Sunday, August 31, 2008

Music styles - Types, names, search terms

I can't count the number of times I was looking for a particular type of music but didn't know what it was. This is a nice list of music styles that comes in handy during searches on youtube and identifying music for sorting and collections.
clipped from websound.ru

Music styles

On this page you can see a tree-like structure of music
styles with musical examples for each style.

WebSound.ru Home
Alternative
Brit Pop
Shoegazer
Ambient
Industrial Ambient
Dark Ambient/Noise, Dark Ambient
Isolationism
Drone Ambient
Rithual Ambient
Blues
Acoustic Blues
Blues Rock
Spiritual Blues
Christian Blues
Classical
Medieval
Piano
Strings
Country
Bluegrass
New Grass
Spiritual Country
Christian Country
Western Swing
Electronic
Ambient
Abstract
Deep
Dsp
Experimental
Psychedelic
Pulsating
Dance
Club
Euro Dance
Italo-Euro Dance
Hard Dance
Electro Freestyle
Electronica
Progressive Electronica
Classic Electronica
Symphonic Electronica
House
Deep House
Hard House
Latin House
Garage
Jazzy house
Acid house
Gipsy house
Dream house
Trance house
IDM (Intelligent Dance Music)
Hard IDM
Soft IDM
Hardcore
Newstyle
Happy Hardcore
Techno
Acid
4-On-The-Floor
Tech-Tribal
Kanzleramtish Techno
Trance
Goa
Hard Trance
Progressive Trance
Psychedelic trance
Gothic
Gothic Rock
Proto Gothic Rock (Postpunk)
Gothic Rock (early)
Gothic Rock (modern)
Industrial
Jazz
Latin
Metal
Rock
Urban
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