Music Sound

G H I J K L M

G

Ga - Ge-Gn - Go-Gr - Gu-Gy

• G-funk

Gab-Gal

• Gabba (also spelled as Gabber)
• Gagá
  Gagaku - Japanese classical music derived from ancient court traditions
  Gaikyoku
  Gaita - Afro-Venezuelan form of percussion music
• Galant

Gam-Gan

• Gamad - Malay-style ballad
  Gambang kromong - popular, highly-evolved form of kroncong, originally adapted for the theater
  Gamelan - diverse Indonesian classical music, making use of a vast array of melodic percussion
  Gamelan angklung - Balinese gamelan played for cremations and festivals
  Gamelan bebonangan - Balinese cymbal-based processional gamelan
  Gamelan degung - a form of popular Sundanese gamelan
  Gamelan bang - Balinese sacred gamelan played for cremations
  Gamelan buh - Balinese form of gamelan
  Gamelan gede - ceremonial gamelan from the temple of Bator
  Gamelan kebyar - an energetic form of large Balinese gamelan
  Gamelan salendro - gamelan dance music from Sunda, known as lower-class music
  Gamelan selunding - possibly the oldest style of gamelan, played only in the village of Tenganan in Bali
  Gamelan semar pegulingan - sensual form of gamelan from Bali
  Gammeldan
  Gandrung - Osing music performed at weddings and other celebrations
• Gangsta rap - American form of hip hop music which focuses on underground lifestyles and illegal activities

Gar-Gay

• Gar - Tibetan classical music
• Garage
• Garage rock
• Garage techno
  Garrotin
  Gavotte
  Gay - Afro-Trinidadian call and response work song

Ge-Gn

• Gelugpa chanting - form of Tibetan Buddhist chanting, very austere and restrained
  Gender wayang - Indonesion gamelan that accompanies shadow plays and other puppet plays
  Gending - a distinct gamelan music from southern Sumatra
  Gharbi
  Gharnati
  Ghazal - vocal form originally Persian but since spread to Central Asia, Iran, Turkey and India
  Ghazal-song - a modernized version of ghazal influenced by filmi
• Ghetto house - form of Miami bass influenced by house music which arose in Chicago
• Ghettotech - form of Miami bass which developed in 1990s Detroit
• Girl group - Girls singing rock songs
• Glam rock
• Glitch
• Gnawa

Go-Gr

• Go go
• Goa (also known as goa trance)
• Golden Period of Karnatic classical music - music composed by the legendary Trimurti
  Goombay - Bahamanian percussion music
  Goregrind
  Goshu ondo - a form of popularized Okinawan folk music
• Gospel music
• Gospel-soca
  Gothenburg sound
• Gothic metal
• Gothic rock
• Granadinas
• Gregorian chant (plainchant)
• Grime - new Garage
• Grindcore
• Group Sounds - Japanese pop music from the 1960s, which included Appalachian folk music and psychedelic rock
• Grunge
• Grupera - a mixture of Mexican ranchera, norteño and cumbia

Gu-Gy

• Guaguanbo
  Guajira
  Guitarra baiana - from Pernambuco, Brazil, a style of playing frevo using electric guitars
  Guitarradas
  Gumbe
  Gunchei
  Gunka - military marches with Japanese influences, created during the Meiji Restoration
  Guoyue - invented conservatoire style of national Chinese music
  Gwerz
  Gwo ka - Guadeloupan percussion music
  Gwo ka moderne - modernized gwo ka
  Gypsy jazz
  Gyu ke - form of Tibetan Tantric chanting

H

Ha - He-Ho - Hu-Hy

Hab-Has

• Habanera - Africanized danzón
  Haiducesti
  Hair metal
  Hajnali - Hungarian-Transylvanian wedding songs
  Half calypso (semi-tone calypso)
  Hakka
  Hambo
  Hapa haole - a mixture of traditional Hawaiian music and English lyrics
• Happy hardcore
• Haqibah
• Hardcore hip hop
• Hardcore punk
• Hardcore techno
• Hard bop (hard bebop)
• Hard house
• Hard rock
• Hard techno
• Hard trance
• Harepa - harp-based music of Pedi people of South Africa
  Harmonica blues
  Hasaposérviko

