Music Sound

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N

• Na trapeza - Greek-Turkish slow songs
  Nagauta - Japanese style of shamisen-playing
  Naghmehs
  Nakasi - Taiwanese musical form
  Naked funk
  Nangma - Tibetan dance music
  Nanguan - Taiwanese instrumental music
  Narcocorrido - Spanish for "Drug ballad", this Mexican music's theme was equivalent to gangster rap
  Narodna muzika - Serbian folk music
  Nasheed - a capella music closely related with Islamic revival in the 20th century
• Nashville Sound - pop-country music based out of Nashville, Tennessee
• Native American gospel - gospel music performed by Native Americans
  Nederpop - popular music of the Netherlands, especially in the Dutch language
  Néo kýma
  Neomelodici - modern Neapolitan pop songs
• Neo-classicism
• Neo-clerical ghazni
  Neo-ska - late 20th century revival of Jamaican ska
  Neo-swing - late 20th century revival of swing music
  Nerdcore hiphop
  Neue Deutsche Welle - a kind of German New Wave music
  Neue Volksmusik
• New Age music - numerous varieties of music associated with New Age spirituality and culture, especially including atmospheric and natural sounds
• New Beat - a downtempo music style from Belgium, contemporary to Chicago House and Detroit Techno.
  New Instrumental
• New Jack Swing (New Jack R&B, Swingbeat) - late 1980s American fusion of hip hop music, R&B, doo wop and soul music
• New Orleans blues - piano and horn-heavy blues from the city of New Orleans, Louisiana
  New Orleans contemporary brass band
  New Orleans jazz
• New Romantic - popular British New Wave from the early 1980s
• New rumba
  New school hip hop - generic term for hip hop music recorded after about 1989
  New Taiwanese Song - modern Taiwanese pop music which combines ballads, rock and roll and hip hop
  New Wave bhangra (Fusion bhangra)
  New Wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) - mid- to late 1970s heavy metal coming out of the United Kingdom
• New Wave - melodious pop outgrowth of arty punk rock, also used as description of an emerging sound in any genre (e.g. Alpine New Wave)
• New York blues - jazzy, urban blues from the early 20th century
  Newgrass - progressive bluegrass
  Nganja
  Nhac dan toc cai bien - modernized forms of Vietnamese folk music which arose in the 1950s
  Nhac tai tu - Vietnamese chamber music which accompanies cai luong
  Nha Nac
  Nisiótika - folk songs of the Greek islands
  No Wave - avant-garde late 1970s outgrowth of New Wave and punk rock
  Noh - highly-stylized Japanese theater and music style
• Noise music - style of avant-garde music, most closely associated with Japan
• Noise pop - experimental 1990s outgrowth of punk
• Noise rock - atonal punk rock from the 1980s
• Nongak - Korean folk music played by 20-30 performers on different kinds of percussion instruments
  Norae Undong - Korean rock music with socially aware lyrics
  Nordic folk music
  Nordic folk dance music
• Nortec - electronic style from Tijuana, Mexico
• Norteño (Tex-Mex) - Modernized corridos pop music of Mexico
• Northern harmony
  Northern Soul - late 1960s variety of soul music from northern England
  Northumbrian smallpipe music
  Nota
  Nova canção - popular 1950s and 60s fado in Portugal and folk-based singer-songwriters in Spain
  Novokomponovana narodna muzika - modernized Serbian folk music
  Nu breaks
• Nu jazz - fusion of late 1990s jazz and electronic music
• Nu metal - fusion of heavy metal music with genres such as hip hop, funk, grunge and electronic music
• Nu-NRG - a harder and faster version of Hi-NRG
• Nu soul (neo soul) - popular fusion of hip hop music and soul music
  Nueva canción - Chilean pop-folk music which influenced by native Chilean and Bolivian forms
  Nyingmapa chanting - form of highly rhythmic and elaborate Tibetan Buddhist chanting

O

• Oi! - 1980s style of British punk rock
• Old school hip hop - generic term for hip hop music recorded before approximately 1989
• Old time country
  Old-time - archaic term for many different styles that were an outgrowth of Appalachian folk music and fed into country music
  Olonkho - Yakut epic songs
  Oltului
  Omutibo
  Ondo
  On ikki muqam - Uyghur classical suite in 12 parts
  Oom pah band
• Opera - theatrical performances in which all or most dialogue is sung with musical accompaniment
• Oratorical calypso
• Oratorio - similar to opera but without scenery, costumes or acting
• Orchestra - a large ensemble, especially one used to played Western classical music
• Orchestre
  Organic ambient - often acoustic ambient music which uses instruments and styles borrowed from world music
  Organic house
  Organum - Middle Ages polyphonic music
  Oriental Foxtrot
• Oriental metal - Israeli fusion of death and doom metal
• Orovela - eastern Georgian work songs
  Orgel (Organ Orgue) - keyboard instrument with/without pedals
  Orquestas Tejanas
  Ottava rima - Italian rhyming stanzas
• Outlaw country - late 1960s and 70s form of country music with a hard-edged sound and rebellious lyrics
• Outsider music - generic term for music performed by outsiders
  Özgün
  Ozwodna

