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2-step garage
2 tone
4-beat
4x4 Garage - UK garage also known as Bassline
8-bit
UK Garage Mix - Old Skool 2 Step Anthems
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj9pVoAoUEg
A
Aa-Ak - Al-An - Ap-Ax
A cappella - any singing performed without instrumental backing
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Acid House - came about in the mid to late 1980s, originally in Detroit and Chicago, came through Ibiza to Britain.
Acid Jazz - a combination of jazz,funk,and hip hop
Acid Rock - a form of psychedelic rock, characterized with long instrumental solos, few (if any) lyrics and musical improvisation
Acoustic Music - a music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means.
Adult contemporary music is a broad style of popular music that ranges from lush 1960s vocal music to predominantly ballad-heavy music with varying degrees of rock influence.
Afrobeat - a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, and funk, fused with percussion and vocal styles, popularized in Africa in the 1970s.
[edit]Al-An
Aleatoric music - music the composition of which is partially left to chance
Alternative country - reaction against the 1990s highly-polished Nashville sound
Alternative dance - music combining elements of dance-pop (or other forms of electronic house or techno) and alternative rock genres such as indie rock.
Alternative hip hop - opposite of gangster rap, usually includes metaphorical aware lyrics (also known as alternative rap or Bohemian hip hop)
Alternative metal - catch-all term for heavy metal which uses techniques less conventional in heavy metal
Alternative rock - broad movement born in the 1980s generally relegated to the underground music scene and operating outside of the mainstream
Ambient music - music that can either be listened to intently, or be played in the background and easily be ignored. oftentimes used for relaxation and meditation.
Americana- style similar to folk music, but with elements of newer styles such as rock and rhythm and blues
Anime music - closely tied to J-pop but often accompanied by soundtrack albums
Anti-folk - sounds raw or experimental; it also generally mocks the seriousness and pretension of the established mainstream music scene in addition to mocking itself.
alternative rock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6jRkJvCmZo
Ap-Ax
Apala
Arabesque - A versatile collection of music fusing eastern folk music, Arab classical music and various other genres
Arabic pop - a subgenre of Arabic music fusing pop elements
Argentine rock
Ars antiqua - music of Europe of the late Middle Ages between approximately 1170 and 1310
Ars nova - music of the Late Middle Ages, centered in France, which encompassed the period roughly from 1310 to 1314
Art rock - rock music that tends to have "experimental or avant-garde influences" and emphasizes "novel sonic texture.
Ashiq - Armenian 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
Avant-garde jazz - sounds very similar to free jazz, but differs in that, despite its distinct departure from traditional harmony, it has a predetermined structure over which improvisation may take place.
Avant-garde metal - a subgenre of heavy metal music characterised by the use of innovative, avant-garde elements, large-scale experimentation, and the use of non-standard sounds, instruments, and song structures.
Avant-garde music - used at different times to mean different kinds of music (usually art music) considered ahead of their time and containing new, unusual, or experimental ideas or elements or fusing different genres.
Art punk
Axé - pop music from Brazil
[edit]B
Bac-Bal - Bam-Bay - Be-Bh - Bi-Bl - Br-Bu
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Bachata - originated in the countryside and the rural neighborhoods of the Dominican Republic. Its subjects are often romantic; especially prevalent are tales of heartbreak and sadness.
Baggy
Baião - a Northeast Brazilian rhythmic formula that became the basis of a wide range of music.
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 - Malian (Mali) pop music usually played at weddings and social gatherings.
Bakou - trilling vocals that accompany Wolof wrestling
Bal-musette - a style of French music and dance which arose in 1880s Paris especially the 5th, 11th, and 12th districts.
Balakadri - a traditional quadrille music that was performed for balls on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.
Balinese Gamelan - A form of Gamelan native to Bali
Ballad - generic term for usually slow, romantic, despairing and catastrophic songs
Ballata - an Italian poetic and musical form, which was in use from the late 13th to the 15th century.
Ballet (music)
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Bamboo band - originally from the Solomon Islands, music played by hitting bamboo tubes with sandals
Bambuco - the "unofficial music of Colombia". Folk music accompanied by a stylized group dance in either a 6/8 or 3/4 meter.
Banda - Mexican brass norteño pop music invented in the 1960s
Bangsawan - a type of traditional Malay opera. It was known to have developed from a sort of Indian theatre performance during the 19th century by visiting Indian travellers.
Bantowbol
Barbershop music - a style of a cappella, or unaccompanied vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a predominantly homophonic texture
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
Batá-rumba - a form of Rumba music popular mainly in Cuba
Batcave (club) - original gothic rock music.