Hat-Haz

• Hat cheo - an ancient form of Vietnamese stage opera
  Hát a dào - (ca tru) Vietnamese folk music
  Hát cai luong - Vietnamese popular opera
  Hat chau van - a popular spiritual folk music of Vietnam
  Hát tuông (Hát bôi) - Vietnamese operatic music
  Hawaiian steel guitar - (kila kila) invented by Joseph Kekuku, who slid a solid object across slacked guitar strings
  Hawzi - evolved form of al-andalous classical music which developed in Tlemcen
  Hazzanut

He-Ho

• Heavy compas
  Heavy dance
• Heavy metal
• Hesher
• Hi-NRG
• Highlands
  Highlife
  Highlife fusion
  Hillybilly music
  Hiplife
• Hip hop
• Hip hop and soul (HNS)
• Hip house
• Hindustani classical music
• Hiragasy
  Hiva usu - unaccompanied vocal Christian music of Tonga
• Honky tonk
• Honkyoku
  Hora lunga
  Hornpipes
• Horror punk
• Hot rod music
• House music

Hu-Hy

• Hua'er
  Huasteco - folk music from Huasteco, Mexico
  Huaynos - Andean dance music now most widespread in Peru
  Hula
  Humppa
  Hunguhungu
  Hyangak - Korean court music
  Hypnofolkadelia - see Acid croft
• Hymn

I

• Ibiza music
  Ibo
  Ice metal
  Igbo-highlife
  Ijexá
  Ilahije
• Illbient
• Impressionist music
• Incidental music
• Indie folk
  Indie garage
• Indie rock
• Indie pop
• Indo jazz - jazz mixed with forms of Indian music
  Indo rock
  Indoyíftika
• Industrial dance (or EBM, electronic body music)
• Industrial music
• Industrial musical (also known as corporate musical)
• Industrial metal
• Industrial rock (or coldwave)
• Instrumental pop
• Instrumental rock
• Intelligent dance music (IDM, also known as intelligent techno, listening techno or art techno)
• International Latin - pop ballads from various Latin countries, especially Colombia
  Inuit - music of the Inuit
  Iscathamiya
  Isikhwela jo
  Isolationist
• Italo Disco - Italian nightclub music
• Itsmeños - folk music of the Zapotecs of Mexico
  Izvorna Bosanska muzika - modernized folk music from Drina, Bosnia

J

Ja-Je - Ji-Ju

• J-pop - Japanese bubblegum pop

Ja-Je

• Jaipongan - unpredictably rhythmic dance music from Sunda, Indonesia
  Jaliscienses - Folk music of Jalisco, Mexico, and the origin of mariachi
  Jam band
  Jam rock
  Jamana kura
  Jamrieng samai
  Jangle pop
  Japanese pop - Japanese pop music using Western structures
  Jarana
  Jariang - Cambodian folk narratives
  Jarochos - folk music from Veracruz, Mexico
  Jawaiian - Hawaiian reggae
• Jazz
• Jazz blues
• Jazz from night
• Jazz fusion
• Jazz groove
• Jazz rap
• Jegog - Giant Bamboo ensemble of Bali, Indonesia
  Jenkka

Ji-Ju

• Jibaro
  Jig
  Jing ping
• Jingle - form of music used in television commercials
• Jit
  Jive
  Joged - a generic term for various types of dance music all over Indonesia
  Joged bumbung - a popular form of joged ensemble
  Joik
  Joropo
  Jota
  J'Ouvert
  Jug band
  Juke joint blues
  Juju
• Jump blues
• Jungle
• Junkanoo
  Juré

