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Na - Ng

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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
National Socialist Black Metal - NSBM Nazi black metal
Native American gospel - gospel music performed by Native Americans
Naturalismo - a term for the 2000s folk movement also referred to as New Weird America or Freak Folk
Nederpop - popular music of the Netherlands, especially in the Dutch language
Néo kýma
Neofolk - a form of folk music that emerged from European ideals and post-industrial music
Neo-Medieval
Neo-prog
Neo-Psychedelia
Neo Soul (Nu Soul) - late 1990s and early 2000s American fusion of contemporary R&B, 1970s style soul music, hip hop music, jazz, and classical 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 and early 1990s 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 Pop
New Prog
New Rave
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 Wave of New Wave
New Weird America - term to defining emerging folk/psychedelia/drone/noize influenced by pre-war country-folk-blues & 1960s counter cultural underground music.
New York blues - jazzy, urban blues from the early 20th century
New York House (also known as US Garage)
Newgrass - progressive bluegrass

[edit] Ng

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
Nintendocore
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

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Obscuro
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
Oldies
Olonkho - Yakut epic songs
Oltului
Ompa - Music by the Kaizers Orchestra
Omutibo
Ondo
On ikki muqam - Uyghur classical music 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 European classical music
Orchestre
Organ trio - a style of jazz from the 1960s that blended blues and jazz (and later "soul jazz") and which was based around the sound of the Hammond organ
Organic ambient - often acoustic ambient music which uses instruments and styles borrowed from world music
Organic house
Organica - A genre music created by SLIPS INTO SPACE in 2007, it is written without predetermining the outcome of the overall sound.This music causes audible hallucinations.
Organum - Middle Ages polyphonic music
Oriental Foxtrot
Oriental metal - a subgenre of folk metal that incorporates elements of traditional Middle Eastern music.
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

[edit] P

Pa - Pi - Po - Pr

[edit] Pa

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
Pagan rock
Pagode - Brazilian style of music which originated in the Rio de Janeiro region
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
Panchavadyam - Temple music from Kerala, India
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 (music)
Pasillo
Peace Metal
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
Phil - noisy noise from the 2000s where noise from Saskatoon met noise from France
Philadelphia soul - soft 1970s soul that came out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Phleng luk tung

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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 ensemble
Pirekaus - traditional love songs of the Purépecha of Mexico
Pisiq - Greenlandic folk song
Pixiefunk - fusion of funk,afrobeat,celtic balad,pop-rock,drum'n'bass and jungle. Usually performed live and free style. Origin:London
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

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Poco-poco - Indonesian modern music which fuses disco with eastern Indonesian dance music
Polihet
Polka
Polo
Polonaise
Pols - Danish fiddle and accordion dance music
Polska
Pong lang
Pop folk
Pop-makossa
Pop melayu - Malay pop music with dangdut overlay
Pop mop - Mongolian pop music
Pop music
Pop Progressive - Pop accompanied by guitar/bass riffs and speedy drum patterns
Pop punk
Pop rai
Pop rock
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
Pornocore
Porro - Colombian big band music
Portuguese Shangaan - South African and Mozambiquan mixture of traditional Tsonga and Portuguese music
Post-grunge
Post-hardcore
Post-Jam - Next Wave Jambands like the Slip, Lotus, STS9 and The Duo. Electronic and Indie Rock stylings.
Post-metal
Post-minimalism
Post-Nagasaki swing-bop
Post-punk
Post-rock
Post-romanticism
Post-traumatic-stress core - A variation of Post-hardcore generally characterised by aggressive breakdowns and very loud bass levels
Power electronics
Power metal
Power noise (or rhythmic noise)
Power pop
Powerviolence
Pow-wow - Native American dance music
Ppongtchak - Korean pop music developed during the Japanese occupation

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Praise song
Pre-Computer
Prison metal
Program symphony
Progressive Acoustic Urban Math Folk
Progressive electronic music
Progressive folk music
Progressive house
Progressive metal
Progressive bluegrass
Progressive rock
Progressive trance
Protopunk
Psychedelic music
Psych folk or Psychedelic folk
Psychedelic rock
Psychedelic trance (Psy-trance)
Psychobilly
Psychosomatic trance
Psych-pop
Punjabi thumri - a type of thumri from Punjab
Punk blues - a US music genre that developed in the 1980s, which mixes elements of blues with the aggressive sound of punk.
Punk Cabaret - a fusion of musical theater and cabaret style music with the aggressive, raw nature of punk rock.
Punk Jazz
Punk rock
Punta
Punta rock - 1970s Belizean music
Puke-a-Billy - genre created by Nathan Payne in the late 1990s. Mix of rock-a-billy, punk, country, and blues.

[edit] 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 updated for mainstream audiences, was originated in India
Quadrille
Queercore
Quiet Storm