There are many different music genres that have originated from ages as old as normans. The different types of music genre are:

Country

Country/Western

Southern Rock

Shock Rock

Punk Rock

Metal

Alternative rock

Grunge

Bluegrass

Folk rock

Soft rock

Rap

Hip Hop

Rhythm and Blues (R & B)

Blues

Mississippi Delta Blues

New Age Jazz

Jazz Fusion

Classical

Baroque Classical

Death metal

Black metal

Grindcore

Dark Metal

Thrash

Viking Metal

Hair metal

Heavy metal

Hard rock

Doom

Emo

Elmo (no wait- that's a Sesame Street dude)

Techno

Pop music

Horrorcore

Speed metal

Power metal

Gospel

Goth

Technical death metal

Brutal death metal

Progressive metal

Classic rock

Swing

Ambient

Crossover

Soul

Modern classical

Industrial

Experimental

Avant-Garde metal

Glam metal

Groove metal

NWOBHM (New wave of British heavy metal)

Stoner metal

Symphonic metal

Christian metal

Neo-classical metal

Rap metal

Sludge metal

Funk

Reggae

Post-industrial

Middle eastern

North African Folk Music

European Folk

Asian Folk

Americana

Calypso

Zook

Gamelan

2 step

4-beat

2 tone

A cappella

Acoustic

Acid Rock

Death Rock

Acid Jazz

Adai-adai

Acid Techno

Abwe

Adult contemporary

Aak - Korean court music

Aboriginal rock - rock and roll mixed with Australian aborigine music, began in 1980s

Abstract hip hop

Abwe

Acid house - house music using simple tone generators with tempo-controlled resonant filters

Acid jazz - jazz mixed with soul, hip hop and funk

Acid punk

Acid rap

Acid rock

Acid techno

Acoustic

Adai-adai

Adult Album Alternative

Adult contemporary

Anti-Serious Music

[edit] Af-Ak

Afoxé

Afrobeat - African rhythms mixed with American funk

Afro-Cuban jazz - jazz mixed with merengue, salsa or other Latin forms

Afro-juju - style of Nigerian popular music, a mixture of Jùjú music and Afrobeat

Afro-punk - refers to African Americans and other black people in the punk subculture

Aggrotech - an evolution of electro-industrial and dark electro with a strong influence of techno music

Aguinaldo - folk genre of Christmas music

Ahouach - refers to a style of music and associated dance from southern Morocco

Air - a variant of the musical song form (Classical)

Akyn - Kazakh folk music made by travelling musicians also called akyn

[edit] Al

Aleatoric music - music the composition of which is partially left to chance

Alpine New Wave

Alternative country - reaction against the 1990s highly-polished Nashville sound

Alternative dance

Alternative hip hop - opposite of gangsta rap, usually includes socially or politically aware lyrics (also known as alternative rap or Bohemian hip hop)

Alternative metal - catch-all term for heavy metal mixed with punk, funk, hip hop or other influences

Alternative rock - broad movement born in the 1980s generally relegated to the underground music scene and operating outside of the mainstream

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Ambient - atmospheric electronic music combined with jazz, New Age and other influences

Ambient dub

Ambient electronica

Ambient house

Ambient groove

Ambient techno

Ambient trance

American fingerstyle guitar (American primitive guitar)

Americana

Anadolu rock - Turkish rock music

Anarcho-punk - 1970s mixture of punk rock with anarchist lyrics

Andean New Age - a mixture of native Peruvian and Western musics which arose in tourist areas in Lima, Cuzco, and Ollantaytambo

Angklung - Osinger and Balinese style of gamelan performed exclusively by young boys

Anti-folk

Antiphonal

[edit] Ap-Ax

Apala

Arabesk - A versatile collection of music fusing Turkish folk music, Arab classical music and various other genres

Argentinean rock

Ars antiqua

Ars nova

Artcore

Art metal

Art punk

Art rock

Ashiq - Azeri bards who sing and accompany themselves on a saz (a kind of lute)

Asian Underground - British-based form of Indian and Western fusion

Astral Electro - music discovered by music band SAMARKAND.

Australian Breakcore-see breakcore-Usually harsher and faster.

Australian country music (see also Country music)

Australian pub rock

Australian hip hop

Australian humour

Avant-garde jazz

Avant-garde metal

Avant-garde music - any kind of experimental music incorporated bizarre ideas, structures or instrumentation

Axé - pop music from Salvador, Bahia

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Ba - Be-Bh - Bi-Bl - Bo - Br-Bu

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Bachata

Baião

Bakersfield sound - gritty, hard-edged reaction against 1950s pop country (Nashville sound)

Bakshy - Turkmen folk music made by travelling musicians also called bakshy

Baiáo - Dance music created by a trio of triangle, bass drum and accordion

Baila - Sri Lankan dance music derived from African slaves held by the Portuguese

Baile Funk - Brazilian dance music literally means "ball", as in "dance party", and "funk"

Baisha xiyue - a song and dance suite from the Naxi of Lijiang, China

Bajourou

Bakou - trilling vocals that accompany Wolof wrestling

Bagad

Bal granmoun

Bal-musette

Balakadri

Ballad - generic term for usually slow, romantic, despairing and catastrophic songs

