List of genres of music: G-M - Definition and Overview

G H I J K L M

G

Ga - Ge-Gn - Go-Gr - Gu-Gy

• G-funk

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
• Gallant

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

Gar-Gay

• Gar - Tibetan classical music
• Garage
• Garage rock
• Garage techno
• Garrotin
• Gavotte
• Gayap - Afro-Trinidadian call and response work song
• Gbébé

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

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)
• 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

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

H

Ha - He-Ho - Hu-Hy

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

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

He-Ho

• Heavy compas
• 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

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

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 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

J

Ja-Je - Ji-Ju

• J-pop - Japanese bubblegum pop

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

Ji-Ju

• Jibaro
• Jig
• Jing ping
• 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

K

Ka - Ke-Kh - Ki-Kp - Kr-Kw

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

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

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

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

L

La - Le-Lo - Lu

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

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

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

M

Ma - Mb-Mg - Mi - Min-Mir - Mo-Mp - Mu

• M-Base

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

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

Mar-Maz

• Marabi
• Maracatú - African and Portuguese music popular around Recife, Brazil
• Marching music
• Marga - Indian classical music
• Mariachi - pop form of son jalisciense
• Marimba
• Maritime folk
• Marrabenta
• Maskanda - popularized Zulu-traditional music
• Mass
• Martinetes
• Matamuerte
• Math rock
• Mazurka

Mb-Mg

• Mbalax
• Mbaqanga (township jive)
• Mbira (Chimurenga)
• Mbube
• Mbumba
• Medh
• Meditation
• Medieval music
• Mejorana
• Melhoun
• Melhûn
• Melodic trance
• Memphis blues
• 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)

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

Min-Mir

• Min'yo - Japanese folk music
• Mineras
• Mini-jazz - Caribbean jazz
• Minimalist music
• Minimalist trance
• Minstrel show
• Mirabras
• Mirolóyia

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

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)