Music Sound

S T U V W X Y Z

S

• Sabar - drumming style found in Senegal
  Sacred Harp
  Sadcore
  Saetas
  Saibara
  Saiyidi - folk music of the upper Nile Delta
  Sakyapa chanting - form of Tibetan Buddhist chanting
  Salegy
  Salsa - fusion of multiple Cuban- and Puerto Rican-derived pop genres from immigrants in New York City
  Salsa erotica - lyrically explicit form of salsa romantica
  Salsa gorda
  Salsa romantica - a soft, romantic form of salsa music
  Saltarello
  Salve
  Samba - form of Brazilian popular music
  Samba-reggae - a genre of samba with a choppy, reggae-like rhythm. samba and reggae fusion
  Samba de breque - traditional samba with social humorous comentaries and caracterized by a silence break (hence, "breque") of 2 compass or more, while the singer keeps the lyrics*
  Samba-canção - traditional samba in slow tempo and with romantic lyrics. influenced by bolero
  Samba de enredo(or Samba-enredo) - Samba played during Carnival celebrations in fast tempo
  Samba de pagode - popular dance-oriented samba. (pagode is an informal gathering of neighboors and relatives in spare time for dance and meal).
  Sambai
  Sangeo - Afro-Venezuelan form of percussion music
  Sanjo - Korean instrumental folk music
  Sanjuanitos
  Sarandunga
  Sardinian polyphonic chanting
  Sato kagura
  Sawahili - folk music from the Mediterranean coast of Egypt
  Sawt - urban music from Kuwait and Bahrain
  Sax jive
  Sayas - Bolivian dance music which was popularized as lambada in the 1980s
  Sazdohol
  Scandinavian metal (Viking metal)
  Schottisch
  Schranz
  Scrumpy and Western - folk music from West Country of England
  Sea shanty
  Sean nós
  Second Viennese School
  Sega music
  Seggae
  Seis
  Semba
  Semi-tone calypso (Half calypso)
  Sephardic music
• Serialism
• Serrana
  Set dance
  Sevdalinka - Bosnian urban popular music
  Sevillana
  Shabab
  Shabad
  Shalako - Armenian folk dance
  Shan'ge - Taiwanese Hakka mountain songs
  Shango
  Shape note
  Sharkan - American Christian chanting
  Shawm and drum - Instrumental pairing common in Gypsy music
  Shlager
  Shibuya-kei
  Shidaiqu - Hong Kong-based form of traditional music updated for pop audiences and sung in Mandarin
  Shima uta - a form of Okinawan dance music
  Shin-min'yo - a modernized form of min'yo, or folk music
• Shoegazing
• Shoka - Japanese songs written during the Meiji Restoration to bring Western music to Japanese schools
  Shomyo - Japanese Buddhist chanting
  Showtunes
  Sica
  Siguiriyas
  Silat - Malaysian mixture of music, dance and martial arts
  Sinawi - Korean religious music meant for dancing; it is improvised and reminiscent of jazz
  Singers & Standards
  Singer-songwriter
  Single tone calypso
  Sinjonjo
  Sizhu - folk ensembles from southern China
• Ska
• Ska punk
• Skacore (third wave of ska)
  Skald
  Skate punk
  Skiffle
  Skotsploech - traditional Frisian ensemble music
  Skillingstryk
  Slack-key guitar (kihoalu) - Hawaiian form invented by retuning open strings on a guitar
  Slängpolska
  Slide
  Slow airs
  Slowcore
  Sludge metal
  Smooth jazz
  S'o wa mbe
  Soca
  Soca-bhangra
  Soca-funk
  Soft ambient
  Soft rock
  Solea (soleares)
  Sombient
  Son
  Son-batá (batá rock)
  Son montuno - Cuban folk music
• Sonata
• Songo - a mixture of changuí and son montuno
  Songo-salsa - a mixture of songo, hip hop and salsa
  Sonido
  Soukous
• Soul blues
• Soul jazz
• Soul music
• Southern Harmony
• Southern hip hop
• Southern rock
• Southern soul
  Space music
• Space rock
• Spacesynth
• Spectralism
• Speedcore
• Speed garage
• Speed metal
• Spirituals
• Spouge - Barbadian folk music
• Square dance
• St. Louis blues
• St. Louis soul
  Stambolovski orkestri
  Staroprazske pisnieky - pub songs from Prague
  Steelband
  Stev - short, often improvised, Norwegian folk songs
  Stoner metal
  Straight edge
  Strathspeys
  Street songs - bawdy adolescent chants of unknown authorship
  Stride
  String - 1980s Thai pop music
  String quartet
  Stubenmusik - Bavarian string ensembles
• Suite
• Suomirock
  Suomitrance
  Super Eurobeat
  Surf ballads
  Surf instrumental
• Surf music
• Surf pop
• Surf rock
• Sutartines
  Swahili sound
  Sway
• Swamp blues
• Swamp pop
  Swingbeat (New Jack Swing, New Jack R&B)
• Swing music
• Sygyt - type of xoomii (Tuvan throat singing), likened to the sound of whistling
• Symphonic black metal
• Symphonic poem
• Symphony
• Synth metal
• Synth pop
• Synth rock
• Synthpunk
• Syrtó

