List of styles of music: G–M
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[edit] G
[edit] Gaa-Gal
- Gaana - type of Tamil song from Tamil Nadu, India
- Gabber (also spelled as Gabba)
- Gagaku - Japanese classical music derived from ancient court traditions
- Gaita - Afro-Venezuelan form of loud percussion music
- Galant
[edit] Gam-Gan
- Gamelan - diverse Indonesian classical music, making use of a vast array of melodic percussion
- Gamelan angklung - Balinese gamelan played for cremations and festivals
- Gamelan bebonangan - Balinese cymbal-based processional gamelan
- Gamelan degung - a form of popular Sundanese gamelan
- Gamelan kebyar - an energetic form of large Balinese gamelan
- Gamelan salendro - gamelan dance music from West Java, known as lower-class music
- Gamelan selunding - possibly the oldest style of gamelan, played only in the village of Tenganan in Bali
- Gamelan semar pegulingan - sensual form of gamelan from Bali
- Gamewave
- Gammeldans
- Gandrung - Osing music performed at weddings.
- 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
- Garage rock
- Gavotte
[edit] Ge-Gn
- Gender wayang - Indonesian gamelan that accompanies shadow plays and other puppet plays
- Gending - a distinct gamelan music from southern Sumatra
- German Folk Music
- Gharnati
- Ghazal - vocal form originally Persian but since spread to Central Asia, Iran, Turkey and India
- Ghetto house - form of Miami bass influenced by house music which arose in Chicago
- Ghettotech - form of Miami bass which developed in 1990s Detroit
- Girl group - Girls singing rock songs
- Glam metal
- Glam punk
- Glam rock (alternately known as glitter rock)
- Glitch
- Gnawa
[edit] Go-Gr
- Go-go
- Goa (also known as Goa trance)
- Gong-chime music
- Goombay - Bahamanian percussion music
- Goregrind
- Goshu ondo - a form of popularized Okinawan folk music
- Gospel music
- Gothic metal
- Gothic rock
- Grebo
- Gregorian chant (plainchant)
- Grime - emerged from East London, dark electronic beats with rapping, related to UK Garage and 2 step
- Grindcore - fusion of Death Metal and Punk
- Groove metal
- Group Sounds - Japanese pop music from the 1960s, which included Appalachian folk music and psychedelic rock
- Grunge
- Grupera - a mixture of Mexican ranchera, norteño and cumbia
[edit] Gu-Gy
- Guajira
- Guasca - from Colombia
- Guitarra Baiana - from Pernambuco, Brazil, a style of playing frevo using electric guitars
- Gumbe
- Gunchei
- Gunka - military marches with Japanese influences, created during the Meiji Restoration
- Guoyue - invented conservatoire style of national Chinese music
- Gwo ka - Guadeloupan percussion music
- Gwo ka moderne - modernized gwo ka
- Gypsy jazz
- Gypsy punk
[edit] H
[edit] Hab-Has
- Habanera - Africanized danzón
- Hakka
- Halling
- 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
- Harmonica blues
- Hasaposérviko
[edit] Hat-Haz
- Hát chèo - an ancient form of Vietnamese stage opera
- Hát chau van - a popular spiritual folk music of Vietnam
- Hát tuồng (Hát bôi) - Vietnamese operatic music
[edit] He-Ho
- Heartland rock
- Heavy beat
- Heavy metal
- Hi-NRG
- Highlife
- Highlife fusion
- Hillybilly music
- Hiplife
- Hip hop
- Hip house
- Hindustani classical music
- Hiragasy
- Honky tonk
- Honkyoku
- Hora lunga
- Hornpipes
- Horrorcore rap
- Horror punk
- House music
[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
- Icaro
- Igbo music
- Illbient
- Impressionist music
- Improvisational
- Incidental music
- Indietronica
- Indie folk
- Indie music
- Indie pop
