List of music styles

• Fann at-Tanbura
• Fijiri
• Khaliji
• Liwa
• Sawt

• Experimental music
• Noise
• Musique concrète
• Electroacoustic

• Early music
  • Medieval music (500–1400)
    • ars antiqua (1170–1310)
    • ars nova (1310–1377)
    • ars subtilior (1360–1420)
  • Renaissance music (1400–1600) eras.
  • Baroque music (1600–1750)
  • galant music (1720s–1770s)
• Common-practice period
  • Baroque music (1600–1750)
  • galant music (1720s–1770s)
  • Classical period (music) (1750–1820)
  • Romantic music (c.1780–1910)
• 20th and 21st centuries (1901–present):
  • Modernism (music) (1890–1930)
  • Impressionism in music (1875 or 1890–1925)
  • Neoclassicism (music) (1920–1950)
  • high modernism (1930–present)
  • postmodern music (1930–present) eras
  • Experimental music (1950–present)
  • Contemporary classical music (1945 or 1975–present)

• Children's Music
• Dance music
• Music written for the score of a play, musicals, or similar: Filmi, incidental music, video game music, music hall songs and showtunes
• Ballroom dance music: pasodoble, cha cha cha and others
• Religious music: Gregorian chant, spirituals, hymns and the like
• Occasional music: military music, marches, national anthems and related compositions
• Regional and national music with no significant commercial impact abroad, except when it is a version of an international genre, such as: traditional music, oral traditions, sea shanties, work songs, nursery rhymes, Arabesque and indigenous music. In North America and Western Europe, regional and national genres that are not from the Western world are sometimes classified as world music.
• Yodeling

These categories are not exhaustive. A music platform, Gracenote, listed more than 2000 music genres (included by those created by ordinary music lovers, who are not involved within the music industry, these being said to be part of a 'folksonomy', i.e. a taxonomy created by non-experts). Most of these genres were created by music labels to target new audiences, however classification is useful to find music and distribute it.

• Genealogy of musical genres

This list is split into four separate pages:

• List of styles of music: A–F
• List of styles of music: G–M
• List of styles of music: N–R
• List of styles of music: S–Z

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• Genres of popular music - Interactive relationships diagram