List of genres of music (N-Z)

Recognised musical genres and forms include the following (see the individual genre pages for more information on each genre and musical genres for information about the major groupings).

See also: List of genres of music (A-M) N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

N

• Na trapeza - Greek-Turkish slow songs
• Nagauta - Japanese style of shamisen-playing
• Naghmehs
• Naked funk
• Nangma - Tibetan dance music
• Nanguan - Taiwanese instrumental music
• Narcocorrido
• Narodni muzika - Serbian folk music
• Nasheed - a capella music closely related with Islamic revival in the 20th century
• Nashville Sound
• Native American gospel
• Nederpop
• Néo kýma
• Neomelodici - modern Neapolitan pop songs
• Neo-classicism
• Neo-ska
• Neo-swing
• Neue Deutsche Welle
• Neue Volksmusik
• New Age
• New Jack Swing
• New Orleans blues
• New Orleans contemporary brass band
• New Orleans jazz
• New Romantic
• New rumba
• 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
• 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
• Noh - highly-stylized Japanese theater and music style
• Noise music
• Noise pop
• Noise rock
• Nongak - Korean folk music played by 20-30 performers on different kinds of percussion instruments
• Norae Undong - Korean rock music with socially aware lyrics
• Norteño (Tex-Mex) - Modernized corridos pop music of Mexico
• Northern harmony
• Northumbrian smallpipe music
• Northern soul
• 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
• Nu metal
• Nu soul (neo soul)
• Nueva cancion - 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
• Old school hip hop
• Old time country
• Olonkho - Yakut epic songs
• Oltului
• Omutibo
• On ikki muqam - Uighur classical suite in 12 parts
• Oom pah band
• Opera
• Oratorical calypso
• Oratorio
• Orchestra
• Organum
• Oriental Foxtrot
• Orovela - eastern Georgian work songs
• Orquestas Tejanas
• Ottava rima
• Outlaw country
• Outsider music
• Özgün
• Ozwodna

P

• P-Funk
• Padams
• Paisley Underground
• Palm wine
• Palos
• Panambih - tembang sunda that uses metered poetry
• Panchai baja - Nepalese wedding music
• P'ansori - Korean folk music played by a singer and a drummer
• Parisian soukous
• Parranda - Afro-Venezuelan form of music
• El pasillo
• Payada de contrapunto
• Pambiche (Merengue estilo yanqui)
• Pan music
• Paranda - Garifuna music of Belize
• Parang
• Partido alto
• El pasacalle
• Paseo
• Pasillo
• Pellimanni music - Finnish folk dance music
• Peroveta anedia
• Petenera
• Petro
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Polka
• Polo
• Polonaise
• Pols - Danish fiddle and accordion dance music
• Polska
• Pop-makossa
• Pop melayu - Malay pop music with dangdut overlay
• Pop mop - Mongolian pop music
• Pop music
• Pop rai
• Pop sunda - Sundanese mixture of gamelan degung and pop music structures
• Popular music
• Porro - Colombian big band music
• Post-minimalism
• Post punk
• Post-rock
• Post-romanticism
• Power metal
• Power pop
• Pow-wow - Native American dance music
• Ppongtchak - Korean pop music developed during the Japanese occupation
• Program symphony
• Progressive electronic music
• Progressive house
• Progressive metal
• Progressive bluegrass
• Progressive rock
• Psychedelic music
• Psychobilly
• Psych-pop
• Psy-trance
• Australian pub rock
• UK pub rock
• Punjabi thumri - a type of thumri from Punjab
• Punk-pop, a.k.a. Pop-punk
• 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 music
• Rai - Algerian folk music now developed into a popular style
• Rake-and-scrape - Bahamanian instrumental music
• Ramkbach
• Ramvong
• Ranchera - pop mariachi from 1950s film soundtracks
• Rap (hip hop)
• Rap dogba
• Rapcore
• Rapso
• Rara
• Rasiya
• Rateliai
• 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)
• Ricercar
• Rímur - Icelandic heroic epic songs
• Ring Bang - the Barbadian sound of soca
• Riot grrl
• Rock
• Rock opera
• Rock and roll
• Rock en espanol
• Rock nacional - Argentinian rock
• Rockabilly
• Rocksteady
• Rococo
• Rodeo music
• 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

