List of music genres and styles

This is a list of music genres and styles. Music can be described in terms of many genres and styles. Classifications are often arbitrary, and may be disputed and closely related forms often overlap. Larger genres and styles comprise more specific sub-categories.

Classical

Andalusian classical music Indian classical music Korean court music Persian classical music Kurdish classical music Classical Turkish music Western classical music Early music Renaissance music (1500–1600) Common practice period (1600–1900) Baroque music (1600–1750) Galant music (1720–1770) Classical period (1750–1820) Romantic music (1780–1910) 20th and 21st-centuries classical music (1900–present): Modernism (1890–1930) Impressionism (1875 or 1890–1925) Neoclassicism (1920–1950) High modernism (1930–present) Postmodern music (1930–present) Experimental music (1950–present) Contemporary classical music (1945 or 1975–present) Minimal music

Popular

Avant-garde & Experimental

Acoustic music Avant-garde music Crossover music Danger music Drone music Electroacoustic Industrial music Instrumental Lo-fi Musical improvisation Musique concrète Noise Outsider music Progressive music Psychedelic music Underground music

Blues

Country

Electronic

Folk

Hip-hop

Jazz

Pop

R&B & Soul

Rock

Regional

African

Antarctica Nunatak (band)

Asian

Middle Eastern

Arabic music Arabic pop music Fann at-Tanbura Fijiri Khaliji Liwa Kurdish folk Hayran Dengbêj Kurdish maqam Music of Israel Persian traditional music Sawt Music of Turkey Turkish folk music Gypsy music

Australasia & Oceania

Australian folk music Australian hip-hop Indigenous music of Australia Music of Hawaii Music of New Zealand Māori music Kapa haka Music of Polynesia Music of Samoa

European

Latin & South American

North American

Religious

Buddhist Christian Hindu Islamic Jewish Native American Neopagan Rastafarian Shinto Sikh Taoist Zoroastrian

Traditional folk

American patriotic music Christmas music Dance music Fado Huayno Mele Polka Ragtime Son mexicano Música criolla

Other A cappella Barbershop music Collegiate a cappella Ballroom dance music: pasodoble, cha cha cha and others Vogue (dance) Bedroom production Children's music Computer music Hyperpop Internet meme Drug use in music Incidental music or music for stage and screen: music written for the score of a film, play, musicals, or other spheres, such as filmi, video game music, music hall songs and showtunes and others Independent music Multi-instrumentalist Bassist Drummer Percussion Found object (music) Guitarist Pianist Keyboardist One-man band LGBT music Patriotic music: military music, marches, national anthems, War songs and related compositions Martial industrial Regional and national music with no significant commercial impact abroad, except when it is a version of an international genre, such as: traditional music, oral traditions, sea shanties, work songs, nursery rhymes, Arabesque and indigenous music. In North America and Western Europe, regional and national genres that are not from the Western world are sometimes classified as world music. Nerd music Theatre music Virtuoso Yodeling

These categories are not exhaustive. A music platform, Gracenote, listed more than 2000 music genres (included by those created by ordinary music lovers, who are not involved within the music industry, these being said to be part of a 'folksonomy', i.e. a taxonomy created by non-experts). Most of these genres were created by music labels to target new audiences, however classification is useful to find music and distribute it.

List of music genres and styles

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