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.
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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
List of music genres and styles
• Andalusian classical music • Indian classical music • Korean court music • Persian classical music • Kurdish classical music • Ottoman music (Classical Turkish music) • Western classical music • Early music • Medieval music (500–1400) • Ars antiqua (1170–1310) • Ars nova (1310–1377) • Ars subtilior (1360–1420) • Renaissance music (1400–1600) • Common Practice (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
Other
List of music genres and styles
• 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 • Dance music • Slow dance • 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 • List of war metal bands • 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. • 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.