List of styles of music: N–R

N O P Q R

N

Na - Ng

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Na

• Nagauta - Japanese style of shamisen-playing
• Nakasi - Taiwanese musical form
• Nangma - Tibetan dance music
• Nanguan - Taiwanese instrumental music
• Narcocorrido - Spanish for "Drug ballad", this Mexican music's theme was equivalent to gangster rap
• Nardcore - Nardcore is a hardcore punk movement that came out of Southern California in the early 1980s
• Narodna muzika - Bosnian folk music
• Nasheed - a capella music closely related with Islamic revival in the 20th century
• Nashville Sound - pop-country music based out of Nashville, Tennessee
• National Socialist Black Metal - NSBM Nazi black metal
• Naturalismo - a term for the 2000s folk movement also referred to as New Weird America or Freak Folk
• Nederpop - popular music of the Netherlands, especially in the Dutch language
• Neoclassical (Dark Wave)
• Neoclassical (New Age)
• Neoclassical music
• Neo-classical metal
• Néo kýma
• Neofolk - a form of folk music that emerged from European ideals and post-industrial music
• Neo-Medieval
• Neo-prog
• Neo-Psychedelia
• Neo Soul (Nu Soul) - late 1990s and early 2000s American fusion of contemporary R&B, 1970s style soul music, hip hop music, jazz, and classical music
• Nerdcore
• Neue Deutsche Härte
• Neue Deutsche Welle - a kind of German New Wave music
• New Age music - numerous varieties of music associated with New Age spirituality and culture, especially including atmospheric and natural sounds
• New Beat - a downtempo music style from Belgium, contemporary to Chicago House and Detroit Techno.
• New Instrumental
• New Jack Swing (New Jack R&B, Swingbeat) - late 1980s and early 1990s American fusion of hip hop music, R&B, doo wop and soul music
• New Orleans blues - piano and horn-heavy blues from the city of New Orleans, Louisiana
• New Orleans jazz
• New Pop
• New prog
• New Rave
• New Romantic - popular British New Wave from the early 1980s
• New school hip hop - generic term for hip hop music recorded after about 1989
• New Taiwanese Song - modern Taiwanese pop music which combines ballads, rock and roll and hip hop
• 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 Wave of New Wave
• New Weird America - term to defining emerging folk/psychedelia/drone/noize influenced by pre-war country-folk-blues & 1960s counter cultural underground music.
• New York blues - jazzy, urban blues from the early 20th century
• New York House (also known as US Garage)
• Newgrass - progressive bluegrass

Ng

• Nganja
• Niche - sub-genre of UK Garage and Bassline House, name derived from the club in Sheffield, that first started putting on regular bassline nights
• Nightcore - sub genre for Vocal Trance music with high pitch and bpm.
• Nintendocore
• Nisiótika - folk songs of the Greek islands
• No Wave - avant-garde late 1970s outgrowth of New Wave and punk rock
• Noh - highly-stylized Japanese theater and music style
• Noise music
• Noise pop - experimental 1990s outgrowth of punk
• Noise rock - atonal punk rock from the 1980s
• Nongak - Korean folk music played by 20-30 performers on different kinds of percussion instruments
• Norae Undong - Korean rock music with socially aware lyrics
• Nordic folk music
  • Nordic folk dance music
• Nortec - electronic style from Tijuana, Mexico
• Norteño (Tex-Mex) - Modernized corridos pop music of Mexico
• Northern Soul - late 1960s variety of soul music from northern England
• Nota
• Nu breaks
• Nu jazz - fusion of late 1990s jazz and electronic music
• Nu metal - fusion of heavy metal music with genres such as hip hop, funk, grunge and electronic music
• Nu soul (neo soul) - popular fusion of hip hop music and soul music
• Nueva canción - Chilean pop-folk music which influenced by native Chilean and Bolivian forms
• Nyatiti- a Kenyan song for the Luo community.

O

• Obscuro
• Oi! - 1980s style of British punk rock
• Old school hip hop - generic term for hip hop music recorded before approximately 1989
• Old-time - archaic term for many different styles that were an outgrowth of Appalachian folk music and fed into country music
• Oldies
• Olonkho - Yakut epic songs
• Oltului
• Ondo
• Opera - theatrical performances in which all or most dialogue is sung with musical accompaniment
• Operatic Pop - subgenre of pop music that is performed in a classical operatic style (also referred to as "Popera")
• Oratorio - similar to opera but without scenery, costumes or acting
• Orchestra - a large ensemble, especially one used to played European classical music
• Organ trio - a style of jazz from the 1960s that blended blues and jazz (and later "soul jazz") and which was based around the sound of the Hammond organ
• Organic ambient - often acoustic ambient music which uses instruments and styles borrowed from world music
• Organum - Middle Ages polyphonic music
• Oriental metal - a subgenre of folk metal that incorporates elements of traditional Middle Eastern music.
• Orgel (Organ Orgue) - keyboard instrument with/without pedals
• Ottava rima - Italian rhyming stanzas
• Outlaw country - late 1960s and 70s form of country music with a hard-edged sound and rebellious lyrics
• Outsider music - generic term for music performed by outsiders

