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A
Aa-Ad - Af-Ak - Al - Am-An - Ap-Ax
- A cappella - any singing performed without instrumental backing
Al
- Aleatoric music - music the composition of which is partially left to chance
- Alpine New Wave
- Alternative country - reaction against the 1990s highly-polished Nashville sound
- Alternative dance
- Alternative hip hop - opposite of gangsta rap, usually includes whores and hoe 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
Ap-Ax
- Apala
- Arabesk - A versatile collection of music fusing eastern folk music, Arab classical music and various other genres
- Argentine rock
- Ars antiqua
- Ars nova
- Art rock
- Ashiq - Azeri 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
- Australian humour
- Avant-garde jazz
- Avant-garde metal
- Avant-garde music - any kind of experimental music incorporated bizarre ideas, structures or instrumentation
- Axé - pop music from Salvador, Bahia
B
Ba - Be-Bh - Bi-Bl - Bo - Br-Bu
Bac-Bal
- 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
- 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
- Bakou - trilling vocals that accompany Wolof wrestling
- Bagad
- Bal-musette
- Balakadri
- Ballad - generic term for usually slow, romantic, despairing and catastrophic songs
- Ballata
- Ballet (music)
- Balss
Bam-Bay
- Bamboo band - originally from the Solomon Islands, music played by hitting bamboo tubes with sandals
- Bambuco
- Banda - Mexican brass norteño pop music invented in the 1960s
- Bangsawan
- Bantowbol
- Barbershop music - extremely melodic a cappella vocal style
- 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
- Bastard Pop
- Batá
- Batá-rumba
- Batcave (club)
- Batucada
- Batuco
Be-Bh
- Beach music
- Beat
- 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
- Benga
- Bhajan - a northern Hindu religious song
- Bhangra - originally Punjabi dance music
- Bhangra-wine
- Bhangragga
- Bhangramuffin
Bi-Bl
- Big band music - large orchestras which play a form of swing music
- Big Beat - 1990s electronic music based on breakbeat with other influences
- Biguine - Martinican folk music
- Black ambient - blackened form of dark ambient 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
- Blues - African-American music from the Mississippi Delta area
- Blues ballad
- Blues-rock
- Biomusic
- Bitpop
Bo
- Bocet
- Bohemian Dub - Contemporary music style that blends Hip Hop, Dub, Funk, Pop and Klezmer music
- Boi - Central Amazonian folk music
- Bolero - Spanish and Cuban dance and music
- Bomba
- Bombay pop
- Bongo - distinctive African drum and style of drumming
- Boogie woogie - style of piano-based blues popular in the 1940s US
- Boogaloo - soul and mambo fusion popular in 1960s United States
- Bossa nova
- Bothy ballad
- Bouncy techno
- Boy band
Br-Bu
- Brass band
- Brazilian funk
- Brazilian jazz - bossa nova and samba mixed with American jazz
- Breakbeat
- Breakbeat hardcore
- Breakcore
- Brill Building Pop - named after New York's Brill Building at 1619 Broadway
- Britfunk
- Britpop
- British blues
- British Invasion
- Broadside ballad
- Broken beat
- Brown-eyed soul
- Brukdown - rural Belizean Kriol music
- Brutal death metal - a subgenre of death metal that focuses on a greater emphasis of heaviness, speed and aggression in its delivery
- 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
- Buiasche
- Bikutsi
- Bulerias
- Bumba-meu-boi
- Bunggul
- Bunraku - Japanese style originated from a kind of puppet-theater.
