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A

Aa-Ak – Al-An – Ap-Ax

  • A cappella – any singing performed without any background music/instruments.

Aa-Ak

Al-An

Ap-Ax

B

Bac-Bal – Bam-Bay – Be-Bh – Bi-Bl – Br-Bu

Bac-Bal

  • Bachata – An Afro-Dominican style waltz, consisting of despairing and romantic ballads, popular among Dominican artists.
  • Baggy – the main music style of the Madchester scene that combined alternative rock and acid house, often creating a psychedelic and funky sound.
  • Baião – a Brazilian rhythmic formula built around the zabumba drum that later combined itself with elements of mestizo, European, and African styles.
  • Bakersfield sound – a raw and gritty country music style significantly influenced by rock and roll that acted as a reaction against the slick, overproduced Nashville sound.
  • Baila – a Sri Lankan style that begun among the Afro-Sinhalese (or Kariff) community.
  • Baisha xiyue – an orchestral Chinese style used by the Naxi people that is often found in Taoist or Confucian ceremonies.
  • Bajourou – initially an acoustic style of Malian pop music played at gatherings (particularly weddings), which has since become mostly electronic.
  • Bal-musette – 19th century style of French accordion-based dance music.
  • Balakadri – Guadeloupean music made from the quadrille, usually performed at balls
  • Balinese Gamelan – Javanese and Balinese style made from xylophones, drums, and plucked strings
  • Balearic beat - a style of house music that originated from the Balearic Islands.
  • Balkan brass – a Serbian music style made by soldiers that combined military brass with folk music.
  • Ballad – usually slow, romantic, despairing and catastrophic songs.
  • Ballata – 13th–15th century Italian musical and poetic form based on an AbbaA structure that acted as a form of dance music
  • Ballet – specific style of French classical music created to accompany the ballet dance
  • Baltimore club – a music style originated from Baltimore that combines hip hop music, breakbeat, house music.

Bam-Bay

Be-Bh

  • Beach – Californian genre from the 1950s that combined elements of all popular genres at the time, particularly big band and shag jazz
  • Beat – British fusion of all popular 1960s American styles – R&B, pop, jazz, rock
  • Beatboxing – a capella music created to emulate hip hop beats
  • Beautiful – term of endearment for various easy listening genres
  • Bebop – a fast-paced style of jazz popular in the 1940s and 1950s that replaced the dance-oriented swing music; known for its complex chord progressions, instrumental virtuosity, and the predominant role of the rhythm section.
  • Beguine/Biguine Music style from French territory in the caribbean, Martinique island and precursor of jazz
  • Beiguan – style of Chinese traditional music popular in Taiwan and the province of Zhangzhou
  • Bel canto – a light, sophisticated style of Italian opera singing
  • Bend-skin – urban Cameroonian music
  • Beneventan chant – plainsong originated from Benevento.
  • Benga – Kenyan popular music based on Luo and Kikuyu folk music
  • Bent edge
  • Berejú – Colombian dance with African origins
  • Berlin School – heavily experimental electronic music that acted as a more avant-garde form of Krautrock and inspired ambient and New Age music
  • Bhajan – Hindu religious music
  • Bhangra – a popular form of Punjabi dance music that uses western instruments along with traditional Punjabi instruments; named after the dance of the same name.
  • Bhangragga – a fusion of bhangra, reggae and dancehall

