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Myths About Musical Instruments
Music is a common theme in the folklore and mythologies of the world’s cultures. Thus, myths provide a valuable point of entry for study of a musical culture. This entry will provide a brief overview of the numerous instruments referenced in these tales.
Chordophones
Chordophones are stringed instruments and are among the most common ...
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- Exposition
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- Instruments, Types of
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- Aerophones, Lip-Vibrated
- Aerophones, Reed
- Chordophones, an Overview
- Chordophones: Fiddles
- Chordophones: Harps and Lyres
- Chordophones: Lutes
- Chordophones: Musical Bows
- Chordophones: Zithers
- Electronic Music
- Idiophones, an Overview
- Idiophones: Concussion Instruments
- Idiophones: Friction Instruments
- Idiophones: Plucked Instruments
- Idiophones: Scraped Instruments
- Idiophones: Shaken Instruments
- Idiophones: Stamping Instruments
- Idiophones: Struck Instruments
- Membranophones
- Metallophones
- Percussion
- Social and Cultural Movements
- British Invasion
- Candomblé
- Capitalism
- Christianity
- Civil Rights
- Colonialism
- Commodification
- Confucianism
- Diaspora
- Dissent, Resistance, and Music of Social Protest
- First Peoples
- Hinduism
- Human Rights, Music and
- Indigenous Rights
- Islam
- Jazz as a Movement
- Judaism
- Mormonism
- Native American Music
- Popular Music, as a Movement
- Protest Music
- Rastafarianism
- Rebellion
- Roots Music
- Santeria
- Shinto
- Sikhism
- Social Movements
- Spiritualism and Spiritism
- Sufism
- Music Cultures of the World Africa
- Africa, Central
- Africa, Indigenous Music, Ancestral and Contemporary Practices
- Africa, North
- Africa, Southeast
- Africa, Southeast: Rift Valley
- Africa, Southeast: The Horn
- Africa, Southern
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Africa, West
- Africa, West: Guinea
- Africa, West: Sahel
- Algeria: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Algeria: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Angola: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Angola: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Arabic Music
- Benin: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Botswana: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Botswana: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Côte d’Ivoire: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Côte D’Ivoire: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Cameroon: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Central African Republic: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Chad: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Chad: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Congo, Democratic Republic of: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Egypt: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Egypt: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Equatorial Guinea: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Eritrea: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Eritrea: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Ethiopia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Ethiopia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Gambia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Gambia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Ghana: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Ghana: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Guinea, Republic of: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Guinea, Republic of: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Guinea-Bissau: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Guinea-Bissau: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Kenya: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Kenya: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Lesotho: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Lesotho: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Lesotho: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Libya: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Libya: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Madagascar: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Madagascar: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Malawi: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Malawi: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Mali: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Mali: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Mauritania: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Mauritania: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Morocco: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Morocco: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Mozambique: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Mozambique: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Niger: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Niger: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Nigeria: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Nigeria: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Senegal: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Senegal: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Sierra Leone: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Sierra Leone: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Somalia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Somalia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- South Africa: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- South Africa: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- South Sudan: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- South Sudan: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Swaziland: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Swaziland: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Tanzania: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Tanzania: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Togo: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Togo: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Tunisia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Tunisia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Uganda: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Uganda: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Western Sahara: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Western Sahara: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Zambia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Zambia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Zimbabwe: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Zimbabwe: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Americas
- America, North
- America, South
- Americas
- Americas, Caribbean Insular
- Arctic and Subarctic America
- Argentina: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Argentina: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Belize: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Belize: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Bolivia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Bolivia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Brazil: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Brazil: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Canada: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Canada: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Chile: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Chile: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Colombia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Colombia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Costa Rica: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Costa Rica: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Cuba: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Cuba: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Dominican Republic: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Dominican Republic: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Ecuador: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Ecuador: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- El Salvador: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- El Salvador: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Guatemala: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Guatemala: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Haiti: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Haiti: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice Hawaiian Music
- Mexico: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Mexico: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Native American Music