Ballad calypso

Ballata

Ballet (music)

Balss

[edit] Bam-Bay

Bamberas

Bamboo band - originally from the Solomon Islands, music played by hitting bamboo tubes with sandals

Bamboula wake

Bambuco

Banda - Mexican brass norteño pop music invented in the 1960s

Bangsawan

Bantowbol

Barbarian black metal - extreme black metal about paganism and barbarism

Barbershop music - extremely melodic a cappella vocal style

Barndance

Baroque music - 17th-18th century European classical music

Baroque metal

Bass music (Miami bass, Booty bass) - electro influenced form of hip hop dance music arising in Miami, Florida

Bastard Pop

Batá

Batá-rumba

Batcave (club)

Batucada

Batuco

Bayin - Taiwanese Hakka instrumental music

[edit] Be-Bh

Beach music

Beat

Beatboxing - Music performed by producing percussive and melodic sounds with the mouth alone, often mimicking instruments, recorded samples and other sounds not typically associated with vocalization.

Bebop - 1940s jazz style with complex improvisation and a fast tempo

Bedoui

Bedoui citadinisé

Beguine (biguine)

Beguine moderne

Beguine vide

Beiguan - Taiwanese instrumental music

Bel canto - Italian vocal style which arose in the late 16th century and which ended in the mid-19th century

Belair

Bend-skin

Benga

Bhajan - a northern Hindu religious song

Bhakti

Bhangra - originally Punjabi dance music

Bhangra-wine

Bhangragga

Bhangramuffin

[edit] Bi-Bl

Big band music - large orchestras which play a form of swing music

Big Beat - 1990s electronic music based on breakbeat with other influences

Big Hip

Biguine - Martinican folk music

Biguine moderne - Martinican biguine adapted to pop forms and including reggae and other influences

Black ambient - blackened form of dark ambient music

Blackened death metal - a fusion between death and black metal

Black metal - highly distorted and swift form of heavy metal

Bleak house - downbeat techno

Blair beat a little known type of music founded by Sir Blair Mason

Bloco afro

Bluegrass Gospel

Bluegrass - American country music mixed with Irish and Scottish influences

Blue-eyed soul

Blues - African-American music from the Mississippi Delta area

Blues ballad

Blues-rock

Blurcore

Big Drum Dance

Bigono duu

Biomusic

Bitchcore

Bitpop

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Bocet

Bohemian Dub - Contemporary music style that blends Hip-Hop, Dub, Funk, Pop and Klezmer music

Boi - Central Amazonian folk music

Bolero - Spanish and Cuban dance and music

Bomba

Bombay pop

Bongo - distinctive African drum and style of drumming

Bongo wake

Boogie rock

Boogie woogie - style of piano-based blues popular in the 1940s US

Boogaloo - soul and mambo fusion popular in 1960s United States

BooM Rock-Persian Melodies & Sounds and world Funk-Rock BOOMBAND for example.

Booty bass (Miami bass, Bass music)

Borbangnadyr

Borbannadir - type of Tuvan xoomii said to sound like the rapids of a river

Border ballad

Bossa nova

Bothy ballad

Bouncy techno

Boy band

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Brass band

Brass Hop

Brat Rock

Brazilian funk

Brazilian jazz - bossa nova and samba mixed with American jazz

Breakbeat

Breakbeat hardcore

Breakcore

Bright disco

Brill Building Pop - named after New York's Brill Building at 1619 Broadway

Britfunk

Britpop

British blues

British dance band

British folk

British Invasion

Broadside ballad

Broken beat

Brown-eyed soul

Brukdown - rural Belizean creole music

Brutal prog

Bubblegum dance

Bubblegum pop - sometimes synonymous with pop music, especially that performed by teen idols; can also refer to specific styles of South African or Japanese pop

Buiasche

Bikutsi

Bulerias

Bumba-meu-boi

Bunggul

Bunraku - Japanese style originated from a kind of puppet-theater.

Burger-highlife

Burgundian School

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Ca - Cc-Ce - Ch - Ci-Cl - Co - Cr-Cu

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[edit] Cad-Cam

Ca din tulnic

Ca pe lunca

Ca trù - (hat a dao) Vietnamese folk music

Cabaret

Cadence

Cadence-lypso - guitar-dominated Cadence music combined with calypso horns

Cadence rampa

Café-aman

Cai luong - Vietnamese opera

Cajun music

Cakewalk

Calenda - Trinidadian drum dance

Calentanos - folk music of the Balsas River Basin, Mexico

Calgia - traditional urban ensemble music from Macedonia

Calipso - Venezuelan calypso music

Calypso - Trinidadian folk, and later pop, genre

Calypso-style baila - Sri Lankan baila mixed with calypso influences

Campursari - Indonesian modern folk music, a fusion of dangdut, langgam, and pop music

Campillaneros

[edit] Can-Car

Caña

Candombe

Canon

Cantata

Cante chico

Cante jondo

Canterbury Scene

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