P

• P-Funk - 1970s fusion of funk, heavy metal and psychedelic rock, most closely associated with the bands Funkadelic and Parliament, who shared many members collectively known as P-Funk
• Padams
  Paisley Underground - 1980s style of alternative rock that drew heavily on psychedelia
  Palm wine - fusion of numerous West African, Latin American and European genres, popular throughout coastal West Africa in the 20th century
  Palos
  Panambih - tembang sunda that uses metered poetry
  Panchai baja - Nepalese wedding music
  Pansori - Korean folk music played by a singer and a drummer
  Parisian soukous
  Parranda - Afro-Venezuelan form of music
  Parody - humorous renditions of various songs
  Payada de contrapunto
  Pambiche (Merengue estilo yanqui)
  Paranda - Garifuna music of Belize
  Parang - Trinidadian Christmas carols
  Partido alto
  El pasacalle
  Paseo
  Pasillo
  Peace Punk
  Pedo punk
  Pelimanni music - Finnish folk dance music
  Pennywhistle jive
  Peroveta anedia
  Petenera
  Peyote Song - a mixture of gospel and traditional Native American music
  Philadelphia soul - soft 1970s soul that came out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Phleng luk tung
  Piano blues
• Piano rock
• Piedmont blues
• Pineal Polka
  Pinoy rock - rock and roll sung in Tagalog from the Philippines
  Pinpeat orchestra
  Piphat - ancient form of Thai classical musical ensemble
  Pirekaus - traditional love songs of the Purépecha of Mexico
  Pisiq - Greenlandic folk song
  Piyyutim
  Plachi - melancholic Russian folk songs
  Plainchant (Gregorian chant)
  Plena
  Pleng phua cheewit - Thai protest rock
  Pleng Thai sakorn - a Thai interpretation of Western classical music
  Poco-poco - Indonesian modern music which fuses disco with eastern Indonesian dance music
  Polihet
  Political Grindcore
• Polka
• Polo
  Polonaise
  Pols - Danish fiddle and accordion dance music
  Polska
  Pong lang
  Pop-makossa
  Pop melayu - Malay pop music with dangdut overlay
  Pop mop - Mongolian pop music
• Pop music
• Pop punk
• Pop rai
  Pop sunda - Sundanese mixture of gamelan degung and pop music structures
• Popular music
• Porngroove - A variation on Funk-Hop with a distinctive emphasis on 'Bow Chicka Bow Wow' pioneeredby Northwood Hills super group GGNXTMAP
  Porro - Colombian big band music
  Portuguese Shangaan - South African and Mozambiquan mixture of traditional Tsonga and Portuguese music
• Post-minimalism
• Post punk
• Post-rock
• Post-romanticism
  Power electronics
• Power metal
• Power noise (or rhythmic noise)
• Power pop
• Pow-wow - Native American dance music
  Ppongtchak - Korean pop music developed during the Japanese occupation
  Praise song
  Pre-Computer
  Presleyan music - Elvis Presley meshes so many different sounds that it is difficult to place him in any one genre of music and with a hitlist like his he is practically his own genre. Err... it's rock-'n-roll
  Primus
  Program symphony
  Progressive Acoustic Urban Math Folk
• Progressive electronic music
• Progressive house
• Progressive metal
• Progressive bluegrass
• Progressive rock
• Progressive trance
• Psychedelic music
• Psych folk or Psychedelic folk
• Psychedelic trance (Psy-trance)
• Psychobilly
• Psychosomatic trance
  Psych-pop
  Punjabi thumri - a type of thumri from Punjab
  Punk Cabaret - a fusion of musical theater and cabaret style music with the aggressive, raw nature of punk rock.
• Punk rock
• Punta
  Punta rock - 1970s Belizean music

Q

• Quan ho - Vietnamese vocal music which originated in the Red River Delta
  Qasidah - Epic religious poetry accompanied by percussion and chanting
  Qasidah modern - Qasidah updated for mainstream audiences
  Qawwali - Sufi religious music since updated for mainstream audiences, originally developed in Pakistan
  Quadrille
• Queercore
• Quiet Storm

R

• Rada
  Raga rock - Swiss soul, rock and Indian music fusion
  Ragas
  Raggamuffin (Ragga)
  Ragga-chutney
  Ragga-soca
  Ragga-zouk - a fusion of reggae, dub music and zouk
• Ragtime
• Rai - Algerian folk music now developed into a popular style
  Rake-and-scrape - Bahamanian instrumental music
  Rambutan
  Ramkbach
  Ramvong
  Ranchera - pop mariachi from 1950s film soundtracks
  Random dance
• Rap (hip hop)
• Rap dogba
  Rap metal
• Rapcore
• Rapso
  Rara
  Rare groove
  Rasiya
  Rateliai
• Rave
• Rebetiko
  Rebita
  reel
• Reggae
• Reggae highlife
  Reggaeton
  Reinlender
  Rekilaulu - Finnish rhyming sleigh songs
  Rembetiko
• Renaissance music
• Rhapsody
  Rhyming spiritual - Bahamanian hymns
• Rhythm and blues (R&B)
• Rhythmic noise (or power noise)
• Ricercar
  Rímur - Icelandic heroic epic songs
  Ring Bang - the Barbadian sound of soca
  Riot grrl
  Rob Schneider
• Rock
• Rock opera
• Rock and roll
• Rock en espanol
• Rockabilly
• Rocksteady
  Rococo
  Rodeo music
  Rokon fada
  Romantic period in music
  Romeras
  Rondeaux
  Ronggeng - a folk music from Malacca, Malaysia
• Roots reggae
• Roots rock
• Roots rock reggae
  Ruem trosh - Cambodian traditional music
• Rumba
• Rumba gitana - French Gypsy music
• Runddan
  Runolaulu - Finnish folk songs
  Runo-song - Estonian folk music