- Nicaragua: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Nicaragua: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Panama: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Panama: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Paraguay: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Paraguay: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Peru: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Peru: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Puerto Rico: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Puerto Rico: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Suriname
- Trinidad and Tobago: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Trinidad and Tobago: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- United States: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- United States: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Uruguay: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Uruguay: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Venezuela: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Venezuela: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Asia
- Afghanistan: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Afghanistan: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Asia, an Overview
- Asia, Central and East
- Asia, South: Indian Subcontinent
- Asia, Southeast
- Azerbaijan: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Azerbaijan: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Bangladesh: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Bangladesh: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Borneo: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Burma/Myanmar: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Burma/Myanmar: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Cambodia and the Khmer People: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Cambodia and the Khmer People: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- China: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- China: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- India: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- India: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Indonesia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Indonesia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Iran: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Iran: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Japan: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Japan: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Kazakhstan: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Kazakhstan: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Korea: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Korea: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Laos: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Laos: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Malaysia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Malaysia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Mongols
- Mongolia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Nepal: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Nepal: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Pakistan: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Pakistan: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Philippines: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Philippines: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Russia and Central Asia: Indigenous Music; Ancestral and Contemporary Practices
- Sarawak: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Singapore: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Singapore: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Tajikistan: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Tajikistan: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Thailand: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Thailand: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Tibet and Tibetans
- Turkmenistan
- Tuva: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Uzbekistan: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Uzbekistan: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Vietnam: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Vietnam: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Middle East
- Arabic Music
- Asia, Middle East
- Cyprus: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Cyprus: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Egypt: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Egypt: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Iran: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Iran: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Israel: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Israel: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Jordan: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Jordan: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Kuwait: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Kuwait: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Lebanon: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Lebanon: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Oman
- Palestine: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Palestine: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Qatar: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Qatar: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Saudi Arabia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Saudi Arabia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Syria: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Syria: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Turkey: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Turkey: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Yemen: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Yemen: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Oceania and Australasia
- Aotearoa: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Aotearoa: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Australia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Australia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Hawaiian Music
- Indonesia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Indonesia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Melanesia
- Micronesia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Micronesia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Oceania
- Papua New Guinea: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Papua New Guinea: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Polynesia
- Sumatra
- Europe
- Albania: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Albania: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Armenia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Armenia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Austria: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Austria: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Azerbaijan: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Azerbaijan: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Belarus: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Belgium: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Belgium: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Bulgaria: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Croatia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Croatia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Cyprus: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Cyprus: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Czech Republic: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Czech Republic: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- England: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- England: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Estonia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Europe
- Europe, British Isles
- Europe, Central
- Europe, Eastern
- Europe, Southeastern
- Europe, Western