P

Pa - Pi - Po - Pr

Pa

• P-Funk - 1970s fusion of funk, heavy metal and psychedelic rock, most closely associated with the bands Funkadelic and Parliament, who shared many members collectively known as P-Funk
• Pagan metal
• Pagan rock
• Pagode - Brazilian style of music which originated in the Rio de Janeiro region
• Paisley Underground - 1980s style of alternative rock that drew heavily on psychedelia
• Palm wine - fusion of numerous West African, Latin American and European genres, popular throughout coastal West Africa in the 20th century
• Panambih - tembang sunda that uses metered poetry
• Panchai baja - Nepalese wedding music
• Panchavadyam - Temple music from Kerala, India
• Pansori - Korean folk music played by a singer and a drummer
• Paranda - Garifuna form of music
• Parranda - Afro-Venezuelan form of music
• Parody - humorous renditions of various songs
• Patriotic
• Pambiche (Merengue estilo yanqui)
• Paranda - Garifuna music of Belize
• Parang - Trinidadian Christmas carols
• Partido alto
• Pasillo
• Psychobilly - Punk rock and country
• Peace Punk
• Pelimanni music - Finnish folk dance music
• Petenera
• Peyote Song - a mixture of gospel and traditional Native American music
• Philadelphia soul - soft 1970s soul that came out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pi

• Piano blues
• Piano rock
• Pimba - Origin: Portugal.
• Piedmont blues
• Pinoy rock - rock and roll sung in Tagalog from the Philippines
• Pinpeat orchestra
• Piphat - ancient form of Thai classical ensemble
• Piyyutim
• Plainchant (Gregorian chant)
• Plena
• Pleng phua cheewit - Thai protest rock
• Pleng Thai sakorn - a Thai interpretation of Western classical music

Po

• Polka
• Polo
• Polonaise
• Pols - Danish fiddle and accordion dance music
• Polska
• Pong lang
• Pop folk
• Pop music
• Pop punk
• Pop rap
• Pop rock
• Pop sunda - Sundanese mixture of gamelan degung and pop music structures
• Pornocore
• Porro - Colombian big band music
• Post-disco
• Post-grunge
• Post-hardcore- Slite mixture of Hardcore and Punk rock
• Post-industrial
• Post-metal
• Post-minimalism
• Post-punk
• Post-rock
• Post-romanticism
• Power electronics
• Power metal
• Power noise (or rhythmic noise)
• Power pop
• Powerviolence
• Pow-wow - Native American dance music
• Ppongtchak - Korean pop music developed during the Japanese occupation

Pr

• Praise song
• Program symphony
• Progressive electronic music
• Progressive folk music
• Progressive house
• Progressive metal
• Progressive bluegrass
• Progressive rock
• Progressive trance
• Protopunk
• Psychedelic music
• Psych folk or Psychedelic folk
• Psychedelic rock
• Psychedelic trance (Psy-trance)
• Psychobilly
• Punk blues - a US music genre that developed in the 1980s, which mixes elements of blues with the aggressive sound of punk.
• Punk Cabaret - a fusion of musical theater and cabaret style music with the aggressive, raw nature of punk rock.
• Punk jazz
• 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 updated for mainstream audiences, was originated in India
• Quadrille
• Queercore
• Quiet Storm

R

Ra - Rh

Ra

• Rada
• Rap
• Raga rock - Swiss soul, rock and Indian music fusion
• Raga
• Raggamuffin (Ragga)
• Ragga Jungle
• Ragtime
• 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
• Rara
• Rare groove
• Rasiya
• Rave
• Rebetiko
• Red Dirt (music)
• reel
• Reggae
• Reggae dancehall (see Dancehall)
• Reggae fusion
• Reggae highlife
• Reggaeton
• Rekilaulu - Finnish rhyming sleigh songs
• Relax Music
• Religious
• Rembetiko
• Renaissance music
• Requiem
• Retro Rock

Rh

• Rhapsody
• Rhyming spiritual - Bahamanian hymns
• Rhythm and blues (R&B)
• Rhythmic noise (or power noise)
• Ricercar
• Rímur - Icelandic heroic epic songs
• Riot grrrl
• Rock
• Rock opera
• Rock and roll
• Rock en español
• Rockabilly
• Rocksteady
• Rococo
• Romantic period in music
• Rondeaux
• Ronggeng - a folk music from Malacca, Malaysia
• Roots reggae
• Roots rock
• Roots rock reggae
• Rumba
  • African Rumba
  • Cuban Rumba (yambu, columbia, and guaguanco)
  • Flamenco Rumba also known as Gypsy rumba