Bi-Bo

Br-Bu

  • Brass – music performed with brass instruments, prior to the advent of jazz
  • Breakbeat – a style of Electronic dance music known for its 4/4 drum pattern and heavy use of turntable scratching.
  • Breakbeat hardcore – a fusion of breakbeat and acid house
  • Breakcore – a fast and frantic style of breakbeat influenced by hardcore and industrial music that is known for its intentionally diverse range of samples.
  • Breakstep
  • Brega genre of Brazilian popular music
  • Breton – folk music of Brittany, France, known for its use of woodwind
  • Brill Building Sound – a distinct style of jazz and Latin-inspired pop developed in the Brill Building of New York, USA
  • Brit funk – funk performed by British musicians, often influenced by soul, jazz, and Caribbean music
  • Britpop – British alternative rock from the 1990s that subverted the depressing themes of the then-popular grunge movement in favor of jangly, optimistic music with lyrics often touching on the themes of partying and working class life. Despite its name, it is rarely viewed as a form of pop music.
  • British blues – a form of electric blues developed by British musicians.
  • British folk rock – associated with the folk revival of the 1960s, British folk rock tends to use modern, often electric, instruments alongside or in place of traditional and acoustic folk instruments
  • British Invasion – British musicians, primarily of the beat movement, who became popular in America during the 1960s
  • British hip hop – hip hop music originating from the United Kingdom.
  • Broken beat – a form of breakbeat played in a syncopated 4/4 rhythm with punctuated snare beats.
  • Brostep – an aggressive and metal-influenced style of dubstep popular in America
  • Brown-eyed soul – soul music performed by Latinos.
  • Brukdown – Belizean music inspired by European harmonies, African rhythms, and the call-and-response format
  • Bubblegum dance – fusion of Eurodance and bubblegum pop
  • Bubblegum pop – pop music known for its simplicity, happy and cute lyrics, and emphasis on image rather than substance.
  • Buddhist music
  • Bullerengue – style of Colombian music with African rithms and chants.
  • Bikutsi – Cameroonian EDM, originating in the Beti community
  • Bulerías – fast-paced flamenco music
  • Bunraku – Japanese folk music often played at puppet theaters
  • Burger-highlife – style of highlife played by Ghanaian-Germans
  • Burgundian School – group of French, Belgian, and Dutch composers active in the 15th century, known for their secular forms
  • Bush ballad – Australian folk music often dealing with themes of Australian spirit and rebellion
  • Byzantine music – Greek music performed during the age of the Byzantine Empire; known for its ecclesiastical form (i.e. chants).

C

Ca – Cc-Ce – Ch – Ci-Cl – Co – Cr-Cu

Cad-Cam

  • Ca din tulnic – Romanian folk music played with the alpenhorn
  • Ca trù – a style of Vietnamese chamber music performed by one lute player and a geisha-esque female singer, used to entertain wealthy audiences, who would be included in the performances, and to perform in religious ceremonies
  • Cabaret – an often jazz-informed style of music played at upbeat stageplays or burlesque shows
  • Cadence-lypso – fusion of kadans and calypso
  • Cadence rampa – upbeat style of kadans
  • Cải lương – modern Vietnamese folk opera
  • Cajun music – a form of American folk music developed by the Cajun people of Louisiana.
  • Cakewalk
  • Calinda – Trinidadian folk music played during practices of the martial art of the same name
  • Čalgija – Macedonian folk style
  • Calypso music – a form of Trinidadian popular music inspired by both African (via Kaiso) and French styles and is known for its lyrics dealing with the racist oppression of native Trinidadians at the time.
  • Calypso-style baila – fusion of baila and calypso
  • Campursari – Indonesian fusion genre, combining several folk styles with pop music

Can-Car

  • Can Can
  • Canadian blues - blues performed by Canadians.
  • Candombe – fusion of African and Uruguayan styles developed by African-Uruguayan slaves in the 19th century
  • Canon – any music that combines a melody with copies of itself
  • Cantata – any music sung by a choir with instrumental backing
  • Cante chico – the vocal component to flamenco music
  • Cante jondo – flamenco music that incorporates deep vocals
  • Canterbury scene – group of British avant-garde, progressive rock, and jazz fusion musicians based in the English city of Canterbury, Kent
  • Cantiñas – upbeat form of Andalusian flamenco music
  • Cantiga – Portuguese ballad style from the Middle Ages
  • Canto livre – Portuguese folk music known for its far-left political messages
  • Cantopop – any Chinese pop music sung in Cantonese
  • Canzone Napoletana – Italian music sung in Neapolitan
  • Cape Breton fiddling – a Celtic-style of fiddle playing.
  • Capoeira – Brazilian music played during performances of the martial art of the same name
  • Carimbó Music and dance from the north east of Brazil
  • Cariso – Trinidadian folk music, often considered an early form of calypso
  • Carnatic – southern Indian classical music
  • Carol – a festive song, often sung on Christmas or, rarely, Easter
  • Cartageneras – a style of flamenco known for its focus on folklore
  • Carnavalito