- Finland: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Finland: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- France: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- France: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Georgia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Georgia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Germany: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Germany: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Greece: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Greece: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Hungary: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Hungary: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Iceland: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Iceland: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Ireland: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Ireland: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Italy: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Italy: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Kosovo: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Kosovo: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Latvia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Latvia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Macedonia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Macedonia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Moldova: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Moldova: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Montenegro: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Montenegro: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Netherlands: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Netherlands: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Norway: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Poland: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Poland: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Portugal: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Portugal: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Romani Music
- Romania: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Romania: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Russia and Central Asia, an Overview
- Russia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Russia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Scotland: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Scotland: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Serbia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Serbia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Slovakia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Slovakia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Slovenia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Slovenia: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Spain: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Spain: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Sweden: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Sweden: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Switzerland: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Switzerland: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Ukraine: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Ukraine: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Wales: History, Culture, and Geography of Music
- Wales: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice
- Indigenous Music
- Practice in Ethnomusicology
- Acoustic Ecology
- Archiving
- Audio Recording
- Bimusicality
- Biography and Autobiography
- Cantometrics
- Cognitive Ethnomusicology
- Comparative Musicology
- Computer-Aided Research
- Cultural Anthropology
- Cultural Musicology
- Cultural Programming
- Cultural Studies
- Documentaries
- Ecomusicology
- Ethnochoreology
- Ethnographic Film
- Ethnography, Musical
- Ethnomusicology as a Profession
- Ethnomusicology, Applied
- Ethnomusicology, History of
- Ethnomusicology, Issues in
- Ethnopoetics
- Ethnotheory
- Field Recordings
- Fieldwork
- Folklore
- Gender Studies and Music
- Historical Ethnomusicology
- Laboratory Site and Techniques
- Law and Public Policy
- Librarianship
- Medical Ethnomusicology
- Merriam’s Model
- Museums
- Oral History
- Organology
- Participant Observation
- Public-Sector Ethnomusicology
- Research
- Sociomusicology
- Soundscapes
- Spoken Word
- Transcription
- Video Recording
- Writing Ethnomusicology
- Zoomusicology
- Social Issues
- Acculturation
- Advocacy
- Agency
- Appropriation
- Assimilation
- Authenticity
- Body and Embodiment
- Borders
- Capitalism
- Caste
- Censorship
- Civil Rights
- Class
- Collective Action
- Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
- Commemoration
- Commodification
- Conflict
- Cosmology and Mythology
- Cultural Anthropology
- Cultural Studies
- Dissent, Resistance, and Music of Social Protest
- DJ Culture
- Education
- Emotion
- Enculturation
- Endangered Musics
- Ethics
- Ethnicity, Music and
- Ethnocentrism
- Evolution of Music
- Exotic; Exoticism
- Exposition
- Folklore
- Function and Functionalism
- Gender Studies and Music
- Generation
- Globalization
- Government
- Habitus
- Hegemony, Music and
- Hermeneutics, Music and
- Human Rights, Music and
- Hybridity
- Identity, Music and
- Ideology
- Imagined Communities
- Immigrant and Refugee Studies
- Intellectual Property
- Internet
- Invented Tradition
- Isolation
- Language Renewal, Music and
- Law and Public Policy
- Local Music
- Meaning and Metaphor
- Memory
- Migration
- Modernity
- Multicultural Education
- Music Industry
- Nationalism
- Orientalism
- Origins of Music
- Patronage
- Politics and Music
- Postmodernism
- Poverty
- Protest Music
- Public Policy
- Punishment
- Reception
- Repatriation
- Research
- Revival
- Rural Space and the Rural Imaginary
- Sexuality, Social Sciences, and Music
- Slavery and Music
- Social Movements
- Sociology of Music
- Space and Place
- Spiritualism and Spiritism
- Spirituality
- Status
- Stereotype
- Subculture
- Sustainability
- Tourism and Music
- Tradition
- Traditional
- Transmission
- Transnationalism
- Universals
- Urbanization (Urbanism)
- Violence
- Women and Music
- Religion and Music
- Social Structures Dispersed Across Geographic Locations
- Theory and Method
- Acoustic Ecology
- Acoustics
- Aesthetics
- Analysis of Music
- Archaeomusicology
- Art-Folk Continuum
- Assimilation
- Authenticity
- Bimusicality
- Body and Embodiment
- Cantometrics
- Change and Transformation
- Classification, Vernacular and Ethnic
- Composition
- Development
- Diffusion
- Ecomusicology
- Emic/Etic
- Endangered Musics
- Ethnicity, Music and
- Ethnopoetics
- Ethnotheory
- Exposition
- Fieldwork
- Folklore
- Form: Formal Structures of Music Composition
- Function and Functionalism
- Gender Studies and Music
- Habitus
- Harmony
- Hermeneutics, Music and
- Iconography, Music and
- Imagination
- Individual Profiles
- Intellectual Property
- Invented Tradition
- Laboratory Site and Techniques
- Language Renewal, Music and
- Language, Music and
- Maqām
- Merriam’s Model
- Modes and Scales
- Movement
- Multipart Music
- Music, Definitions of
- Narrative, in Musical Form and Performance
- Network Systems Analysis
- Notation
- Oral History
- Organology
- Orientalism
- Origins of Music
- Performance Practice
- Performance Studies
- Phenomenology
- Philosophy and Music
- Pitch and Tuning Systems
- Poetry and Music
- Politics and Music
- Postmodernism
- Proverbs and Music
- Psychology, Music and
- Queer Theory
- Reception
- Repertoire
- Representation
- Rhythm and Meter
- Ritual
- Schizophonia
- Semiotics
- Sound Ideal
- Soundscapes
- Space and Place
- Speech Tone
- Spoken Word
- Style and Technique
- Subculture
- Symbolic Associations
- Symbolism
- Technoculture
- Technology
- Textual Studies
- Texture, Musical
- Theory, Music
- Timbral Analysis
- Time
- Transcription
- Translation
- Tune Families
- Urbanization (Urbanism)
- Virtual Performance
- Vocables, Singing
- Zoomusicology
- Types of Music
- Art Music
- Avant-Garde Music
- Ballads
- Band Music
- Chant
- Children’s Music
- Choral Music
- Classical Music
- Commercial Music
- Country Music
- Dance
- Drinking Songs
- Epics, Music and; Epic Song
- Film Music
- Folk Music
- Funeral Music
- Humor
- Hymns
- Lament
- Liturgical Music
- Love Songs
- Lullabies
- Multipart Music
- Popular Music, as a Movement
- Praise Song
- Protest Music
- Rural Space and the Rural Imaginary
- Shamanism, Music and
- Street Music
- Theatre, Music as
- Therapy
- Trance
- Underground Music
- Urban (Urbanism)
- Weddings
- Work Song
- Genres, Regionally Generated Style Types of Wide Circulation
- Afrobeat
- Ambient
- Andean Folk
- Arabic Music
- Ballet
- Ballroom
- Bhangra
- Bluegrass
- Blues
- Bollywood
- Cajun Music
- Candomblé
- Celtic Music
- Country and Western
- Darkwave
- Disco
- Electronic Music
- Emo
- Europop
- Fado
- Fusion
- Gospel Music
- Goth
- Heavy Metal
- Highlife
- Jazz as Genre
- Karaoke
- Klezmer
- Latin Music
- Marching Band
- Mariachi
- Musicals
- Muzak
- New Age Music
- Opera
- Rock
- Romani Music
- Soul Music
- Western Art Music
- World Beat
- World Music
- Genres, Forms, and Rhythms
- Anasheed
- Arabesk
- Axé Music
- Bachata
- Ballad Opera
- Ballads
- Banda
- Bossa Nova
- Capoeira
- Choro
- Corrido
- Cumbia
- Dubstep
- Fado
- Flamenco
- Ghazal
- Hip-Hop
- Jo-Ha-Kyu
- Kizomba
- Maqām
- Merengue
- Musicals
- Muwashah
- Nueva Canción
- Polka
- Qawwali
- Ragtime
- Rap
- Reggae
- Reguetón
- Rhythm ’n’ Blues
- Rock
- Rumba
- Salsa
- Samba
- Semba Music and Dance
- Ska
- Soca
- Soul Music
- Tango
- Waltz
- Zydeco
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