K

Ka - Ke-Kh - Ki-Kp - Kr-Kw

Ka

• Käng
  Kaba - Southern Albanian instrumental music
  Kabuki - lively and popular form of Japanese theater and music
  Kadans
  Kagok - Korean aristocratic vocal music accompanied by strings, wind and percussion instruments
  Kagyupa chanting - form of Tibetan Buddhist chanting
  Kaiso
  Kalamatianó
  Kalattuut - Inuit polka
  Kalinda (kalenda, ti kannot)
  Kamba pop
  Kan ha diskan
  Kansas City blues
  Kantádhes
  Kantrum
  Kargyraa
  Karma
  Kaseko - Surinamese folk music
  Katcharsee - lively, celebratory Okinawan folk music
  Kattajjaq - competitive Inuit throat singing
  Kawachi ondo - a form of modernized Okinawan folk music
  Kayokyoku - traditionally-structured Japanese pop music

Ke-Kh

• Ke-kwe
  Kebyar - see gamelan gong kebyar above
  Kecak - Balinese "monkeychant"
  Kecapi suling - instrumental, improvisation-based music from Java
  Kélé
  Kertok - Malaysian xylophone music played in small ensembles
  Khaleeji - popular folk-based music of the Persian Gulf countries
  Khap
  Khplam wai - a type of mor lam with a slow tempo which originated in Luang Prabang, Laos
  Khelimaski djili - Hungarian Gypsy dance songs
  Khene
  Khrung sai - type of Thai classical music
  Khyal - Hindustani vocal music that is informal, partially improvised and very popular
  Khoomei
  Khorovodi - Russian dance music

Ki-Kp

• Kĩkũyũ pop
  Kilapanda
  Kinko
  Kirtan
  Kiwi rock
  Kizomba
  Klape - Dalmatian male choir music
  Klasik
  Kléftiko
  Klezmer
  Kliningan
  Kochare - Armenian folk dance
  Kolomyjka
  Komagaku
  Konpa
  Koumpaneia - Greek Gypsy music
  Kpanlogo

Kr-Kw

• Krakowiak
• Krautrock
• Krill Krill
  Kriti (krithi) - a Hindui hymn
  Kroncong - popular Indonesian music with strong Portuguese influence
  Krzesany
  Kulning - Swedish folk songs
  Kumina - music (and religion) of the Bongo Nation of Jamaica
  Kun-borrk
  Kundere
  Kundiman - traditional Filipino songs adapted to Western song structure
  Kussundé
  Kutumba wake
  Kvæði
  Kveding - traditional Norwegian songs
• Kwaito
• Kwassa kwassa
  Kwela

L

La - Le-Lo - Lu

La

• La la - Louisianan Creole music
  Laba laba
  Laïkó
  Lais
  Lam
  Lam saravane - Laotian ensemble music from a town of the same name in southern Laos
  Lam sing
  Lambada - Bolivian and Brazilian dance music which arose from sayas and became internationally popular in the 1980s
  Lancer
  Langgam jawa - type of kroncong mixed with gamelan, popular around Solo, Indonesia
  Laremuna wadauman
• Latin jazz - jazz mixed with Latin musical forms like bossa nova or salsa
• Lavlu
  Lavway

Le-Lo

• Le leagan
  Legényes - Hungarian-Transylvanian men's dance
  Letka
  Letka-jenkka
  Lhamo - form of Tibetan opera
  Liedermacher
  Likanos
  Light Music - 20th Century light orchestral music (mainly British)
  Light Music (Nepalese) - Nepalese pop music, blending traditional styles, Western pop and Indian filmi
  Line dance
  Liquindi
  Llanera - Venezuelan music
  Llanto - a flamenco-influenced genre of Panamanian folk music
• Lo-fi
• Lo-pop Pop or Disco with extrerme cheap touch
  Loki djili - traditional Hungarian Gypsy songs
  Long-song - traditional Mongolian slow songs
• Louisiana blues
• Lounge music
• Lovers rai
  Lovers rock
• Lowercase - see Lowercase (music)