- Burger-highlife
- Burgundian School
C
Ca - Cc-Ce - Ch - Ci-Cl - Co - Cr-Cu
Cad-Cam
- Ca din tulnic
- Ca pe lunca
- 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
- 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
Can-Car
- Caña
- Candombe
- Canon
- Cantata
- 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
- Carimbó - dance music of Belém, Brazil
- Cariso
- Carnatic music
- Carol
- Cartageneras
Cas-Cav
Cc-Ce
- CCM (Contemporary Christian Music)
- Celempungan
- Cello rock
- Celtic
- Celtic fusion
- Celtic metal
- Celtic punk
- Celtic reggae
- Celtic rock
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
- Champloo
- Chalga
- Changuí
- Chanson
- Charanga
- Charanga-vallenato - 1980s mixture of salsa, charanga and vallenata
- Charikawi
- Chastushki - humorous Russian folk songs
- Chau van - Vietnamese trance music
Che-Chi
- Chemical breaks
- Chèo
- Chillout
- 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
Cho-Chr
- 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
- 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
- Christian electronic music
- Christian Hardcore
- Christian hip hop
- Christian Industrial
- Christian metal
- Christian music
- Christian punk
- Christian rock
- Chylandyk - type of xoomii which sounds like the chirping of crickets
Chu
- Chumba
- Chut-kai-pang
- Chutney - popular Indo-Caribbean music
- Chutney-bhangra
- Chutney-hip hop
- Chutney-soca - Chutney mixed with calypso and other influences
Ci-Cl
- Cigányzene
- Cînd ciobanu s-i a pierdut oile
- Cîntec batrînesc
- Ciobanul
- 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
Coc-Cor
- 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
- Conjunto
- Contemporary Africa music
- Contemporary Christian Music (CCM)
- Contemporary R&B
- Contonbley
- Contradanza
- Cool jazz
- Corrido
- Coladeira
- Combined Rhythm - music of the Dutch Antilles
- Corrido - storytelling ballads from Mexico
- Corsican polyphonic song
- Cothoza mfana
Cou-Cow
- Country blues
- Country Gospel a.k.a. Christian Country
- Country music
- Country rap
- Country rock
- Countrypolitan
- Couple de sonneurs - Breton dance music
- Cowpunk
Cr-Cu
- Crag
- Crossover music
- Crossover thrash
- 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
D
Da
- 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 - 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 Arabic and Indian music
- Dansband
- Danza
- Danzón
- Dark ambient
- Dark cabaret
- Darkcore (hardcore techno)
- Darkcore (drum & bass)
- Dark pop
- Darkwave
De-Dh
- De codru
- De dragoste
- De jale
- De pahar
- Deathcore
- Deathgrind - a fusion between death metal and grindcore
- Death industrial
- Death metal
- Death/Doom - a fusion between death 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
- Dhimotiká - traditional Greek songs
- Dhrupad - Hindustani vocal music performed by men singing in medieval Hindi
- Dhun
Di-Dr
- Digital hardcore
- 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
- Doomcore
- Downtempo
- Dream pop
- Drone doom (Also known as Drone metal)
- Drone music
- Dronology
- Drum and bass (DNB)
Du-Dz
- Dub
- Dub house
- Dubtronica
- Dubstep
- Dunun - Yoruba drum music
- Dunedin Sound - early 1980s alternative rock sound based out of Dunedin, New Zealand and Flying Nun Records
- Dutch jazz
E
Ea-En
- Early music
- East Coast blues
- East Coast hip hop
- Eastern Tradition of Sephardic music
- Easy listening
- Elafrolaïkó
- Electric blues
- Electric folk
- Electro
- Electro Backbeat
- Electro hop
- Electro-maximal
- Electro-industrial
- Electro punk
- 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
- Enka - Japanese pop music, using native forms
Ep-Ez
- Epic Metal
- Equdorian Moggadawn Power Stomp
- Eremwu eu
- Ethereal wave
- Euba
- Eurobeat
- Eurodance
- Europop
- Eurotrance (traditional dance music)
- Exotica
- Experimental music
- Experimental noise
- Experimental rock
- Extreme Metal
- Ezengileer - type of Tuvan xoomii said to imitate the trotting of horses
F
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
- Fjatpangarri - Aboriginal Australian music local to Yirrbala
- Flamenco - dance music of Andalusia, Spain
- Flower power
- Foaie verde - classical form of Romanian doina
- Fofa
- Folk metal
- Folk music
- Folk pop
- Folk punk
- Folk rock
- Folktronica
- Forró - extremely popular music of Northeastern Brazil
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
- Fricote - dance music from Salvador, Brazil
Fu
- Fuji - Yoruba vocal and percussion music
- Fulia - Afro-Venezuelan percussion music
- Funacola
- 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
- Funkcore
- 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
- Future jazz
- Futurepop - outgrowth of synthpop, EBM and darkwave
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