List of styles of music: N–R
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- Nagauta – Japanese style of shamisen-playing
- Nakasi – Taiwanese musical form
- 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 – Bosnian 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
- 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
- Neoclassical (Dark Wave)
- Neoclassical (New Age)
- Neoclassical music
- Neo-classical metal
- 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
- Neue Deutsche Härte
- Neue Deutsche Welle – a kind of German New Wave music
- 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 jazz
- New Pop
- New prog
- New Rave
- New Romantic – popular British New Wave from the early 1980s
- 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 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)
- Newgrass – progressive bluegrass
[edit] Ng
- Nganja
- Niche – sub-genre of UK Garage and Bassline House, name derived from the club in Sheffield, that first started putting on regular bassline nights
- Nightcore – sub genre for Vocal Trance music with high pitch and bpm.
- 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
- 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
- Nortec – electronic style from Tijuana, Mexico
- Norteño (Tex-Mex) – Modernized corridos pop music of Mexico
- Northern Soul – late 1960s variety of soul music from northern England
- Nota
- 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 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
- Nyatiti- a Kenyan song for the Luo community.
[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 – 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
- Ondo
- Opera – theatrical performances in which all or most dialogue is sung with musical accompaniment
- Operatic Pop – subgenre of pop music that is performed in a classical operatic style (also referred to as "Popera")
- Oratorio – similar to opera but without scenery, costumes or acting
- Orchestra – a large ensemble, especially one used to played European classical music
- 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
- Organum – Middle Ages polyphonic music
- Oriental metal – a subgenre of folk metal that incorporates elements of traditional Middle Eastern music.
- Orgel (Organ Orgue) – keyboard instrument with/without pedals
- 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
[edit] P
- P-Funk – 1970s fusion of funk, heavy metal and psychedelic rock, most closely associated with the bands Funkadelic and Parliament, who shared many members collectively known as P-Funk
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- Pagan metal
- 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
- 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
- Parranda – Afro-Venezuelan form of music
- Parody – humorous renditions of various songs
- Patriotic
- Pambiche (Merengue estilo yanqui)
- Paranda – Garifuna music of Belize
- Parang – Trinidadian Christmas carols
- Partido alto
- Pasillo
- Psychobilly – Punk rock and country
- Peace Punk
- Pelimanni music – Finnish folk dance music
- Petenera
- Peyote Song – a mixture of gospel and traditional Native American music
- Philadelphia soul – soft 1970s soul that came out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
[edit] Pi
- Piano blues
- Piano rock
- Pimba – Origin: Portugal.
- Piedmont blues
- Pinoy rock – rock and roll sung in Tagalog from the Philippines
- Pinpeat orchestra
- Piphat – ancient form of Thai classical ensemble
- Piyyutim
- Plainchant (Gregorian chant)
- Plena
- Pleng phua cheewit – Thai protest rock
- Pleng Thai sakorn – a Thai interpretation of Western classical music
[edit] Po
- Polka
- Polo
- Polonaise
- Pols – Danish fiddle and accordion dance music
- Polska
- Pong lang
- Pop folk
- Pop music
- Pop punk
- Pop rap
- Pop rock
- Pop sunda – Sundanese mixture of gamelan degung and pop music structures
- Pornocore
- Porro – Colombian big band music
- Post-disco
- Post-grunge
- Post-hardcore- Slite mixture of Hardcore and Punk rock
- Post-industrial
- Post-metal
- Post-minimalism
- Post-punk
- Post-rock
- Post-romanticism
- Power electronics
- Power metal
- Power noise (or rhythmic noise)
- Power pop
- Powerviolence (also known as power violence)
- Pow-wow – Native American dance music
- Ppongtchak – Korean pop music developed during the Japanese occupation
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- Praise song
- Program symphony
- Progressive electronic music
- Progressive folk music
- Progressive house
- Progressive metal
- Progressive bluegrass
- Progressive rock
- Progressive trance
- Protopunk
- Psychedelic music
- Psych folk or Psychedelic folk
- Psychedelic rock
- Psychedelic trance (Psy-trance)
- Psychobilly
- 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
[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
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[edit] Ra
- Rada
- Raga rock – Swiss soul, rock and Indian music fusion
- Raga
- Raggamuffin (Ragga)
- Ragga Jungle
- Ragtime
- Rai – Algerian folk music now developed into a popular style
- Raicore
- Raï'n'B
- Rake-and-scrape – Bahamanian instrumental music
- Ramkbach
- Ramvong
- Ranchera – pop mariachi from 1950s film soundtracks
- Rap
- Rara
- Rare groove
- Rasiya
- Rave
- Rebetiko
- Red Dirt (music)
- reel
- Reggae
- Reggae dancehall (see Dancehall)
- Reggae fusion
- Reggae highlife
- Reggaeton
- Rekilaulu – Finnish rhyming sleigh songs
- Relax Music
- Religious
- Rembetiko
- Renaissance music
- Requiem
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- Rhapsody
- Rhyming spiritual – Bahamanian hymns
- Rhythm and blues (R&B)
- Rhythmic noise (or power noise)
- Ricercar
- Rímur – Icelandic heroic epic songs
- Riot grrrl
- Rock
- Rock opera
- Rock and roll
- Rock en español
- Rockabilly
- Rocksteady
- Rococo
- Romantic period in music
- Rondeaux
- Ronggeng – a folk music from Malacca, Malaysia
- Roots reggae
- Roots rock
- Roots rock reggae
- Rumba
- African Rumba
- Cuban Rumba (yambu, columbia, and guaguanco)
- Flamenco Rumba also known as Gypsy rumba
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