Batucada - a substyle of samba and refers to an African influenced Brazilian percussive style, usually performed by an ensemble.
Batuco
[edit]Be-Bh
Beach music - a regional genre which developed from various musical styles of the forties, fifties and sixties. These styles ranged from big band swing instrumentals to the more raucous sounds of blues/jump blues, jazz, doo-wop, boogie, rhythm and blues, reggae, rockabilly and old-time rock and roll.
Beat- a fusion of rock and roll, doo wop, skiffle, R&B and soul. Beat groups characteristically had simple guitar-dominated line-ups, with vocal harmonies and catchy tunes.
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 - a kind of urban Cameroonian popular music.
Benga - a genre of Kenyan popular music
Berlin School of electronic music - a style of electronic music characterized by atmospheric sounds and the use of sequencers.
Bhajan - a Hindu religious song
Bhangra/pron. bhang-gruh - a genre from India. A type of popular dance music combining Punjabi folk traditions with Western pop music, fusing traditional drum-based music with elements of reggae, ragga, hip-hop, rock, soul, and dance.
Bhangra-wine
Bhangragga
Bhangramuffin
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Big band music - large orchestras which play a form of swing music
Big Beat - 1990s electronic music based on breakbeat with other influences
Biguine - Guadeloupean folk 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 - rhythm and blues or soul music performed by white artists.
Blues - African-American music from the Mississippi Delta area
Blues ballad - the sound of the blues using a blues scale and blues style chord progressions with a bridge using a different bluesy chord progression)
Blues-rock - a hybrid musical genre combining bluesy improvisations over the 12-bar blues and extended boogie jams with rock and roll styles.
Biomusic - a form of experimental music which deals with sounds created or performed by living things.
Bitpop - electronic music, where at least part of the music is made using old 8-bit computers, game consoles and little toy instruments. Popular choices are the Commodore 64, Game Boy, Atari 2600 and Nintendo Entertainment System.
Bihu-a popular folk music of Assam,India
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Brass band - a musical group generally consisting entirely of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.
Brazilian funk
Brazilian jazz - bossa nova and samba mixed with American jazz
Breakbeat - a collection of sub-genres of electronic music, usually characterized by the use of a non-straightened 4/4 drum pattern (as opposed to the steady beat of house or trance). These rhythms may be characterised by their intensive use of syncopation and polyrhythms.
Breakbeat hardcore - a derivative of acid house that combines 4-to-the-floor rhythms with breakbeats, and is associated with UK Rave scene.
Breakcore - an electronic music style that brings together elements of industrial, jungle, hardcore techno and IDM into a breakbeat-oriented sound that encourages speed, complexity, impact and maximum sonic density. It adheres to a loose set of stylistic rules.
Breton Music - traditional music of Brittany, France, that is played today yet, with pipes, drums and bombard. It's also known for its original and very ancient songs called "gwerz", or "kan ha diskan".
Brill Building Pop - named after New York's Brill Building at 1619 Broadway
Britfunk
Britpop
British blues
British Invasion - rock and roll, beat and pop performers from the United Kingdom who became popular in the United States from 1964 to 1966.
Broken beat - an electronic music genre which can be characterized by syncopated rhythm typically in 4/4 metre, with staggered or punctuated snare beats and/or hand claps.
Brown-eyed soul - a subgenre of soul music or rhythm and blues created in the United States mainly by Latinos in Southern California during the 1960s, continuing through to the early 1980s.
Brukdown - rural Belizean Kriol music
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
Bikutsi
Bulerías
Bumba-meu-boi
Bunraku - Japanese style originated from a kind of puppet–theater.
Burger-highlife
Burgundian School...
Byzantine Chant...
[edit]C
Ca - Cc-Ce - Ch - Ci-Cl - Co - Cr-Cu
[edit]Cad-Cam
Ca din tulnic
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
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
[edit]Can-Car
Candombe
Canon
Cantata
Cante chico
Cante jondo
Canterbury Scene
Cantiñas
Cantiga - Portuguese ballad form
Canto livre - Portuguese modernized fado
Canto nuevo - Bolivian pop-folk music which evolved out of Chilean nueva cancion
Cantopop - western-style pop music from Hong Kong
Canzone napoletana - urban songs from Naples
Capoeira music
Caracoles
Cardas
Carimbó - dance music of Belém, Brazil
Cariso
Carnatic music - South Indian classical music
Carol
Cartageneras
[edit]Cas-Cav
Cavacha
Caveman - The remixing/re-formation of songs using guttural noises and grunts, instead of the mainstream accepted lyrics of the current era.