Lu

• Lu - unaccompanied Tibetan folk music
  Lubbock country music
  Lucknavi thumri - a type of thumri from Lucknow
  Luhya omutibo
  Luk grung - Popular Thai music from the early 20th century
• Lullaby
• Lundu
  Lundum

M

Ma - Mb-Mg - Mi - Min-Mir - Mo-Mp - Mu

• M-Base

Mad-Mam

• Madchester
• Madrigal
• Mafioso hip hop
  Maglaal (tuuli)
  Magnificat
  Mahori - type of Thai classical music
  Makossa
  Makossa-soukous
  Malagueñas
  Malawian jazz
  Maloya
  Maluf - evolved form of al-andalous classical music which developed in Constantine, Algeria
• Mambo

Man-Map

• Manaschi - Kyrgyz folk music made by travelling musicians also called manaschi
  Mandarin pop - early Taiwanese pop sung in Mandarin and popular with young listeners
  Manding swing
  Mangulina
  Manikay
  Manila sound - Early 1970s development in Pinoy rock which mixed Tagalog and English lyrics
  Manouche
  Manzuma
  Mapouka
  Mapouka-serré

Mar-Maz

• Marabi
  Maracatu - African and Portuguese music popular around Recife, Brazil
  Marching music
  Marga - Indian classical music
  Mariachi - pop form of son jalisciense
  Marimba
  Maritime folk
  Marrabenta
  Marrabenta rap
  Maskanda - popularized Zulu-traditional music
• Mass
• Martinetes
  Matamuerte
• Mathcore
• Math rock
• Mazurka

Mb-Mg

• Mbalax
  Mbaqanga (township jive)
  Mbira (Chimurenga)
  Mbube
  Mbumba
  Medh
• Meditation
• Medieval music
• Mejorana
  Melhoun
  Melhûn
  Melodic trance
• Memphis blues
• Memphis rap
• Memphis soul
  Mento
  Merengue
  Merengue típico moderno
  Merengue-bomba - Puerto Rican fusion of bomba and merengue
  Méringue
  Meringue
  Merseybeat
• Metal
• Mexican son - a broad group of Mexican folk music
  Meyjana
• MPB (musica popular Brasileira)

Mia-Mil

• Miami bass (booty bass) (Bass music)
• Microhouse
• Milo jazz
  Mini compas
  Mini jazz
  Minuet
  Missouri harmony
  Miami Sound - a popular form of salsa music
• Milongas

Min-Mir

• Min'yo - Japanese folk music
  Mineras
  Mini-jazz - Caribbean jazz
• Minimalist music
• Minimalist trance
• Minstrel show
  Minneapolis sound
  Mirabras
  Mirolóyia

Mo-MP

• Mod
  Modinha
  Modern classical music
  Modern rock
  Modinha
  Mohabelo - neo-traditional music from South Africa and Lesotho
• Mor lam - Laotian ensemble music for vocals with accompaniment
• Mor lam sing - popular form of Laotian traditional music developed by Laotians in Thailand
• Morna
  Motown
  Mozambique
• MPB (música popular brasileira) - catch-all term for multiple varieties of Brazilian pop music

Mu

• Mugam - classical music of Azerbaijan, featuring sung poetry and instrumental passages
  Muntuno
  Musette
  Music drama
  Music Hall
  Música campesina - Cuban rural music
  Música criolla - a coastal Peruvian music from the early 20th century, consisting of a variety of Western fusions
  Música de la interior - indigenous folk music from Colombia
  Música llanera - harp-based form of folk music from Los Llanos, Colombia
  Música nordestina - Northeast Brazilian popular music, centered around Recife
  Música tropical - a form of Colombian salsa music
  Musiqi-e assil - Persian classical music
  Musique concrète (also known as electroacoustic music)
  Mutuashi
  Muwashshah
  Muzak (or elevator music)