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

• Christian music
  • Contemporary Christian music
  • Contemporary worship music
  • Christian Rock
    • Christian alternative rock
  • Country Gospel
  • Church music
    • Gospel
    • Worship
    • Hymns
    • Jesus Music
  • Liturgical music
  • Spirituals
  • Gregorian chant
• Islamic music
• Sikh music
• Buddhist music
• Yarsani
• Modern pagan music
• Music of ancient Greece
• New-age music
• Shamanic music

• • American patriotic music
  • Christmas music
  • Fado
  • Huayno
  • Mele
  • Pastorale
  • Polka
  • Ragtime
  • Son mexicano
  • Música criolla

• A cappella
  • Barbershop music
  • Collegiate a cappella
• Ballroom dance music: pasodoble, cha cha cha and others
  • Vogue (dance)
• Bedroom production
• Children's music
• Classic hip-hop
• 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.

• Genealogy of musical genres

This list is split into four separate pages:

• List of styles of music: A–F
• List of styles of music: G–M
• List of styles of music: N–R
• List of styles of music: S–Z
• List of country genres
• List of electronic music genres
• List of house genres
• List of industrial music genres
• List of trance genres
• List of hip-hop genres
• List of jazz genres
• List of pop music genres
• List of reggae genres
• List of rock genres
• List of heavy metal genres
• List of punk rock subgenres
• List of hardcore punk subgenres
• List of microgenres
• List of music styles that incorporate the accordion

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