List of genres of music: G-M
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G
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Gab-Gal
- Gabba (also spelled as Gabber)
- Gagá
- Gagaku - Japanese classical music derived from ancient court traditions
- Gaikyoku
- Gaita - Afro-Venezuelan form of percussion music
- Galant
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Gam-Gan
- Gamad - Malay-style ballad
- 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 gambang - Balinese sacred gamelan played for cremations
- Gamelan gambuh - Balinese form of gamelan
- Gamelan gong gede - ceremonial gamelan from the temple of Bator
- Gamelan gong kebyar - an energetic form of large Balinese gamelan
- Gamelan salendro - gamelan dance music from Sunda, 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
- Gammeldan
- Gandrung - Osing music performed at weddings and other celebrations
- Gangsta rap - American form of hip hop music which focuses on underground lifestyles and illegal activities
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Gar-Gay
- Gar - Tibetan classical music
- Garage
- Garage rock
- Garage techno
- Garrotin
- Gavotte
- Gayap - Afro-Trinidadian call and response work song
- Gbébé
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Ge-Gn
- Gelugpa chanting - form of Tibetan Buddhist chanting, very austere and restrained
- Gender wayang - Indonesion gamelan that accompanies shadow plays and other puppet plays
- Gending - a distinct gamelan music from southern Sumatra
- 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
- Glamorous cumbia
- Glam rock
- Glitch
- Gnawa
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Go-Gr
- Go go
- Goa (also known as goa trance)
- Golden Period of Karnatic classical music - music composed by the legendary Trimurti
- Goombay - Bahamanian percussion music
- Goregrind
- Goshu ondo - a form of popularized Okinawan folk music
- Gospel music
- Gospel-soca
- Gothenburg sound
- Goth metal
- Gothic rock
- Granadinas
- Gregorian chant (plainchant)
- Grime - new Garage
- Grindcore
- 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
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Gu-Gy
- Guaguanbo
- Guajira
- 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
- Gwerz
- Gwo ka - Guadeloupan percussion music
- Gwo ka moderne - modernized gwo ka
- Gypsy jazz
- Gyu ke - form of Tibetan Tantric chanting
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H
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Hab-Has
- Habanera - Africanized danzón
- Haiducesti
- Hair metal
- Hajnali - Hungarian-Transylvanian wedding songs
- Half calypso (semi-tone calypso)
- Hakka
- Hambo
- Hapa haole - a mixture of traditional Hawaiian music and English lyrics
- Happy hardcore
- Haqibah
- Hardcore hip hop
- Hardcore punk
- Hardcore techno
- Hard bop (hard bebop)
- Hard house
- Hard rock
- Hard techno
- Hard trance
- Harepa - harp-based music of Pedi people of South Africa
- Harmonica blues
- Hasaposérviko
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Hat-Haz
- Hat cheo - an ancient form of Vietnamese stage opera
- Hát a dào - (ca tru) Vietnamese folk music
- Hát cai luong - Vietnamese popular opera
- Hat chau van - a popular spiritual folk music of Vietnam
- Hát tuông (Hát bôi) - Vietnamese operatic music
- Hawaiian steel guitar - (kila kila) invented by Joseph Kekuku, who slid a solid object across slacked guitar strings
- Hawzi - evolved form of al-andalous classical music which developed in Tlemcen
- Hazzanut
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He-Ho
- Heavy compas
- Heavy dance
- Heavy metal
- Hesher
- Hi-NRG
- Highlands
- Highlife
- Highlife fusion
- Hillybilly music
- Hiplife
- Hip hop
- Hip hop and soul (HNS)
- Hip house
- Hindustani classical music
- Hiragasy
- Hiva usu - unaccompanied vocal Christian music of Tonga
- Honky tonk
- Honkyoku
- Hora lunga
- Hornpipes
- Horror punk
- Hot rod music
- House music
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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
- Hypnofolkadelia - see Acid croft
- Hymn
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I
- Ibiza music
- Ibo
- Ice metal
- Igbo-highlife
- Ijexá
- Ilahije
- Illbient
- Impressionist music
- Incidental music
- Indie folk
- Indie garage
- Indie rock
- Indie pop
- Indo jazz - jazz mixed with forms of Indian music
- Indo rock
- Indoyíftika
- Industrial dance (or EBM, electronic body music)
- Industrial music
- Industrial musical (also known as corporate musical)
- Industrial metal
- Industrial rock (or coldwave)
- Instrumental pop
- 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
- Intuit
- Iscathamiya
- Isikhwela jo
- Isolationist
- Itsmeños - folk music of the Zapotecs of Mexico
- Izvorna Bosanska muzika - modernized folk music from Drina, Bosnia
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J
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Ja-Je
- Jaipongan - unpredictably rhythmic dance music from Sunda, Indonesia
- Jaliscienses - Folk music of Jalisco, Mexico, and the origin of mariachi
- Jam band
- Jam rock
- Jamana kura
- Jamrieng samai
- Jangle pop
- Japanese pop - Japanese pop music using Western structures
- Jarana
- Jariang - Cambodian folk narratives
- Jarochos - folk music from Veracruz, Mexico
- Jawaiian - Hawaiian reggae
- Jazz
- Jazz blues
- Jazz from night
- Jazz fusion
- Jazz groove
- Jazz rap
- Jegog - Giant Bamboo ensemble of Bali, Indonesia
- Jenkka
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Ji-Ju
- Jibaro
- Jig
