List of genres of music: N-R
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- Na trapeza - Greek-Turkish slow songs
- Nagauta - Japanese style of shamisen-playing
- Naghmehs
- Nakasi - Taiwanese musical form
- Naked funk
- Nangma - Tibetan dance music
- Nanguan - Taiwanese instrumental music
- Narcocorrido - Spanish for "Drug ballad", this mexican music's theme was equivalent to gangster rap
- Narodna muzika - Serbian folk music
- Nasheed - a capella music closely related with Islamic revival in the 20th century
- Nashville Sound - pop-country music based out of Nashville, Tennessee
- Native American gospel - gospel music performed by Native Americans
- Nederpop - popular music of the Netherlands, especially in the Dutch language
- Néo kýma
- Neomelodici - modern Neapolitan pop songs
- Neo-classicism
- Neo-clerical ghazni
- Neo-ska - late 20th century revival of Jamaican ska
- Neo-swing - late 20th century revival of swing music
- Nerdcore hiphop
- Neue Deutsche Welle - a kind of German New Wave music
- Neue Volksmusik
- New Age music - numerous varieties of music associated with New Age spirituality and culture, especially including atmospheric and natural sounds
- New Instrumental
- New Jack Swing (New Jack R&B, Swingbeat) - late 1980s American fusion of hip hop music, R&B, doo wop and soul music
- New Orleans blues - piano and horn-heavy blues from the city of New Orleans, Louisiana
- New Orleans contemporary brass band
- New Orleans jazz
- New Romantic - popular British New Wave from the early 1980s
- New rumba
- New school hip hop - generic term for hip hop music recorded after about 1989
- New Taiwanese Song - modern Taiwanese pop music which combines ballads, rock and roll and hip hop
- New Wave bhangra (Fusion bhangra)
- New Wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) - mid- to late 1970s heavy metal coming out of the United Kingdom
- New Wave - melodious pop outgrowth of arty punk rock, also used as description of an emerging sound in any genre (e.g. Alpine New Wave)
- New York blues - jazzy, urban blues from the early 20th century
- Newbeat
- Newgrass - progressive bluegrass
- Nganja
- Nhac dan toc cai bien - modernized forms of Vietnamese folk music which arose in the 1950s
- Nhac tai tu - Vietnamese chamber music which accompanies cai luong
- Nha Nac
- Nisiótika - folk songs of the Greek islands
- No Wave - avant-garde late 1970s outgrowth of New Wave and punk rock
- Noh - highly-stylized Japanese theater and music style
- Noise music - style of avant-garde music, most closely associated with Japan
- Noise pop - experimental 1990s outgrowth of punk
- Noise rock - atonal punk rock from the 1980s
- Nongak - Korean folk music played by 20-30 performers on different kinds of percussion instruments
- Norae Undong - Korean rock music with socially aware lyrics
- Nortec - electronic style from Tijuana, Mexico
- Norteño (Tex-Mex) - Modernized corridos pop music of Mexico
- Northern harmony
- Northern Soul - late 1960s variety of soul music from northern England
- Northumbrian smallpipe music
- Nota
- Nova canção - popular 1950s and 60s fado in Portugal and folk-based singer-songwriters in Spain
- Novokomponovana narodna muzika - modernized Serbian folk music
- Nu breaks
- Nu jazz - fusion of late 1990s jazz and electronic music
- Nu metal - fusion of pop-heavy metal music with angst-ridden rapping
- Nu-NRG - a harder and faster version of Hi-NRG
- Nu soul (neo soul) - popular fusion of hip hop music and soul music
- Nueva canción - Chilean pop-folk music which influenced by native Chilean and Bolivian forms
- Nyingmapa chanting - form of highly rhythmic and elaborate Tibetan Buddhist chanting
O
- Oi - 1980s style of British punk rock
- Old school hip hop - generic term for hip hop music recorded before approximately 1989
- Old time country
- Old-time - archaic term for many different styles that were an outgrowth of Appalachian folk music and fed into country music
- Olonkho - Yakut epic songs
- Oltului
- Omutibo
- Ondo
- On ikki muqam - Uighur classical suite in 12 parts
- Oom pah band
- Opera - theatrical performances in which all or most dialogue is sung with musical accompaniment
- Oratorical calypso
- Oratorio - similar to opera but without scenery, costumes or acting
- Orchestra - a large ensemble, especially one used to played Western classical music
- Orchestre
- Organic ambient - often acoustic ambient music which uses instruments and styles borrowed from world music
- Organic house
- Organica - a subgenre of Trip-Hop with strong Breakbeat and non-electronica influences
- Organum - Middle Ages polyphonic music
- Oriental Foxtrot
- Oriental metal - Israeli fusion of death and doom metal
- Orovela - eastern Georgian work songs
- Orgel (Organ Orgue) - keyboard instrument with/without pedals
- Orquestas Tejanas
- Ottava rima - Italian rhyming stanzas
- Outlaw country - late 1960s and 70s form of country music with a hard-edged sound and rebellious lyrics