S

• Sacred Harp
• Sadcore
• Saetas
• Saibara
• Saiyidi - folk music of the upper Nile Delta
• Sakyapa chanting - form of Tibetan Buddhist chanting
• 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 gorda
• Salsa romantica - a soft, romantic form of salsa music
• Saltarello
• Salve
• Samba - form of Brazilian popular music
• Samba breque - a genre ofsamba with a choppy, reggae-like rhythm
• Samba-canção - modern samba dance music
• Samba da garrafa - modern incarnation of samba do pagode
• Samba de enredo - Samba played during Carnival celebrations
• Samba do pagode - popular dance-oriented samba
• Samba reggae - samba and reggae fusion
• Sambai
• Sangeo - Afro-Venezuelan form of percussion music
• Sanjo - Korean instrumental folk music
• Sanjuanitos
• Sarandunga
• Sardinian polyphonic chanting
• Sato kagura
• Sawahili - folk music from the Mediterranean coast of Egypt
• Sayas - Bolivian dance music which was popularized as lambada in the 1980s
• Sazdohol
• Scandinavian metal (Viking metal)
• Schottisch
• Schranz
• Sea shantie
• Sean nós
• Second Viennese School
• Sega music
• Seggae
• Seis
• Semba
• Semi-tone calypso (Half calypso)
• Sephardic music
• Serialism
• Serrana
• Set dance
• Sevdalinka - Bosnian urban popular music
• Sevillana
• Shabab
• Shabad
• Shalako - Armenian folk dance
• Shan'ge - Taiwanese Hakka mountain songs
• Shango
• Shape note
• Sharkan - American Christian chanting
• Shawm and drum - Instrumental pairing common in Gypsy music
• Shlager
• 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
• Shin-min'yo - a modernized form of min'yo, or folk music
• Shoegazing
• Shoka - Japanese songs written during the Meiji Restoration to bring Western music to Japanese schools
• Shomyo - Japanese Buddhist chanting
• Showtunes
• 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
• Single tone calypso
• Sinjonjo
• Sizhu - folk ensembles from southern China
• Ska
• Skacore (third wave of ska)
• Skald
• Ska punk
• Skiffle
• Skotsploech - traditional Frisian ensemble music
• Skillingstryk
• Slack-key guitar (kihoalu) - Hawaiian form invented by retuning open strings on a guitar
• Slängpolska
• Slide
• Slow airs
• Slowcore
• Sludge metal
• Smooth jazz
• Soca
• Soca-bhangra
• Soca-funk
• Soft rock
• Solea (soleares)
• Son
• 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
• Sonido
• Soukous
• Soul jazz
• Soul music
• Sout - urban music from Kuwait and Bahrain
• Southern harmony
• Southern hip hop
• Southern rock
• Southern soul
• Space rock
• Spectralism
• Speed garage
• Speed metal
• Spirituals
• Spouge - Barbadian folk music
• Square dance
• St. Louis blues
• St. Louis soul
• Stambolovski orkestri
• Staroprazske pisnieky - pub songs from Prague
• Steelband
• Stev - short, often improvised, Norwegian folk songs
• Stoner metal
• Straight edge
• Strathspeys
• Street songs - bawdy adolescent chants of unknown authorship
• Stride
• String - 1980s Thai pop music
• String quartet
• Stubenmusik - Bavarian string ensembles
• Suite
• Suomi rock
• Surf rock
• Sutartines
• Swahili sound
• Sway
• Swamp blues
• Swamp pop
• Swing music
• Sygyt - type of xoomii (Tuvan throat singing), likened to the sound of whistling
• Symphonic black metal
• Symphonic poem
• Symphony
• Synth pop
• Syrtó

