| Style | Description |
|---|---|
| Carol | A carol is a festive song, generally religious but not necessarily connected with church worship, and often with a dance-like or popular character. Today the carol is represented almost exclusively by the Christmas carol, the Advent carol, and to a much lesser extent by the Easter carol, however despite their present association with religion, this has not always been the case. |
| Cartageneras | Cartageneras are a flamenco palo belonging to the category of the Cantes de las minas (in English, songs of the mines) or cantes minero-levantinos (eastern miner songs). As the rest of the songs in this category, it derives from older folkloric fandango styles. The origin of this particular style is attributed to traditional fandango from the miner area of Cartagena in the province of Murcia, in southern Spain. |
| Cavacha | Cavacha is a type of rhythm found in the popular music of Zaire and Kenya. It is a fast-paced rhythm typically played on a drum kit, often with the snare drum or hi hat. Zairean bands such as Zaiko Langa Langa and Orchestra Shama Shama popularized this form of rhythm in the 1960s and 1970s. |
| Celempungan | Celempungan is a Sundanese musical genre that includes several musical instruments such as Kacapi, Kendang, Goong/Gong, and Suling or Rebab (optional), and Juru Kawih (singer). kendang, the drum, controls the tempo of the ensemble and reinforces the meter. |
| Cello rock | Cello metal or Cello rock are subgenres of rock music characterized by the use of cellos (as well as sometimes also other bowed string instruments such as the violin and viola) as primary instruments, alongside or in place of more traditional rock instruments such as electric guitars, electric bass guitar, and drum set. |
| Celtic | Celtic music is a term utilized by artists, record companies, music stores and music magazines to describe a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic peoples of Northern Europe. |
| Celtic fusion | Celtic fusion is an umbrella term for modern music which incorporates traditional Celtic influences, or Celtic music which incorporates modern music. |
| Celtic punk | Celtic punk (also known as Paddybeat, Celtcore, Jig punk, or Rock and Reel) is a music genre typically associated with Irish punks or punks from the Irish diaspora; although other Celtic nationalities, such as Scottish, Manx and Welsh people are also represented. |
| Celtic rock | Celtic rock is a genre of folk rock which incorporates Celtic music, instrumentation and themes. The style is seen as the hybrid of traditional Irish music with new musical forms.Some of the traditional instruments used in Celtic rock include the tin whistle, uilleann pipes, fiddle, bodhrán, accordion, concertina, melodeon, and bagpipes. It is also noted that many American Celtic rock bands also have members that have no Irish heritage and sing in English, not Gaelic, but also draw their influences from other musical sources. |
| Cha-cha-cha | The cha-cha-chá is a style of Cuban dance music. |
| Chamamé | Chamamé is a folk music genre from the Argentine Mesopotamia ("Litoral") and Rio Grande do Sul, in the south of Brazil. |
| Chamber jazz | Chamber jazz is a genre of jazz based around small, acoustic-based ensembles where group interplay is important. It is influenced aesthetically by musical neoclassicism and is often influenced by classical forms of non-Western music. |
| Chamber music | Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any "art music" that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part. The word "chamber" signifies that the music can be performed in a small room, often in a private salon with an intimate atmosphere. However, it usually does not include, by definition, solo instrument performances. |
| Champeta | Champeta is a genre of music from Colombia with several variant styles. It combines urban sounds and Central and West Africa and Latin beats. Its origin is the city of Cartagena. The music has been influenced by soukous, compas and ragga and is often categorized as Tropical. |
| Chalga | Chalga (Чалга) is a form of Bulgarian music drawing from Balkan folk traditions and incorporating a blend of Arabic, Turkish, Greek, and Roma (Gypsy) influences, as well as motifs from Balkan traditional music, flamenco and klezmer music. It is known for repeating musical themes and dance rhythms. Many chalga hits were Greek or Turkish, covered by Bulgarian singers, often in more complex musical arrangements. |
| Changuí | Changüí is a style of Cuban music which originated in the early 19th century in the eastern region of Guantánamo Province. It arose in the sugar cane refineries and in the rural communities populated by slaves. |
| Chanson | Chanson (French for "song") refers to any song with French words, but more specifically classic, lyric-driven French songs, European songs in the cabaret style, or a diverse range of songs interpreted in this style. |
| Charanga | Charanga is a genre of Cuban dance music popular (not the musical instrument "charango") in the 1940s and consisting of heavily son influenced material performed on European instruments such as violin and flute by a Charanga orchestra. (Aviva 2004, p.199) |
| Charanga-vallenato | 1980s mixture of salsa, charanga and vallenata |
Charikawi | The charikawi is a traditional mimed dance of the Garifuna, in which a hunter encounters a cave man and a cow. The word may also refer to the music for such a dance. |
| Chastushka | Chastushka (Russian: часту́шка), a type of traditional Russian poetry, is a single quatrain in trochaic tetrameter with an abab, abcb or (less frequently) aabb rhyme scheme. Usually humorous, satirical, or ironic in nature, chastushkas are often put to music as well, usually with balalaika or accordion accompaniment. The rigid, short structure (and, to a lesser degree, the type of humor used) parallels limericks in British culture. |
| Chau van | Vietnamese trance music |
| Chemical breaks | See Big beat |
| Chicago house | Chicago house is the earliest style of house music. House music originated in North America at a Chicago, USA, nightclub called The Warehouse. While the origins of the name "house music" are unclear, the most popular belief is that the term "house music" can be traced to the name of that club. DJ Frankie Knuckles originally popularized house music while working at The Warehouse. |
| Chicago jazz | See Dixieland jazz |
| Chicken scratch | Chicken scratch (also known as waila music) is a kind of dance music developed by the Tohono O'odham people. The genre evolved out of acoustic fiddle bands in southern Arizona, in the Sonoran desert. |
| Chimurenga | 'Chimurenga' refers to a style of music first branded by Thomas Mapfumo, who mixed African rhythmic patterns and instruments such as Mbira (thumb piano), drums, gourd rattles with Western styles (e-guitar) in songs that achieved wide popularity among the protest movement against white minority rule. Today the term Chimurenga music refers to popular Shona music from Zimbabwe. |
| Chinese rock | Chinese Rock (中国摇滚, also 中国摇滚音乐 "Chinese shaking and rolling music") or C-Rock is an expression of attitude and lifestyle, which sees no borders or ethnic identity. It is music with modern orchestration (with or without traditional Chinese musical instruments). |
| Chip music | A chiptune, or chip music, is music written in sound formats where all the sounds are synthesized in realtime by a computer or video game console sound chip, instead of using sample-based synthesis. |
| Chongak | Jeongak (literally "proper music") is a category of Korean music which is considered classical. It may be considered distinct from minsogak which is folk music. The category has traditionally been associated with the upper classes. |
| Chouval bwa | Chouval bwa features percussion, bamboo flute, accordion, and wax-paper/comb-type kazoo. The music originated among rural Martinicans. Since its development, chouval bwa has diversified into genres like zouk chouv, which includes electric instrumentation and has been popularized by Claude Germany, Tumpak, Dede Saint-Prix, and Pakatak. |
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