- Outsider music - generic term for music performed by outsiders
- Özgün
- Ozwodna
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- P-Funk - 1970s fusion of funk, heavy metal and psychedelic rock, most closely associated with the bands Funkadelic and Parliament, who shared many members collectively known as P-Funk
- Padams
- Paisley Underground - 1980s style of alternative rock that drew heavily on psychedelia
- Palm wine - fusion of numerous West African, Latin American and European genres, popular throughout coastal West Africa in the 20th century
- Palos
- Panambih - tembang sunda that uses metered poetry
- Panchai baja - Nepalese wedding music
- Pansori - Korean folk music played by a singer and a drummer
- Parisian soukous
- Parranda - Afro-Venezuelan form of music
- Parody - humorous renditions of various songs
- Payada de contrapunto
- Pambiche (Merengue estilo yanqui)
- Paranda - Garifuna music of Belize
- Parang - Trinidadian Christmas carols
- Partido alto
- El pasacalle
- Paseo
- Pasillo
- Pedo punk
- Pelimanni music - Finnish folk dance music
- Pennywhistle jive
- Peroveta anedia
- Petenera
- Peyote Song - a mixture of gospel and traditional Native American music
- Philadelphia soul - soft 1970s soul that came out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Phleng luk tung
- Piano blues
- Piedmont blues
- Pineal Polka
- Pinoy rock - rock and roll sung in Tagalog from the Philippines
- Pinpeat orchestra
- Piphat - ancient form of Thai classical musical ensemble
- Pirekaus - traditional love songs of the Purépecha of Mexico
- Pisiq - Greenlandic folk song
- Piyyutim
- Plachi - melancholic Russian folk songs
- Plainchant (Gregorian chant)
- Plena
- Pleng phua cheewit - Thai protest rock
- Pleng Thai sakorn - a Thai interpretation of Western classical music
- Poco-poco - Indonesian modern music which fuses disco with eastern Indonesian dance music
- Polihet
- Political Grindcore
- Polka
- Polo
- Polonaise
- Pols - Danish fiddle and accordion dance music
- Polska
- Pong lang
- Pop-makossa
- Pop melayu - Malay pop music with dangdut overlay
- Pop mop - Mongolian pop music
- Pop music
- Pop punk
- Pop rai
- Pop sunda - Sundanese mixture of gamelan degung and pop music structures
- Popular music
- Porro - Colombian big band music
- Portuguese Shangaan - South African and Mozambiquan mixture of traditional Tsonga and Portuguese music
- Post-minimalism
- Post punk
- Post-rock
- Post-romanticism
- Power electronics
- Power metal
- Power noise (or rhythmic noise)
- Power pop
- Pow-wow - Native American dance music
- Ppongtchak - Korean pop music developed during the Japanese occupation
- Praise song
- Pre-Computer
- Presleyan music - Elvis Presley meshes so many different sounds that it is difficult to place him in any one genre of music and with a hitlist like his he is practically his own genre
- Program symphony
- Progressive Acoustic Urban Math Folk
- Progressive electronic music
- Progressive house
- Progressive metal
- Progressive bluegrass
- Progressive rock
- Progressive trance
- Psychedelic music
- Psych folk or Psychedelic folk
- Psychedelic trance (Psy-trance)
- Psychobilly
- Psychosomatic trance
- Psych-pop
- Punjabi thumri - a type of thumri from Punjab
- Punk rock
- Punta
- Punta rock - 1970s Belizean music
Q
- Quan ho - Vietnamese vocal music which originated in the Red River Delta
- Qasidah - Epic religious poetry accompanied by percussion and chanting
- Qasidah modern - Qasidah updated for mainstream audiences
- Qawwali - Sufi religious music since updated for mainstream audiences, originally developed in Pakistan
- Quadrille
- Queercore
- Quiet Storm
R
- Rada
- Raga rock - Swiss soul, rock and Indian music fusion
- Ragas
- Raggamuffin (Ragga)
- Ragga-chutney
- Ragga-soca
- Ragga-zouk - a fusion of reggae, dub music and zouk
- Ragtime
- Rai - Algerian folk music now developed into a popular style
- Rake-and-scrape - Bahamanian instrumental music
- Rambutan
- Ramkbach
- Ramvong
- Ranchera - pop mariachi from 1950s film soundtracks
- Random dance
- Rap (hip hop)
- Rap dogba
- Rap metal
- Rapcore
- Rapso
- Rara
- Rare groove
- Rasiya
- Rateliai
- Rave
- Rebita
- reel
- Reggae
- Reggae highlife
- Reggaeton
- Reinlender
- Rekilaulu - Finnish rhyming sleigh songs
- Rembetiko
- Renaissance music
- Rhapsody
- Rhyming spiritual - Bahamanian hymns
- Rhythm and blues (R&B)
- Rhythmic noise (or power noise)
- Ricercar
- Rímur - Icelandic heroic epic songs
- Ring Bang - the Barbadian sound of soca
- Riot grrl
- Rock
- Rock opera
- Rock and roll
- Rock en espanol
- Rockabilly
- Rocksteady
- Rococo
- Rodeo music
- Rokon fada
- Romantic period in music
- Romeras
- Rondeaux
- Ronggeng - a folk music from Malacca, Malaysia
- Roots reggae
- Roots rock
- Roots rock reggae
- Ruem trosh - Cambodian traditional music
- Rumba
- Rumba gitana - French Gypsy music
- Runddan
- Runolaulu - Finnish folk songs
- Runo-song - Estonian folk music