List of styles of music: S-Z
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[edit] S
[edit] Sa
- Sabar - drumming style found in Senegal
- Sacred Harp
- Sadcore
- Saibara
- 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-canção - traditional samba in slow tempo and with romantic lyrics. influenced by bolero
- Sambai
- Sanjo - Korean instrumental folk music
- Sato kagura
- Sawt - urban music from Kuwait and Bahrain
- Saya - Bolivian music derived from African rhythms
[edit] Sc
- Scandinavian metal (Viking metal)
- Schottisch
- Scottish Baroque music
- Schranz
- Screamo
- Scrumpy and Western - folk music from West Country of England
- Sea shanty
- Sean nós
- Second Viennese School
- Sega music
- Seis
- Semba
- Sephardic music
- Serialism
- Set dance
- Sevdalinka - Bosnian urban popular music
- Sevillana
- Shabab
- Shabad
- Shalako - Armenian folk dance
- Shan'ge - Taiwanese Hakka mountain songs
- Shango
- Shape note
- 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
- Shock rock
- Shoegaze
- Shoka - Japanese songs written during the Meiji Restoration to bring Western music to Japanese schools
- Shomyo - Japanese Buddhist chanting
- Showtunes
[edit] Si
- 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
- Singer-songwriter
- Ska
- Ska punk
- Skacore (third wave of ska)
- Skald
- Skate punk
- Skiffle
- Skronk - popular music originating in Charleston, South Carolina, USA in the late 1990s having elements of ska, rock, and funk.
- Slack-key guitar (kihoalu) - Hawaiian form invented by retuning open strings on a guitar
- Slängpolska
- Slide
- Slowcore
- Sludge metal
- Smooth jazz
[edit] So
- Soca
- Soft rock
- Soldier
- 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
- Soukous
- Soul blues
- Soul jazz
- Soul music
- Soundtrack
- Southern Gospel
- Southern Harmony
- Southern hip hop
- Southern rock
- Southern soul
- Space age pop
- Space music
- Space rock
- Spacesynth
- Spectralism
- Speedcore
- Speed garage
- Speed metal
- Spirituals
- Spouge - Barbadian folk music
- Square dance
[edit] St
- St. Louis blues
- Steelband
- Stoner metal
- Stoner rock
- Straight edge
- Strathspeys
- Stride
- String - 1980s Thai pop music
- String quartet
- Suite
- Suomirock
- Super Eurobeat
- Surf ballads
- Surf instrumental
- Surf music
- Surf pop
- Surf rock
- Swamp blues
- Swamp pop
- Swingbeat (New Jack Swing, New Jack R&B)
- Swing music
[edit] Sy
- Sygyt - type of xoomii (Tuvan throat singing), likened to the sound of whistling
- Symphonic black metal
- Symphonic metal
- Symphonic poem
- Symphonic rock
- Symphony
- Symphusion
- Synthpop
- Synthpunk
[edit] T
- Taarab
- 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
- Tambu
- Tamburitza
- Tamil Christian keerthanai - Christian devotional lyrics in Tamil
- Táncház - Hungarian dance music
- Tango - Argentinian dance music that became internationally popular in the 1920s
- Tanguk - a form of Korean court music that includes elements of Chinese music
- Talempong - a distinct Minangkabau gamelan music
- Tappa
- Tarana - form of vocal music from northern India using highly rhythmic nonsense syllables
- Tarantella
- Taranto
- Tech house
- Technical death metal
- Techno
- Techno metal
- Techno Rock
- Technoid
- Tembang sunda - Sundanese sung free verse poetry
- Teen pop
- Tejano music or "Tex-Mex", sometimes confused with norteño
- Terrorcore
- Texas blues
- Thrashcore
- 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
- Tinga
- Tinku - traditional music and dance from Potosi Bolivia
- Toadas - traditional music and dance from Brazil
- Togaku
- Toeshey - Tibetan dance music
- T'ong guitar - acoustic guitar pop music of Korea
- Traditional pop music
- Trallalero - Genoese urban songs
- Trance
- Travesty
- Tribal house
- Trip-hop
- Trip rock
- Triple R
- Trikitixa - Basque accordion music
- Trop Rock
- Tropicalia
- Truck-driving country
- Tumba
- Turbo-folk - aggressive form of modernized Serbian music
- Turntablism
- Tuvan throat-singing
- Twee pop
- Twist (also a dance style, early 1960s)
- Two tone (second wave of ska)
[edit] U
- UK garage
- UK pub rock
- Unblack metal (also know as Christian black metal)
- Underground music
- Unknown
- Urban Cowboy
- Urban Folk
- Urban jazz
[edit] V
- Vallenato - accordion-based Colombian folk music
- Vaudeville
- Verbunkos - Hungarian folk music
- Verismo
- Video game music - Melodic music as defined by its media.
- Viking metal
- Villanella - 16th century Neapolitan songs
- Virelais
- Visual Kei
- Vocal house
- Vocal jazz
- Volksmusik
[edit] W
- Waila (chicken scratch) - a Tohono O'odham fusion of polka, norteño and Native American music
- Waltz
- Warabe uta
- Wassoulou
- Were music
- West Coast pop
- Western blues
- Western swing
- White Metal
- Wizard Rock
- Women's music or womyn's music, wimmin's music--1970s lesbian/feminist
- Wong shadow - 1960s Thai pop music
- Work song
- Wood Sounds of organic synthesis recorded on organic medium such as tape.
- Worldbeat
- World music
- World fusion music
[edit] X
- Xoomii (khoomii, hoomii) - a type of Tuvan throat singing
- Xhosa music
[edit] Y
- Yang - form of Tibetan Buddhist chanting
- Yé-yé
- Yorubeat Funk and Afrobeat influenced
- Yo-pop
- Yodeling
- Yukar
[edit] Z
- Zajal
- Zapin - derived from ancient Arabic music, zapin is popular throughout Malaysia
- Zarzuela - a form of Spanish operetta
- Zeuhl
- Ziglibithy
- Zolo - characterized by hyper jerky rhythms and cacophonous/ harmonious bleeps and boings
- Zouglou
- Zouk - Antillean dance music
- Zouk chouv
- Zouklove
- Zulu music
- Zydeco - popular Louisianan Creole music