T

• Taarab
• Tćttir
• Tai tu - Vietnamese chamber music
• Taiwanese pop - early Taiwanese pop music influenced by enka and popular with older listeners
• Tala
• Tamborito - Panamanian dance music
• Tambu
• Tamburitza
• Tamil tiruppukazh
• Táncház - Hungarian dance music
• Tango - Argentinian dance music that became internationally popular in the 1920s
• Tango-canción - the first wildly popular form of tango in Argentina
• Tango flamenco
• Tanguk - a form of Korean court music that includes elements of Chinese music
• Tanjidor - traditional, instrumental music from Indonesia with various brass intruments, usually played in processions
• Talempong - a distinct Minangkabau gamelan music
• Taibubu
• Tapany maintso
• Tappa
• Tarabu
• Tarana - form of vocal music from northern India using highly rythmic nonsense syllables
• Tarannum
• Tarantella
• Tarantolati - Calabrian folk healing ritual
• Taranto
• Tawshih
• Tchink-system
• Tchinkoumé
• Tech house
• Techno
• Techno-tribal
• Tembang sunda - Sundanese sung free verse poetry
• Teen pop
• Tejano
• Texas blues
• Tex-Mex - American term for that which is known as norteño in Mexico
• Thrash metal
• Thumri - a type of popular Hindustani vocal music
• Tibetan pop - pop music heavily influenced by Chinese forms, emerging in the 1980s
• Tientos
• Tillana - form of vocal music from southern India using highly rhythmic nonsense syllables
• Tin Pan Alley
• Tina
• Tinga
• Tis távlas - drinking songs from Epirus
• Togaku
• Tonas
• Toshe - Tibetan dance music
• T'ong guitar - acoustic guitar pop music of Korea
• Township jive (Mbaqanga)
• Toziych
• Trallalero - Genoese urban songs
• Trampská hudba - Czech urban folk music
• Trance
• Tribal house
• Trip-hop
• Trikitrixa - Basque accordion music
• Troista-country
• Troll metal
• Tropicalia
• TRT
• Truck-driving country
• Tsámiko
• Tsapika
• Tumba
• Tuuli (Maglaal)
• Turbo-folk - aggressive form of modernized Serbian music
• Tuvan throat-singing
• Twarab
• Twee pop
• Two tone (second wave of ska)

U

• Ufie
• UK garage
• Umui - Okinawann religious songs
• Underground music
• UPA
• Urban Cowboy
• Urtin duu
• Ute

V

• Vakodrazana
• Vakojazzana
• Vallenato - accordion-based Colombian folk music
• Vallenato-protesta
• Variet
• Vaudeville
• Verbunkos - Hungarian folk music
• Verismo
• Viennese-style classical music
• Villancicos
• Villanella - 16th century Neapolitan songs
• Virelais
• Vísir
• Vuelie
• Vocal house

W

• Wahrani
• Waila (chicken scratch) - a Tohono O'odham fusion of polka, norteño and Native American music
• Waltz
• Wangga
• Warabe uta
• Wassoulou
• Watcha watcha
• West Coast hip hop
• Western blues
• Western swing
• Western Tradition of Sephardic music
• Women's music or womyn's music, wimmin's music--1970s lesbian/feminist
• Wong shadow - 1960s Thai pop music
• Work song
• Worldbeat
• World music

X

• Xi'an drum music - popular around Xi'an, China, ensembles of percussion and wind instruments
• Xoomii (khoomii, hoomii) - a type of Tuvann throat singing

Y

• Yang - form of Tibetan Buddhist chanting
• Yanvalou
• El yarabi
• Yodeling
• Young Brigade
• Yukar

Z

• Zairean sound
• Zajal
• Zapin - derived from ancient Arabic music, zapin is popular throughout Malaysia
• Zarzuela - a form of Spanish operetta
• Zbójnicki
• Zen (music)
• Zendani
• Ziglibithy
• Zikir Barat - Sufi vocal music from Malaysia
• Zinge - Latvian vocal music
• Zoblazo
• Zouglou
• Zouk - Antillean dance music
• Zouk chouv
• Zouk funk - a fusion of zouk and funk
• Zout
• Zydeco - popular Louisianan Creole music