List of styles of music: G–M

Lists of music genres and styles Music styles A-F G-M N-R S-Z Cultural and regional Genres and movements Classical and art music traditions European classical music Religious Electronic Folk Popular Blues Country Hip hop Jazz Reggae Rock (Heavy metal, Punk rock) Traditional

G H I J K L M

G

Ga - Ge-Gn - Go-Gr - Gu-Gy

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• G-funk

Gaa-Gal

• Gaana - type of Tamil song from Tamil Nadu, India
• Gabber (also spelled as Gabba)

• Gagaku - Japanese classical music derived from ancient court traditions
• Gaikyoku
• Gaita - Afro-Venezuelan form of loud percussion music
• Galant

Gam-Gan

• Gamad - Malay-style
• Gambang kromong - popular, highly-evolved form of kroncong, originally adapted for the theater
• Gamelan - diverse Indonesian classical music, making use of a vast array of melodic percussion
• Gamelan angklung - Balinese gamelan played for cremations and festivals
• Gamelan bebonangan - Balinese cymbal-based processional gamelan
• Gamelan degung - a form of popular Sundanese gamelan
• Gamelan bang - Balinese sacred gamelan played for cremations
• Gamelan buh - Balinese form of gamelan
• Gamelan gede - ceremonial gamelan from the temple of Bator
• Gamelan kebyar - an energetic form of large Balinese gamelan
• Gamelan salendro - gamelan dance music from West Java, known as lower-class music
• Gamelan selunding - possibly the oldest style of gamelan, played only in the village of Tenganan in Bali
• Gamelan semar pegulingan - sensual form of gamelan from Bali
• Gamewave
• Gammeldans
• Gandrung - Osing music performed at weddings.
• Gangsta rap - American form of hip hop music which focuses on underground lifestyles and illegal activities.

Gar-Gav

• Gar - Tibetan classical music from gabi gishnola
• Garage rock
• Garrotin
• Gavotte
• Garage Grass - Urban Sydney String Band Music

Ge-Gn

• Gelugpa chanting - form of Tibetan Buddhist chanting, very austere and restrained
• Gender wayang - Indonesian gamelan that accompanies shadow plays and other puppet plays
• Gending - a distinct gamelan music from southern Sumatra
• German Folk Music
• Gharbi
• Gharnati
• Ghazal - vocal form originally Persian but since spread to Central Asia, Iran, Turkey and India
• Ghazal-song - a modernized version of ghazal influenced by filmi
• Ghetto house - form of Miami bass influenced by house music which arose in Chicago
• Ghettotech - form of Miami bass which developed in 1990s Detroit
• Girl group - Girls singing rock songs
• Glam metal
• Glam punk
• Glam rock (alternately known as glitter rock)
• Glitch
• Gnawa

Go-Gr

• Go-go
• Goa (also known as Goa trance)
• Gong-chime music
• Goombay - Bahamanian percussion music
• Goregrind
• Goshu ondo - a form of popularized Okinawan folk music
• Gospel music
• Gothic metal
• Gothic rock
• Granadinas
• Grebo
• Gregorian chant (plainchant)
• Grime - emerged from East London, dark electronic beats with rapping, related to UK Garage and 2 step
• Grindcore - fusion of Death Metal and Punk
• Groove metal
• Group Sounds - Japanese pop music from the 1960s, which included Appalachian folk music and psychedelic rock
• Grunge
• Grupera - a mixture of Mexican ranchera, norteño and cumbia

Gu-Gy

• Guaguanbo
• Guajira
• Guasca - from Colombia
• Guitarra Baiana - from Pernambuco, Brazil, a style of playing frevo using electric guitars
• Guitarradas
• Gumbe
• Gunchei
• Gunka - military marches with Japanese influences, created during the Meiji Restoration
• Guoyue - invented conservatoire style of national Chinese music
• Gwo ka - Guadeloupan percussion music
• Gwo ka moderne - modernized gwo ka
• Gypsy jazz
• Gypsybilly see Gypsy Jazz (North America)
• Gypsy punk
• Gyu ke - form of Tibetan Tantric chanting

