List of styles of music: S-Z
- Sygyt - type of xoomii (Tuvan throat singing), likened to the sound of whistling
- Symphonic black metal
- Symphonic metal
- Symphonic poem
- Symphonic rock
- Symphony
- Symphusion
- Synthpop
- Synthpunk
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T
- Taarab
- Tai tu - Vietnamese chamber music
- Taiwanese pop - early Taiwanese pop music influenced by enka and popular with older listeners
- Tala - a rhythmic pattern in Indian classical music
- Tambu
- Tamburitza
- Tamil Christian keerthanai - Christian devotional lyrics in Tamil
- Táncház - Hungarian dance music
- Tango - Argentinian dance music that became internationally popular in the 1920s
- Tanguk - a form of Korean court music that includes elements of Chinese music
- Talempong - a distinct Minangkabau gamelan music
- Tappa
- Tarana - form of vocal music from northern India using highly rhythmic nonsense syllables
- Tarantella
- Taranto
- Tech house
- Technical death metal
- Techno
- Techno metal
- Techno Rock
- Technoid
- Tembang sunda - Sundanese sung free verse poetry
- Teen pop
- Tejano music or "Tex-Mex", sometimes confused with norteño
- Terrorcore
- Texas blues
- Thrashcore
- Thrash metal
- Thresher
- Thumri - a type of popular Hindustani vocal music
- Tibetan pop - pop music heavily influenced by Chinese forms, emerging in the 1980s
- Tientos
- Thillana - form of vocal music from South India using highly rhythmic nonsense syllables
- Timbila - form of folk music in Mozambique
- Tin Pan Alley
- Tinga
- Tinku - traditional music and dance from Potosi Bolivia
- Toadas - traditional music and dance from Brazil
- Togaku
- Toeshey - Tibetan dance music
- T'ong guitar - acoustic guitar pop music of Korea
- Traditional pop music
- Trallalero - Genoese urban songs
- Trance
- Travesty
- Tribal house
- Trip-hop
- Trip rock
- Triple R
- Trikitixa - Basque accordion music
- Trop Rock
- Tropicalia
- Truck-driving country
- Tumba
- Turbo-folk - aggressive form of modernized Serbian music
- Turntablism
- Tuvan throat-singing
- Twee pop
- Twist (also a dance style, early 1960s)
- Two tone (second wave of ska)
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U
- UK garage
- UK pub rock
- Unblack metal (also know as Christian black metal)
- Underground music
- Unknown
- Urban Cowboy
- Urban Folk
- Urban jazz
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V
- Vallenato - accordion-based Colombian folk music
- Vaudeville
- Verbunkos - Hungarian folk music
- Verismo
- Video game music - Melodic music as defined by its media.
- Viking metal
- Villanella - 16th century Neapolitan songs
- Virelais
- Visual Kei
- Vocal house
- Vocal jazz
- Volksmusik
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W
- Waila (chicken scratch) - a Tohono O'odham fusion of polka, norteño and Native American music
- Waltz
- Warabe uta
- Wassoulou
- Were music
- West Coast pop
- Western blues
- Western swing
- White Metal
- Wizard Rock
- Women's music or womyn's music, wimmin's music--1970s lesbian/feminist
- Wong shadow - 1960s Thai pop music
- Work song
- Wood Sounds of organic synthesis recorded on organic medium such as tape.
- Worldbeat
- World music
- World fusion music
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X
- Xoomii (khoomii, hoomii) - a type of Tuvan throat singing
- Xhosa music
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Y
- Yang - form of Tibetan Buddhist chanting
- Yé-yé
- Yorubeat Funk and Afrobeat influenced
- Yo-pop
- Yodeling
- Yukar
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Z
- Zajal
- Zapin - derived from ancient Arabic music, zapin is popular throughout Malaysia
- Zarzuela - a form of Spanish operetta
- Zeuhl
- Ziglibithy
- Zolo - characterized by hyper jerky rhythms and cacophonous/ harmonious bleeps and boings
- Zouglou
- Zouk - Antillean dance music
- Zouk chouv
- Zouklove
- Zulu music
- Zydeco - popular Louisianan Creole music
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