List of styles of music: S–Z
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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
- Sertanejo
- 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 - pertaining to songs describing the current situation; most prevalent in films
- 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
Sk
So
- Soca
- Soft rock
- Son-batá (batá rock)
- Son montuno - Cuban folk music
- Sonata
- Songo - a mixture of changuí and son montuno
- Songo-salsa - a mixture of songo, hip hop and salsa
- Sophisti-pop
- Soukous
- Soul blues
- Soul jazz
- Soul music
- Soundtrack
- Southern Gospel
- Southern Harmony
- Southern hip hop
- Southern metal
- Southern rock
- Southern soul
- Space age pop
- Space music
- Space rock
- Spectralism
- Speedcore
- Speed garage
- Speed metal
- Spirituals
- Spouge - Barbadian folk music
- Sprechgesang
- Square dance
St
- St. Louis blues
- Steelband
- Stoner metal
- Stoner rock
- Straight edge
- Strathspeys
- Stride
- String - 1980s Thai pop music
- String quartet
- Sufi music
- Suite
- Sunshine pop
- Suomirock
- Super Eurobeat
- Surf ballads
- Surf instrumental
- Surf music
- Surf pop
- Surf rock
- Swamp blues
- Swamp pop
- Swamp rock
- Swingbeat (New Jack Swing, New Jack R&B)
- Swing music
Sy
- Sygyt - type of xoomii (Tuva throat singing), likened to the sound of whistling
- Symphonic black metal
- Symphonic metal
- Symphonic poem
- Symphonic rock
- Symphony
- Synthpop
- Synthpunk
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
- Theme music
- 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
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