H

Ha - He-Ho - Hu-Hy

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Hab-Has

• Habanera - Africanized danzón
• Hajnali - Hungarian-Transylvanian wedding songs
• Hakka
• Halling
• Hambo
• Hands Up
• Hapa haole - a mixture of traditional Hawaiian music and English lyrics
• Happy hardcore
• Haqibah
• Hardcore hip hop
• Hardcore metal
• Hardcore punk
• Hardcore techno
• Hard bop (hard bebop)
• Hard house
• Hard rock
• Hardstyle
• Hard trance
• Harepa - harp-based music of Pedi people of South Africa
• Harmonica blues
• Hasaposérviko

Hat-Haz

• Hát chèo - an ancient form of Vietnamese stage opera
• Hát cãi luong - Vietnamese popular opera
• Hát chau van - a popular spiritual folk music of Vietnam
• Hát tuồng (Hát bôi) - Vietnamese operatic music

He-Ho

• Heart Attack - Subgenre of screamo music.
• Heartland rock
• Heavy beat
• Heavy metal
• Hesher
• Hi-NRG
• Highlands
• Highlife
• Highlife fusion
• Hillybilly music
• Hiplife
• Hip hop
• Hip house
• Hindustani classical music
• Hiragasy
• Hiva usu - unaccompanied vocal Christian music of Tonga
• Honky tonk
• Honkyoku
• Hora lunga
• Hornpipes
• Horrorcore rap
• Horror punk
• House music

Hu-Hy

• Hua'er
• Huasteco - folk music from Huasteco, Mexico
• Huaynos - Andean dance music now most widespread in Peru
• Hula
• Humppa
• Hunguhungu
• Hyangak - Korean court music
• Hymn
• Hyphy

I

• Ibiza music
• Icaro
• Igbo music
• Ijexá
• Ilahije
• Illbient
• Impressionist music
• Improvisational
• Incidental music
• Indietronica
• Indie folk
• Indie music
• Indie pop
• Indie rock
• Indo jazz - jazz mixed with forms of Indian music
• Indo rock
• Indoyíftika
• Industrial dance (or EBM, electronic body music)
• Industrial Death Metal
• Industrial hip-hop
• Industrial music
• Industrial musical (also known as corporate musical)
• Industrial metal
• Industrial rock (or coldwave)
• Instrumental rock
• Intelligent dance music (IDM, also known as intelligent techno, listening techno or art techno)
• International Latin - pop ballads from various Latin countries, especially Colombia
• Inuit music - music of the Inuit
• Irish folk
• Irish Rebel Music
• Iscathamiya
• Isikhwela jo
• Island - mix of reggae, ska, latin; music sounding from the island
• Isolationist
• Italo dance
• Italo Disco - Italian nightclub music
• Italo house
• Itsmeños - folk music of the Zapotec peoples of Mexico
• Izvorna bosanska muzika - modernized folk music from Drina, Bosnia
• Inang Rhythm

J

Ja-Je - Ji-Ju

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• J-Pop - Japanese pop music
• J-Rock - Japanese rock music
• J-Fusion - Japanese Jazz/Rock Fusion music

Ja-Je

• Jaipongan - unpredictably rhythmic dance music from West Java, Indonesia
• Jaliscienses - Folk music of Jalisco, Mexico, and the origin of mariachi
• Jam band
• Jam rock
• Jamana kura
• Jamrieng samai
• Jangle pop
• Japanese Pop
• Jarana
• Jariang - Cambodian folk narratives
• Jarochos - folk music from Veracruz, Mexico
• Jawaiian - Hawaiian reggae
• Jazz
• Jazz blues
• Jazz-funk
• Jazz fusion
• Jazz Metal
• Jazz rap
• Jegog - Giant Bamboo ensemble of Bali, Indonesia
• Jenkka
• Jesus music

Ji-Jt

• Jibaro
• Jig
• Jig punk
• Jing ping
• Jingle - form of music used in television commercials
• Jit
• Jitterbug
• Jive
• Joged - a generic term for various types of dance music all over Indonesia
• Joged bumbung - a popular form of joged ensemble
• Joik
• Joropo
• Jota
• J'Ouvert
• Jug band
• Juke joint blues
• Juju
• Jump blues
• Jumpstyle
• Jungle
• Junkanoo
• Juré
• Jtek