- Indie rock
- Indo jazz - jazz mixed with forms of Indian music
- Indoyíftika
- Industrial Death Metal
- Industrial hip-hop
- Industrial music
- Industrial musical (also known as corporate musical)
- Industrial metal
- Industrial rock (or coldwave)
- Instrumental rock
- Intelligent dance music (IDM, also known as intelligent techno, listening techno or art techno)
- International Latin - pop ballads from various Latin countries, especially Colombia
- Inuit music - music of the Inuit
- Irish folk
- Irish Rebel Music
- Iscathamiya
- Island - mix of reggae, ska, latin; music sounding from the island
- Isolationist
- Italo dance
- Italo Disco - Italian nightclub music
- Italo house
- Izvorna bosanska muzika - modernized folk music from Drina, Bosnia
[edit] J
[edit] Ja-Je
- Jaipongan - unpredictably rhythmic dance music from West Java, Indonesia
- Jam band
- Jam rock
- Jamrieng samai
- Jangle pop
- Japanese Pop
- Jarana
- Jarochos - folk music from Veracruz, Mexico
- Jawaiian - Hawaiian reggae
- Jazz
- Jazz blues
- Jazz-funk
- Jazz fusion
- Jazz Metal
- Jazz rap
- Jegog - Giant Bamboo ensemble of Bali, Indonesia
- Jenkka
- Jesus music
[edit] Ji-Jt
- Jibaro
- Jig
- Jig punk
- Jing ping
- Jingle - form of music used in television commercials
- Jit
- Jitterbug
- Jive
- Joged - a generic term for various types of dance music all over Indonesia
- Joged bumbung - a popular form of joged ensemble
- Joik
- Joropo
- Jota
- Jug band
- Juke joint blues
- Juju
- Jump blues
- Jumpstyle
- Jungle
- Junkanoo
- Juré
[edit] K
[edit] K-
[edit] Ka
- Kaba - Southern Albanian instrumental music
- Kabuki - lively and popular form of Japanese theater and music
- Kadans
- Kagok - Korean aristocratic vocal music accompanied by strings, wind and percussion instruments
- Kaiso - is a type of popular music in Trinidad and other Islands of the Caribbean such as Grenada, St. Lucia and Barbados. It is often used as a synonym for calypso.
- Kalamatianó
- Kalinda (kalenda, ti kannot)
- Kan ha diskan
- Kansas City blues
- Kantádhes
- Kantrum
- Kargyraa
- Kaseko - Surinamese folk music
- Kachāshī - lively, celebratory Okinawan folk music
- Katajjaq or Inuit throat singing - competitive duet style
- Kawachi ondo - a form of modernized Okinawan folk music
- Kayōkyoku - traditionally-structured Japanese pop music
[edit] Ke-Kh
- Kebyar - see gamelan gong kebyar above
- Kecak - Balinese "monkeychant"
- Kecapi suling - instrumental, improvisation-based music from Java
- Kélé
- Kertok - Malaysian xylophone music played in small ensembles
- Khaleeji - popular folk-based music of the Persian Gulf countries
- Khap
- Khene
- Khyal - Hindustani vocal music that is informal, partially improvised and very popular
- Khoomei
[edit] Ki-Kp
- Kinko
- Kirtan
- Kiwi rock
- Kizomba
- Klape - Dalmatian male choir music
- Klasik
- Kléftiko
- Klezmer
- Kliningan
- Kolomyjka
- Komagaku
- Konpa
- Kpanlogo
[edit] Kr-Kw
- Krakowiak
- Krautrock
- Kriti (krithi) - a Hindu hymn
- Kroncong - popular Indonesian music with strong Portuguese influence
- Krump - upbeat and fast-paced with bass and clapping
- Kuduro
- Kulintang - Traditional gong-chime music of the Philippines, Eastern Indonesia, Eastern Malaysia, Brunei and Timor
- Kulning - Swedish folk songs
- Kumina - music (and religion) of the Bongo Nation of Jamaica
- Kundiman - traditional Filipino songs adapted to Western song structure
- Kvæði
- Kwaito
- Kwassa kwassa
- Kwela
[edit] L
[edit] La
- La la - Louisianan Creole music
- Lambada
