Rock

Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s an...

Pop

The term pop music (abbreviated pop) refers to a genre of music or an entire music industry. It is also sometimes used i...

Klassieke muziek

Classical music, sometimes also classical music or artifice music, refers to artistic, sacred and secular music composed...

Elektronische muziek

Electronic music is music that uses electronic musical instruments, digital instruments or circuit-based music technolog...

Jazz

Jazz is a genre of music that originated in African American communities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jazz...

Folk, World, & Country

As well as covering the country, this genre also encompasses many different musical styles from around the world, most o...

Pop Rock

Pop Rock grew out of Rock & Roll and Beat in the 1960s. This term can describe rock music that follows the traditional "...

Funk / Soul

Funk is a musical genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythm...

Stage & Screen

This genre is reserved for music associated with musicals, soundtracks, plays and other scores.

Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative music) is a genre of rock music that eme...

Hard Rock

Hard rock (or heavy rock) is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage ro...

Indie Rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the UK in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with...

Heavy Metal

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, mostly in the U...

Romance

Compared to its predecessors, music from the Romantic era is more fluid, emotional, personal, worldly and experimental....

Punk

Punk rock (or "punk") is a genre of rock music that emerged in the mid-1970s in the United States, Canada, the United Ki...

Soundtrack

Music accompanied, performed or inspired by a film, television programme or video game.

Hip Hop

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of stylized rhythmic music...

Blues

Blues [blues] is a musical style that originated in the African American slave community in the 19th century in the Unit...

Experimental

Experimental music consciously deviates from established musical norms (of a particular genre or of music in general). M...

Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicat...

Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the mid to l...

Modernism

In music, modernism is an aesthetic stance that underlies the period of change and development in musical language that...

Barokmuziek

Baroque music is a style of European classical music from 1600 to 1750. The Baroque era followed the Renaissance period...

Folk

In short, folk music is "local music from there" or "local music from someone else".

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Contemporary classical

Classical / academic music since 1975. Traditional instruments are sometimes used with computers and other electroacoust...

Contemporary Jazz

Contemporary jazz is basically a term for the various permutations of popular mainstream jazz of the 1980s and 1990s. Wh...

Soul

Soul music is a popular musical genre that originated in the United States in the 1950s and early 1960s. It combined ele...

Blues-Rock

Soul, Blues and Rock blend. Usually a form of blue-eyed soul.

Synth-Pop

Synth-pop can be applied to almost any pop music where synthetic sounds dominate. Before non-electronic music was allowe...

Folk Rock

Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest and narrowest sense, the t...

Black Metal

"Black Metal" also came to life and took its name from the 1982 album Black Metal, which also influenced the emergence o...

Death Metal

A form of extreme metal that usually uses low growling vocals with heavily distorted guitars played at speed (usually ex...

Classic Rock

Classic Rock was a genre mostly defined by American FM radio formats in the 1970s and grew out of the earlier AOR (Album...

Vocaal

Although almost all pop music involves sung vocals, in vocal pop music there is an exceptional emphasis on virtuoso, sol...

Country

Country music is an American musical style that dates back to the late 18th century. It came to prominence in the 1920s....

Ambient

Ambient music, also referred to as ambient (from Latin, meaning environment, surroundings), is a musical style and form...

Rock & Roll

Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s an...

Latijnse muziek

Latin music refers to music originating in Latin America, namely the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries of the A...

Indie-Pop

The main tradition in this area is based on guitars and personal lyrics, and this style has been adopted by many musical...

Reggae

"Reggae" came to the fore in Jamaica in 1968 as a stage in a continuum of musical styles after the stable ska and rock....

Hardcore

Hardcore may refer to the "hardcore" style of electronic dance music, which is usually quite fast and always rather hard...

Thrash Metal

Thrash (or thrash metal) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggressiveness and oft...

Dance-pop

Uptempo music influenced by post-disco, synth-pop, new wave and house, characterized by strong rhythms and uncomplicated...

Non-Music

The Non-Music genre is for releases without music, such as speeches, comedy, audiobooks, poetry, PSAs, special effects,...

Disco

One of the main genres of dance music of the 20th century, which originated in the early 1970s.

Ballade

The popular narrative song was spread by word of mouth. In the English tradition, it usually follows the form of rhymed...

Funk

Funk is a musical genre that emerged in the mid-to-late 1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, dancea...

Electro

A style that began as an early form of hip-hop, Electro has grown to encompass anything that uses the classic, electroni...

Garage Rock

The raw, energetic and primal diversity of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s when many young people, inspir...

New Wave

New Wave is a genre of rock music and a term that became popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s with connections to p...

Doom-Metal

In this genre, slow-burning electric guitars shred walls of thick and heavy riffs, playing sostenuto and creating effect...

Rhythm & Blues

A rhythmic style, derived from the blues, that was a great influence on soul and a precursor to rock n roll. Releases us...

Chanson

A chanson is generally any lyrical French song, although most often it refers to the polyphonic French song of late medi...

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (libretto) and musical score,...

House

In early 1980s Chicago, club-goers named the House as a blend of the music Frankie Knuckles played at the Warehouse disc...

Akoestische muziek

Acoustic is any music that focuses on acoustic instruments instead of electronics.

Downtempo

Downtempo (or downbeat) music is associated with a number of different genres, including electronica, jazz, rock and som...

Country-Rock

The typical country-rock song was an identifiable "rock" song that used at least one element of standard country instrum...

Post-Punk

Post-punk (originally called new music) is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s,...