K

Ka - Ke-Kh - Ki-Kp - Kr-Kw

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K-

• K-pop - Korean pop music

Ka

• Käng
• Kaba - Southern Albanian instrumental music
• Kabuki - lively and popular form of Japanese theater and music
• Kadans
• Kagok - Korean aristocratic vocal music accompanied by strings, wind and percussion instruments
• Kagyupa chanting - form of Tibetan Buddhist chanting
• Kaiso - is a type of popular music in Trinidad and other Islands of the Caribbean such as Grenada, St. Lucia and Barbados. It is often used as a synonym for calypso.
• Kalamatianó
• Kalattuut - Inuit polka
• Kalinda (kalenda, ti kannot)
• Kamba pop
• Kan ha diskan
• Kansas City blues
• Kantádhes
• Kantrum
• Karaoke
• Kargyraa
• Karma
• Kaseko - Surinamese folk music
• Kachāshī - lively, celebratory Okinawan folk music
• Katajjaq or Inuit throat singing - competitive duet style
• Kawachi ondo - a form of modernized Okinawan folk music
• Kayōkyoku - traditionally-structured Japanese pop music

Ke-Kh

• Ke-kwe
• Kebyar - see gamelan gong kebyar above
• Kecak - Balinese "monkeychant"
• Kecapi suling - instrumental, improvisation-based music from Java
• Kélé
• Kertok - Malaysian xylophone music played in small ensembles
• Khaleeji - popular folk-based music of the Persian Gulf countries
• Khap
• Khplam wai - a type of mor lam with a slow tempo which originated in Luang Prabang, Laos
• Khelimaski djili - Hungarian Gypsy dance songs
• Khene
• Khrung sai - type of Thai classical music
• Khyal - Hindustani vocal music that is informal, partially improvised and very popular
• Khoomei
• Khorovodi - Russian dance music

Ki-Kp

• Kĩkũyũ pop
• Kilapanda
• Kinko
• Kirtan
• Kiwi rock
• Kizomba
• Klape - Dalmatian male choir music
• Klasik
• Kléftiko
• Klezmer
• Kliningan
• Kochare - Armenian folk dance
• Kolomyjka
• Komagaku
• Konpa
• Koumpaneia - Greek Gypsy music
• Kpanlogo
• K-pop - Korean pop music

Kr-Kw

• Krakowiak
• Krautrock
• Kriti (krithi) - a Hindu hymn
• Kroncong - popular Indonesian music with strong Portuguese influence
• Krump - upbeat and fast-paced with bass and clapping
• Krzesany
• Kuduro
• Kulintang - Traditional gong-chime music of the Philippines, Eastern Indonesia, Eastern Malaysia, Brunei and Timor
• Kulning - Swedish folk songs
• Kumina - music (and religion) of the Bongo Nation of Jamaica
• Kun-borrk
• Kundere
• Kundiman - traditional Filipino songs adapted to Western song structure
• Kussundé
• Kutumba wake
• Kvæði
• Kveding - traditional Norwegian songs
• Kwaito
• Kwassa kwassa
• Kwela

L

La - Le-Lo - Lu

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La

• La la - Louisianan Creole music

• Latin pop - pop music that has what may be perceived a Latin American influence

• Lavway

• Liquid drum&bass

Le-Lo

• Le leagan
• Legényes - Hungarian-Transylvanian men's dance
• Letkajenkka
• Lhamo - form of Tibetan opera
• Library Music - also known as stock music or production music
• Lieder
• Likanos
• Light Music - 20th Century light orchestral music (mainly British)
• Light Rock -also known as Soft Rock or AM Gold
• Liquid Funk
• Liquindi
• Llanera - Venezuelan music
• Llanto - a flamenco-influenced genre of Panamanian folk music
• Lo-fi music
• Logobi
• Loki djili - traditional Hungarian Gypsy songs
• Long-song - traditional Mongolian slow songs
• Louisiana blues
• Lounge music
• Lovers rock
• Lowercase

Lu

• Lu - unaccompanied Tibetan folk music
• Lubbock Sound
• Lucknavi thumri - a type of thumri from Lucknow
• Luhya omutibo
• Luk grung - Popular Thai music from the early 20th century
• Lullaby
• Lundu
• Lundum
• Lelio