- Jing ping
- Jingle - form of music used in television commercials
- Jit
- 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
- Jungle
- Junkanoo
- Juré
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K
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Ka
- 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
- Kalamatianó
- Kalattuut - Inuit polka
- Kalinda (kalenda, ti kannot)
- Kamba pop
- Kan ha diskan
- Kansas City blues
- Kantádhes
- Kantrum
- Kargyraa
- Karma
- Kaseko - Surinamese folk music
- Katcharsee - lively, celebratory Okinawan folk music
- Kattajjaq - competitive Inuit throat singing
- Kawachi ondo - a form of modernized Okinawan folk music
- Kayokyoku - traditionally-structured Japanese pop music
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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
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Ki-Kp
- Kĩkũyũ pop
- Kilapanda
- Kinko
- Kirtan
- Kiwi rock
- Kizomba
- Klape - Dalmatian male choir music
- Klasik
- Kléftiko
- Klezmer
- Kliningan
- Kochare - Armenian folk dance
- Kolomeyka
- Komagaku
- Konpa
- Koumpaneia - Greek Gypsy music
- Kpanlogo
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Kr-Kw
- Krakowiak
- Krautrock
- Krill Krill
- Kriti (krithi) - a Hindui hymn
- Kroncong - popular Indonesian music with strong Portuguese influence
- Krzesany
- 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
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L
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La
- La la - Louisianan Creole music
- Laba laba
- Laïkó
- Lais
- Lam
- Lam saravane - Laotian ensemble music from a town of the same name in southern Laos
- Lam sing
- Lambada - Bolivian and Brazilian dance music which arose from sayas and became internationally popular in the 1980s
- Lancer
- Langgam jawa - type of kroncong mixed with gamelan, popular around Solo, Indonesia
- Laremuna wadauman
- Latin jazz - jazz mixed with Latin musical forms like bossa nova or salsa
- Lavlu
- Lavway
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Le-Lo
- Le leagan
- Legényes - Hungarian-Transylvanian men's dance
- Letka
- Letka-jenkka
- Lhamo - form of Tibetan opera
- Liedermacher
- Likanos
- Light music - Nepalese pop music, blending traditional styles, Western pop and Indian filmi
- Line dance
- Liquindi
- Llanera - Venezuelan music
- Llanto - a flamenco-influenced genre of Panamanian folk music
- Lo-fi
- Lo-pop Pop or Disco with extrerme cheap touch
- Loki djili - traditional Hungarian Gypsy songs
- Long-song - traditional Mongolian slow songs
- Louisiana blues
- Lounge music
- Love Metal - orginated from Finland
- Lovers rai
- Lovers rock
- Lovers soca
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Lu
- Lu - unaccompanied Tibetan folk music
- Lubbock country music
- Lucknavi thumri - a type of thumri from Lucknow
- Luhya omutibo
- Luk grung - Popular Thai music from the early 20th century
- Lullaby
- Lundu
- Lundum
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M
Ma - Mb-Mg - Mi - Min-Mir - Mo-Mp - Mu
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Mad-Mam
- Madchester
- Madrigal
- Mafioso hip hop
- Maglaal (tuuli)
- Magnificat
- Mahori - type of Thai classical music
- Makossa
- Makossa-soukous
- Malagueñas
- Malawian jazz
- Maloya
- Maluf - evolved form of al-andalous classical music which developed in Constantine, Algeria
- Mambo
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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
- Mangulina
- Manikay
- Manila sound - Early 1970s development in Pinoy rock which mixed Tagalog and English lyrics
- Manouche
- Manzuma
- Mapouka
- Mapouka-serré
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Mar-Maz
- Marabi
- Maracatu - African and Portuguese music popular around Recife, Brazil
- Marching music
- Marga - Indian classical music
- Mariachi - pop form of son jalisciense
- Marimba
- Maritime folk
- Marrabenta
- Marrabenta rap
- Maskanda - popularized Zulu-traditional music
- Mass
- Martinetes
- Matamuerte
- Mathcore
- Math rock
- Mazurka
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Mb-Mg
- Mbalax
- Mbaqanga (township jive)
- Mbira (Chimurenga)
- Mbube
- Mbumba
- Medh
- Meditation
- Medieval music
- Mejorana
- Melhoun
- Melhûn
- 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
- Mexican son - a broad group of Mexican folk music
- Meyjana
- MPB (musica popular Brasileira)
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Mia-Mil
- Miami bass (booty bass) (Bass music)
- Microhouse
- Milo jazz
- Mini compas
- Mini jazz
- Minuet
- Missouri harmony
- Miami Sound - a popular form of salsa music
- Milongas
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Min-Mir
- Min'yo - Japanese folk music
- Mineras
- Mini-jazz - Caribbean jazz
- Minimalist music
- Minimalist trance
- Minstrel show
- Mirabras
- Mirolóyia
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Mo-MP
- Mod
- Modinha
- Modern classical music
- Mohabelo - neo-traditional music from South Africa and Lesotho
- Mor lam - Laotian ensemble music for vocals with accompaniment
- Mor lam sing - popular form of Laotian traditional music developed by Laotians in Thailand
- Morna
- Motown
- Mozambique
- MPB (música popular brasileira) - catch-all term for multiple varieties of Brazilian pop music
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Mu
- Mugam - classical music of Azerbaijan, featuring sung poetry and instrumental passages
- Muntuno
- Musette
- 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)
