List of music styles

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List of popular music genres

This is a list of music styles. Music can be described in terms of many genres and styles. Classifications are often arbitrary, and closely related forms often overlap. Larger genres and styles comprise more specific sub-categories. Applicable styles are classified in this list using AllMusic^[1] genre categorization.^[2]

African

Arabic music

Asian

• Fann at-Tanbura
• Fijiri
• Khaliji
• Liwa
• Sawt

Avant-garde

• Experimental music
• Noise
• Lo-fi
• Musique concrète
• Electroacoustic

Blues

Caribbean and Caribbean-influenced

Comedy

• Comedy music
• Comedy rock
• Novelty music
• Parody music

Country

Easy listening

Electronic music

Folk

Hip hop

Jazz

Latin

Pop

R&B and soul

Rock

Classical music

• Ancient music
• Early music
  • Medieval music (500–1400)
    • ars antiqua (1170–1310)
    • ars nova (1310–1377)
    • ars subtilior (1360–1420)
  • Renaissance music (1400–1600) eras.
  • Baroque music (1600–1750)
  • galant music (1720s–1770s)
• Common-practice period
  • Baroque music (1600–1750)
  • galant music (1720s–1770s)
  • Classical period (music) (1750–1820)
  • Romantic music (c.1780–1910)
• 20th and 21st centuries (1901–present):
  • Modernism (music) (1890–1930)
  • Impressionism in music (1875 or 1890–1925)
  • Neoclassicism (music) (1920–1950)
  • high modernism (1930–present)
  • postmodern music (1930–present) eras
  • Experimental music (1950–present)
  • Contemporary classical music (1945 or 1975–present)

Other

• Music written for the score of a play, musicals, or similar: Filmi, incidental music, video game music, music hall songs and showtunes
• Ballroom dance music: pasodoble, cha cha cha and others
• Religious music: Gregorian chant, spirituals, hymns and the like
• Occasional music: Military music, marches, national anthems and related compositions
• 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.

References

External links

• Genres of popular music - Interactive relationships diagram

Bibliography

• Borthwick, Stuart, & Moy, Ron (2004) Popular Music Genres: An Introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Fabbri, Franco (1982) A Theory of Popular Music Genres: Two Applications. In Popular Music Perspectives, edited by David Horn and Philip Tagg, 52-81. Göteborg and Exeter: A. Wheaton & Co., Ltd.
• Frith, Simon (1996) Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
• Holt, Fabian (2007) Genre in Popular Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Negus, Keith (1999) Music Genres and Corporate Cultures. London and New York: Routledge.

See also

• Genealogy of musical genres

This list is split into four separate pages:

• List of styles of music: A–F
• List of styles of music: G–M
• List of styles of music: N–R
• List of styles of music: S–Z