Cas-Cav

  • Cavacha – style of rhythm popular in Kenyan and Zairean music

Cc-Ce

Cha

  • Cha-cha-cha – Cuban folk music
  • Chacarera – Argentinian folk and dance music
  • Chakacha – music of the Swahili people of Kenya and Tanzania
  • Chalga – fusion of Bulgarian etno-pop and dance music with Eastern and Arab elements, popular in Southern Bulgaria
  • Chamamé – style of Argentinian, Mesopotamian, and Brazilian folk music
  • Chamarrita – style of Argentinian and Uruguayan folk music
  • Chamber – classical music performed for a small audience by a small orchestra
  • Chamber jazz – fusion of chamber and jazz music
  • Chamber pop – a style of indie pop that incorporates elements of orchestral pop in order to recreate the sounds of baroque pop.
  • Champeta – African-Colombian folk music
  • Changüí – Cuban music that fused African and Spanish styles
  • Chanson – French vocal-driven music
  • Chant – singing or speaking rhythmically to a very small number of pitches.
  • Chap hop – a variety of music originating from England that mixes the hip hop genre with elements from the Chappist or steampunk subcultures
  • Charanga – traditional Cuban dance music
  • Charanga-vallenata – fusion of charanga, vallenata, and salsa
  • Charikawi – music accompanying of the dance of the same name of the Garifuna people of west Africa
  • Charleston (dance)
  • Chastushka – humorous and fast-paced Russian and Ukrainian folk music
  • Chầu văn – a downtempo, trance-inducing style of Vietnamese folk music

Che-Chi

  • Chèo – a style of musical theater performed by Vietnamese peasants
  • Children's music – any music marketed towards children
  • Chicago blues – blues performed by Chicago inhabitants; considered the first form of electric blues.
  • Chicago house – house music performed by Chicago inhabitants; considered the first form of house music.
  • Chicago soul – soul music performed by Chicago inhabitants
  • Chicken scratch – fusion of Native American, White American, Mexican, and European styles, performed by the Native American Tohono O'odham people
  • Chill-out music – any music with a slow tempo designed to calm people after raves; originally a synonymous term for ambient house.
  • Chillwave – indie pop style known for its looped synths and calming effects
  • Chinese music – any music performed by Chinese people
  • Chinese rock – rock music performed by Chinese people, often fused with traditional styles
  • Chiptune – Electronic music that is made on vintage computers/game systems or emulations thereof. May also refer to electronic music that uses samples from video games or vintage computers.

Cho-Chr

Chu

  • Chula – dance and music genre which originated in Portugal,
  • Chumba – folk and dance style of the Garifuna people of west Africa
  • Church music
  • Chut-kai-pang – fusion of chutney, calypso, and parang
  • Chutney – Caribbean pop music that fuses calypso and cadence with several Indian styles
  • Chutney Soca – fusion of chutney and soca music

Ci-Cl

Coc-Cor

  • Coladeira – Cape Verdean folk music
  • Coldwave – French post-punk
  • College rock - a radio format made by and made for college students that centers on alternative rock.
  • Combined rhythm – Dutch Antillean folk music inspired by zouk, merengue, and soca
  • Comedy music – any music that incorporates heavy themes of humor and comedy
  • Comedy rap – fusion of comedy and hip hop music
  • Comedy rock – fusion of comedy and rock music
  • Comic opera – fusion of comedy and opera music
  • Compas – a modernized form of Haitian meringue music
  • Concerto – a three-part classical piece in which one instrument takes lead and is backed by an orchestra
  • Concerto grosso – a form of baroque concerto in which the soloists and orchestra alternate playing
  • Conga – Cuban music played to accompany the dance of the same name
  • Conjunto – fusion of Mexican and German styles developed by Mexican-Americans who had bought German instruments in Texas
  • Contemporary Christian music – pop music with overt Christian themes
  • Conscious hip hop – a style of hip hop music that's, while not directly political like its successor genre political hip hop, still talks about the struggles within the African-American community.
  • Contemporary R&B – a modern form of rhythm and blues (as in the catch-all term for African-American popular music) that usually has an overall hip hop/pop production style, electronic-backed rhythms, pitch corrected vocals, and a smooth, lush style of vocal arrangement that heavily uses the melisma singing technique.
  • Contradanza – 19th century Cuban dance music
  • Cool jazz – a relaxed, downtempo form of jazz heavily inspired by classical music, that existed as a reaction to the fast-paced bebop
  • Coon song – music about black stereotypes
  • Coptic music – music (usually chants) performed within the Coptic Orthodox Church; usually contains elements of local Egyptian music.
  • Corrido – Mexican storytelling ballad

