List of styles of music: S–Z

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

S T U V W X Y Z

S

Sa - Sc - Si - So - St - Sy

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 romantica - a soft, romantic form of salsa music
Saltarello
Samba - form of Brazilian popular music
Samba-canção - traditional samba in slow tempo and with romantic lyrics. influenced by bolero
Samba-reggae - a genre of samba with a choppy, reggae-like rhythm.
Samba-rock
Sambai
Sanjo - Korean instrumental folk music
Sato kagura
Sawt - urban music from Kuwait and Bahrain
Saya - Bolivian music derived from African rhythms

Sc

Schlager
Schottisch
Schranz
Scottish Baroque music
Screamo
Scrumpy and Western - folk music from West Country of England
Sea shanty
Sean nós - Sean-nós singing style of Ireland
Second Viennese School
Sega music
Seggae
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
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 - British pop
Shoka - Japanese songs written during the Meiji Restoration to bring Western music to Japanese schools
Shomyo - Japanese Buddhist chanting
Show tune

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
Situational
Ska
Ska punk
Skacore (third wave of ska)
Skald
Skate punk
Skiffle
Slack-key guitar (kihoalu) - Hawaiian form invented by retuning open strings on a guitar
Slängpolska
Slide
Slowcore
Sludge metal
Smooth jazz

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
Talempong - a distinct Minangkabau gamelan music
Tambu
Tamburitza
Tamil Christian keerthanai - Christian devotional lyrics in Tamil
Táncház - Hungarian dance music
Tango - Argentine popular music that spread internationally in the 1920s
Tanguk - a form of Korean court music that includes elements of Chinese music
Tappa
Tarana - form of vocal music from northern India using highly rhythmic nonsense syllables
Tarantella
Taranto
Tech House
Tech Trance
Technical death metal
Technical metal
Techno
Technoid
Technopop - Japanese-language electropop / synthpop
Techstep
Techtonik
Teen pop
Tejano music or "Tex-Mex", sometimes confused with norteño
Tekno
Tembang sunda - Sundanese sung free verse poetry
Texas blues
Thillana - form of vocal music from South India using highly rhythmic nonsense syllables
Thrashcore
Thrash metal
Thumri - a type of popular Hindustani vocal music
Tibetan pop - pop music heavily influenced by Chinese forms, emerging in the 1980s
Tientos
Timbila - form of folk music in Mozambique
Tin Pan Alley
Tinga
Tinku - traditional music and dance from Potosi Bolivia
Toeshey - Tibetan dance music
Togaku
T'ong guitar - acoustic guitar pop music of Korea
Traditional pop music
Trallalero - Genoese urban songs
Trance
Tribal house
Trikitixa - Basque accordion music
Trip-hop
Trip rock
Tropicalia
Tropipop
Truck-driving country
Tumba
Turbo-folk - aggressive form of modernized Serbian music
Turkish Music
Turntablism
Tuvan throat-singing
Twee pop
Twist (also a dance style, early 1960s)
Two tone (second wave of ska)

U

UK garage
UK pub rock
Unblack metal (also known as Christian black metal)
Underground music
Uplifting Trance
Urban Cowboy
Urban Folk
Urban jazz

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
Visual music
Vocal house
Vocal jazz
Vocal music
Volksmusik

W

Waila (chicken scratch) - a Tohono O'odham fusion of polka, norteño and Native American music
Waltz
Wangga - Australian aboriginal music genre
Warabe uta
Wassoulou
Were music
West Coast hip hop is a hip hop music subgenre that encompasses any artists or music which originates in the westernmost region of the United States
Western blues
Western swing
Witch house
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

X

Xoomii (khoomii, hoomii) - a type of Tuvan throat singing
Xhosa music

Y

Z

Zajal
Zapin - derived from ancient Arabic music, zapin is popular throughout Malaysia
Zarzuela - a form of Spanish operetta
Zeuhl
Zeibekiko - Greek Dance 9/8 Rytmus
Zef - South African music based in both rap & rave
Ziglibithy
Zouglou
Zouk - French Caribbean (Guadeloupean) dance music
Zouk chouv
Zouklove - Guadeloupean Music
Zulu music
Zydeco - popular Louisianan Creole music

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