[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
Chalga
Changuí
Chanson
Chant
Charanga
Charanga-vallenata - 1980s mixture of salsa, charanga and vallenato
Charikawi
Chastushki - humorous Russian folk songs
Chau van - Vietnamese trance music
[edit]Che-Chi
Chemical breaks
Chèo
Chicago blues
Chicago house
Chicago jazz (Dixieland jazz)
Chicago soul
Chicha - a Peruvian fusion of rock and roll, cumbia and huayno
Chicken scratch
Chillout
Chillwave
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
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
Christmas music
Christian electronic music
Christian Hardcore
Christian hip hop
Christian Industrial
Christian metal
Christian music
Christian punk
Christian rock
Christian ska
Chylandyk - type of xoomii[disambiguation needed ] which sounds like the chirping of crickets
[edit]Chu
Chumba
Chut-kai-pang
Chutney - popular Indo-Caribbean music
Chutney-soca - Chutney mixed with calypso and other influences
[edit]Ci-Cl
Cigányzene
Cinematic
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 music
[edit]Coc-Cor
Coimbra fado - a form of refined fado from Coimbra, Portugal
Coladeira
Combined Rhythm - music of the Dutch Antilles
Comedy rap
Comedy rock
Comic opera
Comparsa
Compas direct
Concert overture
Concerto
Concerto grosso
Conjunto
Contemporary Christian Music (CCM)
Contemporary R&B
Contradanza
Cool jazz
Corrido - storytelling ballads from Mexico
[edit]Cou-Cow
Country blues
Country Gospel a.k.a. Christian Country
Country music
Country-rap
Country rock
Countrypolitan
Country pop
Coupé-Décalé
Cowpunk
[edit]Cr-Cu
Cretan music
Crossover music
Crossover thrash
Crunk - American music
Crunk&B
Crunkcore
Crust punk
Csárdás
Cuarteto - Argentinian folk music
Cuddlecore
Cueca
Cumbia - popular dance music, originally Colombian but now popular across Latin America, especially Mexico
Cumbia villera - Argentinian type of cumbia which contains marginal lyrics
Cybergrind
[edit]D
Da - De-Dh - Di-Dr - Du-Dz
[edit]Da
Dabka (Dabke) - Palestinian dance music for weddings
Dadra
Daina (Latvia) - Latvian sung poetry
Daina (Lithuania) - Lithuanian traditional music
Dance music - any rhythmic music intended for dancing
Dance-pop - contemporary 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 Arab and Indian music
Danger music
Dansband
Danza
Danzón
Dark ambient
Dark cabaret
Darkcore (hardcore techno)
Darkcore (drum & bass)
Dark pop
Darkstep
Darkwave
[edit]De-Dh
De dragoste
Deathcore - a fusion between death metal and metalcore
Deathgrind - a fusion between death metal and grindcore
Death industrial
Death metal
Death/Doom - a fusion between death metal 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
Dhrupad - Hindustani vocal music performed by men singing in medieval Hindi
Dhun
[edit]Di-Dr
Digital hardcore
Disney
Disney pop
Dirge
Dirty rap
Dirty South (music) (also known as Southern rap)
Dirty Dutch
Disco
Disco house
Disco polo - Polish nightclub dance music, played in '90s.
Diva house
Dixieland jazz (Chicago jazz)
Djent
Doina
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
Drag
Dream pop
Drone doom (Also known as Drone metal)
Drone music
Dronology
Drum and bass (DNB)
[edit]Du-Dz
Dub
Dub house
Dubtronica
Dubstep
Dubstyle
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
Early music
East Coast blues
East Coast hip hop
Easy listening
Elafrolaïkó (see Laïko)
Electric blues
Electric folk
Electro
Electro Backbeat
Electro hop
Electro-industrial
Electro punk
Electro-swing
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
Emo rap
Emo pop
Emocore
Enka - Japanese pop music, using native forms
[edit]Ep-Ez
Eremwu eu
Ethereal wave
Ethereal pop
Eurobeat
Eurodance
Euro disco
Europop
Eurotrance
Exotica
Experimental music
Experimental noise
Experimental rock
Extreme metal
Ezengileer - type of Tuvan xoomii[disambiguation needed ] 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
Flamenco - dance music of Andalusia, Spain
Flower power
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
Frevo - folk music from Recife, Brazil
[edit]Fu
Fuji - Yoruba vocal and percussion music
Fulia - Afro-Venezuelan percussion music
Full On
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
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
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