Cou-Cow

Cr-Cu

  • Crabcore
  • Creole music – folk music developed by the Louisiana Creole people.
  • Cretan – Greek folk music performed by inhabitants of the island of Crete
  • Crossover thrash – fusion of thrash metal and hardcore punk
  • Crunk – fusion of hip hop and EDM, known for its heavy basslines and shouted, call-and-response vocals
  • Crunkcore – fusion of crunk and screamo
  • Crust punk – fusion of anarcho- and hardcore punk and extreme metal
  • Csárdás – Hungarian folk music
  • Cuándo – Chilean folk music genre.
  • Cuarteto – Argentinian merengue music, originating in the city of Cordoba, and influenced also by Spanish and Italian styles
  • Cueca – Argentinian, Chilean, and Bolivian styles
  • Cumbia – fusion of Colombian folk music and African and Spanish styles bought from slaves and colonists, respectively
  • Cumbia villera – cumbia performed by inhabitants of the shantytowns of Buenos Aires
  • Currulao
  • Cybergrind – fusion of grindcore and industrial
  • Cyber Metal
  • Czech bluegrass – Bluegrass music performed by Czech musicians.

D

Da – De-Dh – Di-Dr – Du-Dz

Da

  • Dabke – Arabic folk dance music, often played at weddings
  • Dadra – light vocal style of Hindustani classical music, originating from the Bundelkhand region
  • Dadra tala – a style of Hindustani classical music which utilizes six beats in two equal rows of three
  • Daina – Latvian folk music
  • Daina – Lithuanian folk music
  • Dance music – any music designed to make the listener dance.
  • Dance-pop – pop music with an emphasis on post-disco dance rhythms.
  • Dance-punk – a grittier yet more disco-like form of new wave music; considered a form of electronic rock.
  • Dance-rock – a fusion of post-punk and post-disco.
  • Dancehall – Jamaican pop music that abandons reggae's roots influences for a slicker, EDM-inspired production
  • Dangdut – melodic and heavily optimistic form of Indonesian pop
  • Danger – any music that will, somehow, potentially harm either the performers or the audience, linked heavily to noise rock
  • Dansband – Swedish folk music
  • Danza – Puerto Rican style of music that accompanies the ballroom-influenced dance of the same name
  • Danzón – Cuban dance music
  • Dappan koothu – Indian folk dance music, popular in the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, often used as filmi music in the movies produced in those states
  • Dark ambient – a style of industrial music that takes elements form ambient music to create a feeling of dread and foreboding, rather than the relaxation given off by most ambient music.
  • Dark cabaret – fusion of cabaret and gothic rock
  • Darkcore – chaotic and sinister style of jungle, which relied on pitch-shifting and horror movie audio samples
  • Dark pop – fusion of industrial/goth rock synthesizers with hip hop/techno drums
  • Darkstep – style of darkcore jungle that takes its signature sinister feel and fuses it with upbeat breakbeats and ambient noises, creating an excessively chaotic tone
  • Dark wave – excessively pessimistic style of post-punk, which relied on tales of realistic sorrow, rather than the fantasy elements of the then-popular gothic rock

De-Dh

  • De dragoste – Romanian love music
  • Deathcore – fusion of death metal and metalcore
  • Deathgrind – fusion of death metal and grindcore
  • Death industrial – fusion of death and industrial metal, linked heavily to the power electronics scene
  • Death metal – Extreme metal known for its distorted guitar structure, growling vocals, blast beat drumming and dark or violent lyrics.
  • Death-doom – fusion of death and doom metal
  • Death rock – style of gothic rock known for its scratchy guitars, and lyrics focusing on supernatural and pessimistic themes, sometimes delving into intentionally campy horror themes
  • Décima – Hispanic genre of sung poetry
  • Delta blues – blues performed by inhabitants of the Mississippi Delta; considered the first form of blues.
  • Deep funk
  • Deep house – form of Chicago house, inspired by jazz and soul music
  • Dementia – bizarre form of comedic avant-garde played by Dr. Demento
  • Descarga – a genre of improvised Afro-Cuban music
  • Desi – a style of Hindustani classical raga, associated with the Asavari and Kafi thaat
  • Detroit blues – blues music performed by inhabitants of Detroit, Michigan.
  • Detroit techno – techno performed by inhabitants of Detroit, Michigan, USA
  • Dhamar – a tala used in Hindustani classical music, associated with the dhrupad style, and played on a pakhawaj
  • Dhrupad – vocal style of Hindustani classical music, considered the oldest still being performed today
  • Dhun – a light instrumental form of Hindustani classical music