M

Ma - Mb-Mg - Mi - Min-Mir - Mo-Mp - Mu

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• M-Base

Mad-Mam

• Madchester
• Madrigal
• Mafioso rap
• Maglaal (tuuli)
• Magnificat
• Mahori - type of Thai classical music
• Makossa
• Makossa-soukous
• Malagueñas
• Malawian jazz
• Malhun
• Maloya - traditional music from Réunion
• Maluf - evolved form of al-andalous classical music which developed in Constantine, Algeria
• maluka
• Mambo
• Marinera - Dance of Perú
• Martial Industrial A mix of industrial and martial music. Similar to neo-classical and neo-folk. Usually very pro-Europe.

Man-Map

• Manaschi - Kyrgyz folk music made by travelling musicians also called manaschi
• Mandarin pop - early Taiwanese pop sung in Mandarin and popular with young listeners
• Manding swing
• Mango
• Mangue Bit - African style beat music style from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
• Mangulina
• Manikay
• Manila sound - Early 1970s development in Pinoy rock which mixed Tagalog and English lyrics
• Manouche
• Manzuma
• Mapouka
• Mapouka-serré

Mar-Maz

• Marabi
• Maracatu - African and Portuguese music popular around Recife, Brazil
• Marga - Indian classical music
• Mariachi - pop form of Son Jaliscience
• Marimba
• Marrabenta
• Martial industrial
• Maskanda - popularized Zulu-traditional music
• Mass
• Martinetes
• Matamuerte
• Mathcore
• Math rock
• Maxixe
• Mazurka - Martinican Music

Mb-Mg

• Mbalax
• Mbaqanga (township jive)
• Mbira (Chimurenga)
• Mbube
• Mbumba
• Medh
• Meditation
• Medieval folk rock
• Medieval metal
• Medieval music
• Mejorana
• Melhoun
• Melhûn
• Matt Bello
• Melodic black metal
• Melodic death metal
• Melodic hardcore
• Melodic metalcore
• Melodic music
• Melodic trance
• Memphis blues
• Memphis rap
• Memphis soul
• Mento
• Merengue
• Merengue típico moderno
• Merengue-bomba - Puerto Rican fusion of bomba and merengue
• Méringue
• Meringue
• Merseybeat
• Metal
• Metalcore
• Metallic hardcore
• Mexican rock
• Mexican son - a broad group of Mexican folk music
• Meykhana
• Mezwed

Mia-Mil

• Miami bass (booty bass) (Bass music)
• Microhouse
• Mini compas
• Mini-jazz
• Minuet
• Milonga

Min-Mit

• Min'yo - Japanese folk music
• Mineras
• Mini-jazz - Caribbean jazz
• Minimalist music
• Minimalist trance
• Minimal techno
• Minstrel show
• Minneapolis sound
• Mirolóyia

Mo-MP

• Modinha
• Modern classical music
• Modern Laika
• Modern Rock
• Modinha
• Mohabelo - neo-traditional music from South Africa and Lesotho
• Mor lam - Laotian and Thai ensemble music for vocals with accompaniment
• Mor lam sing - popular form of Laotian traditional music developed by Laotians in Thailand
• Moombahton
• Motorpop
• Motown
• Montuno
• Monumental Dance
• Morna
• Mozambique
• MPB (música popular brasileira) - catch-all term for multiple varieties of Brazilian pop music

Mu

• Mugam - classical music of Azerbaijan, featuring sung poetry and instrumental passages
• Multicultural - music that is infused with several different types of cultural and ethnic influences and sounds.
• Murga - Uruguayan street carnival dance with heavy percussion, also popular in Argentina.
• Musette
• Mushroom Jazz
• Music drama
• Music Hall
• Música campesina - Cuban rural music
• Música criolla - a coastal Peruvian music from the early 20th century, consisting of a variety of Western fusions
• Música de la interior - indigenous folk music from Colombia
• Música llanera - harp-based form of folk music from Los Llanos, Colombia
• Música nordestina - Northeast Brazilian popular music, centered around Recife
• Música tropical - a form of Colombian salsa music
• Musiqi-e assil - Persian classical music
• Musique concrète (also known as electroacoustic music)
• Mutuashi
• Muwashshah
• Muzak (or elevator music)

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