T

• Taarab
  Tættir
  Tai tu - Vietnamese chamber music
  Taiwanese pop - early Taiwanese pop music influenced by enka and popular with older listeners
  Tala - a rhythmic pattern in Indian classical music
  Tamborito - Panamanian dance music
  Tambu
  Tamburitza
  Tamil tiruppukazh
  Táncház - Hungarian dance music
• Tango - Argentinian dance music that became internationally popular in the 1920s
• Tango-canción - the first wildly popular form of tango in Argentina
  Tango flamenco
  Tanguk - a form of Korean court music that includes elements of Chinese music
  Tanjidor - traditional, instrumental music from Indonesia with various brass intruments, usually played in processions
  Talempong - a distinct Minangkabau gamelan music
  Taibubu
  Tapany maintso
  Tappa
  Tarabu
  Tarana - form of vocal music from northern India using highly rythmic nonsense syllables
  Tarannum
  Tarantella
  Tarantolati - Calabrian folk healing ritual
  Taranto
  Tassou - Senegalese rapping
  Tawshih
  Tchink-system
  Tchinkoumé
• Tech house
• Techno
• Techno-tribal
• Technoid
• Tembang sunda - Sundanese sung free verse poetry
  Teen pop
  Tejano
  Television themes
• Texas blues
• Tex-Mex - American term for that which is known as norteño in Mexico
  The Birmingham Sound
• Thrash metal
• Thresher
  Thumri - a type of popular Hindustani vocal music
  Tibetan pop - pop music heavily influenced by Chinese forms, emerging in the 1980s
  Tientos
  Thillana - form of vocal music from South India using highly rhythmic nonsense syllables
  Timbila - form of folk music in Mozambique
  Tin Pan Alley
  Tina
  Tinga
  Tis távlas - drinking songs from Epirus
  Togaku
  Tonas
  Toshe - Tibetan dance music
  T'ong guitar - acoustic guitar pop music of Korea
  Township jive (Mbaqanga)
  Toziych
• Traditional pop music
• Trallalero - Genoese urban songs
  Trampská hudba - Czech urban folk music
• Trance
• Tribal house
• Trip-hop
• Trikitrixa - Basque accordion music
  Troista-country
  Troll metal
  Tropicalia
  TRT
  Truck-driving country
  Tsámiko
  Tsapika
  Tsonga disco
  Tumba
  Tuuli (Maglaal)
  Turbo-folk - aggressive form of modernized Serbian music
• Turntablism
• Tuvan throat-singing
  Twarab
• Twee pop
• Two tone (second wave of ska)

U

• Über Metal
  Ufie
  UK garage
  UK pub rock
  Umui - Okinawann religious songs
  Underground music
  Urban Cowboy
• Urban Folk
• Urban jazz
  Urtin duu
  Ute

V

• Vakodrazana
  Vakojazzana
  Vallenato - accordion-based Colombian folk music
  Vallenato-protesta
  Variet
  Vaudeville
  Verbunkos - Hungarian folk music
  Verismo
• Video game music
• Viennese-style classical music
  Villancicos
• Villanella - 16th century Neapolitan songs
• Virelais
• Vísir
  Visual rock
  Visual techno
• Vocal house
• Vocal jazz
  Vuelie

W

• Wahrani
  Waila (chicken scratch) - a Tohono O'odham fusion of polka, norteño and Native American music
• Waltz
• Wangga
  Warabe uta
  Wassoulou
  Watcha watcha
  Were
• West Coast hip hop
• Western blues
• Western swing
• Western Tradition of Sephardic music
  Women's music or womyn's music, wimmin's music--1970s lesbian/feminist
  Wong shadow - 1960s Thai pop music
  Work song
  Worldbeat
• World music

X

• Xi'an drum music - popular around Xi'an, China, ensembles of percussion and wind instruments
  Xoomii (khoomii, hoomii) - a type of Tuvan throat singing

Y

• Yang - form of Tibetan Buddhist chanting
  Yanvalou
  Yé-yé
  Yo-pop
  Yodeling
  Young Brigade
  Yukar

Z

• Zairean sound
  Zajal
  Zapin - derived from ancient Arabic music, zapin is popular throughout Malaysia
  Zarzuela - a form of Spanish operetta
  Zbójnicki
  Zen (music)
  Zendani
  Ziglibithy
  Zikir Barat - Sufi vocal music from Malaysia
  Zinge - Latvian vocal music
  Zoblazo
  Zolo - characterized by hyper jerky rhythms and cacophonous/ harmonious bleeps and boings
  Zouglou
  Zouk - Antillean dance music
  Zouk chouv
  Zouk funk - a fusion of zouk and funk
  Zouklove
  Zout
  Zulu a cappella
  Zydeco - popular Louisianan Creole music