Di-Dr

  • Diablada – Telluric Bolivian folk music style.
  • Digital hardcore – fusion of hardcore punk and hardcore techno, known for its far-left lyrics
  • Dirge – a song of mourning, often played at a funeral
  • Dirty rap – hip hop with sexual and pornographic themes
  • Disco – a form of dance music with elements of soul music, pop music and salsa that was originated from music venues that were popular with African Americans, Latino Americans, Italian Americans, LGBT people, and psychedelic hippies.
  • Disco polo – Polish disco music
  • Diva house – style of house popular in LGBT nightclubs
  • Dixieland – an early, possibly the first, form of jazz developed in New Orleans.
  • Djent – subgenre of progressive metal known for its elastic power chords
  • Doina – Romanian folk music, informed by Middle Eastern styles
  • Dolewave - a form of alternative rock developed in Melbourne, Australia during the 2010s.
  • Dondang Sayang – love ballads from the Malaysian state of Malacca, influenced by Portuguese styles
  • Donegal fiddle tradition – an Irish style of fiddle-playing from the Donegal county
  • Dongjing – Chinese traditional music of Nakhi people of the Yunnan province
  • Doo-wop – a simplistic and pop-oriented form of R&B known for its vocal harmonies and little to no instrumentation
  • Doom metal – A style of heavy metal known for its low-tuned sound, slow tempos, clean and non-growled vocals and pessimistic lyrics
  • Downtempo – a slow-paced style of electronic music that differs from ambient music in that it also has a beat and rhythm. Sometimes treated as a synonym for trip hop, it differs from that genre by having a less "earthy" sound.
  • Dream pop – an atmospheric and melodic style of neo-psychedelia that makes the audience feel dreamy.
  • Drone metal – fusion of drone and heavy metal music
  • Drill music - Chicago rap, see Drill (music genre) for more
  • Drone music – a experimental, minimalist style of ambient music, known for drawn-out and repetitive tones, giving it a droning feel.
  • Drum and bass – a jungle-derived style of electronic dance music known for rapid-fire breakbeats and heavy basslines.
  • Drumstep – fusion of drum and bass and dubstep

Du-Dz

  • Dub music – electronic subgenre of reggae in which pre-existing tracks are heavily remixed, emphasizing the drum and bass (or riddim) and dubbing snippets from other works.
  • Dub techno - fusion of dub and techno
  • Dubtronica – fusion of dub and EDM
  • Dubstep – dub-inspired subgenre of UK garage known for its heavy basslines and reverberant drums
  • Dubstyle – fusion of dubstep and hardstyle
  • Dungeon synth
  • Dunun – family of west African drums
  • Dunedin sound – a style of indie pop based in Dunedin, New Zealand.
  • Dutch jazz – jazz performed by Dutch musicians

E

Ea-En – Er-Ex

Ea-En

Er- Ex

F

Fa – Fr – Fu

Fa-Fr

Fr

  • Franco-country – style of country music performed by French-Canadians
  • Freakbeat – a frantic, raw style of beat and British Invasion music
  • Freak folk – experimental style of folk, often folk-rock
  • Free improvisation – 1. completely uncontrolled musical improvisation; 2. an offshoot of free jazz.
  • Free jazz – a form of jazz that takes the genre's usage of musical improvisation to the extreme, almost to the point of eliminating jazz's other elements. Related and originally synonymous with avant-garde jazz, free jazz is completely improvisational.
  • Free tekno – style of techno developed by anarchists
  • French house – house music produced by French artists
  • Frevo – Brazilian dance styles associated with the Brazilian Carnivale

Fu

  • Fuji – Nigerian folk music
  • Full on trance – style of psychedelic trance known for its rolling baselines and confrontational themes
  • Funaná – Cape Verdean accordion-based dance music
  • Funeral doom – incredibly slow style of doom metal, made to mimic funeral music
  • Funk – a music style that combines of elements of blues, jazz, and soul music with the melodies and harmonies stripped in order to emphasize the bass guitar.
  • Funk metal – a fusion of funk and alternative metal.
  • Funk rock – a fusion of funk and rock music.
  • Funky house – fusion of funk and house music
  • Furniture music – a calming, live form of background music
  • Future bass – This genre stems from trap, juke and UK garage. it is focused on 808 drums and sawtooth synths
  • Future garage – style of UK garage that fused it with elements of all other contemporary EDM styles
  • Future soul
  • Futurepop – style of EDM known for its similarities to synthpop, EBM and uplifting trance, as well as its heavy sampling

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