- Latin pop - pop music that has what may be perceived a Latin American influence
- Lavway
[edit] Le-Lo
- Legényes - Hungarian-Transylvanian men's dance
- Letkajenkka
- Lhamo - form of Tibetan opera
- Lieder
- Light Music - 20th Century light orchestral music (mainly British)
- Light Rock -also known as Soft Rock or AM Gold
- Liquid Funk
- Liquindi
- Lo-fi music
- Logobi
- Long-song - traditional Mongolian slow songs
- Louisiana blues
- Lounge music
- Lovers rock
- Lowercase
[edit] Lu
- Lu - unaccompanied Tibetan folk music
- Lubbock Sound
- Luk grung - Popular Thai music from the early 20th century
- Lullaby
- Lundu
- Lelio
[edit] M
Ma - Mb-Mg - Mi - Min-Mir - Mo-Mp - Mu
[edit] Mad-Mam
- Madchester (also known as Manchester)
- Madrigal
- Mafioso rap
- Magnificat
- Mahori - type of Thai classical music
- Makossa
- Malhun
- Maloya - traditional music from Réunion
- Mambo
[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
- Mango
- Mangue Bit - African style beat music style from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
- Manila sound - Early 1970s development in Pinoy rock which mixed Tagalog and English lyrics
- Manouche
- Mapouka
[edit] Mar-Maz
- Marabi
- Maracatu - African and Portuguese music popular around Recife, Brazil
- Mariachi - pop form of Son Jaliscience
- Marimba
- Marrabenta
- Martial Industrial - A mix of industrial and martial music. Similar to neo-classical and neo-folk. Usually very pro-Europe.
- Maskanda - popularized Zulu-traditional music
- Marinera - Dance of Perú
- Martinetes
- Mass
- Matamuerte
- Mathcore
- Math rock
- Maxixe
- Mazurka - Martinican Music
[edit] Mb-Mg
- Mbalax
- Mbaqanga (township jive)
- Mbube
- Mbumba
- Meditation
- Medieval folk rock
- Medieval metal
- Medieval music
- Mejorana
- Melhûn
- Melodic black metal
- Melodic death metal
- Melodic hardcore
- Melodic metalcore
- Melodic music
- Melodic trance
- Memphis blues
- Memphis soul
- Mento
- Merengue
- Merengue típico moderno
- Méringue
- Meringue
- Merseybeat
- Metal
- Metalcore
- Metallic hardcore
- Mexican rock
- Meykhana
- Mezwed
[edit] Mia-Mil
- Miami bass (booty bass) (Bass music)
- Microhouse
- Mini-jazz
- Minuet
- Milonga
[edit] Min-Mit
- Min'yo - Japanese folk music
- Mini-jazz - Caribbean jazz
- Minimalist music
- Minimalist trance
- Minimal techno
- Minstrel show
- Minneapolis sound
- Mirolóyia
[edit] Mo-MP
- Modinha
- Modern classical music
- Modern Laika
- Modern Rock
- Modinha
- Mor lam - Laotian and Thai ensemble music for vocals with accompaniment
- Mor lam sing - popular form of Laotian traditional music developed by Laotians in Thailand
- Moombahton
- Motorpop
- Motown
- Montuno
- Morna
- Mozambique
- MPB (música popular brasileira) - catch-all term for multiple varieties of Brazilian pop music
[edit] Mu
- Mugam - classical music of Azerbaijan, featuring sung poetry and instrumental passages
- Multicultural - music that is infused with several different types of cultural and ethnic influences and sounds.
- Murga - Uruguayan street carnival dance with heavy percussion, also popular in Argentina.
- Musette
- Mushroom Jazz
- Music drama
- Music Hall
- Música criolla - a coastal Peruvian music from the early 20th century, consisting of a variety of Western fusions
- Música llanera - harp-based form of folk music from Los Llanos, Colombia
- Música tropical - a form of Colombian salsa music
- Musiqi-e assil - Persian classical music
- Musique concrète (also known as electroacoustic music)
- Muwashshah
- Muzak (or elevator music)
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