yang - form of Tibetan Buddhist chanting
Yanvalou
Yé-yé
Yo-pop
Yodeling
Young Brigade
Yukar
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