| Style | Description |
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| Dabka (Dabke) | Dabke (also transliterated as debke, dabka, and dabkeh) is the traditional folk dance of the Levant, going back generations, and is also the national dance of Lebanon, Jordon, Syria and Palestine. |
| Dadra | Dadra is a light classical vocal form in Hindustani classical music, mostly performed in Agra and in Bundelkhand region. It is usually accompanied by a tala of 6 or 8 beats, or any light tala. |
| Daina | Latvian sung poetry |
| Daino | Lithuanian traditional music |
| Dance (musical form) | Dance as a musical form is a smaller musical composition intended for the presentation of dance. It can be used as an accompaniment for actual dance, but its main purpose is music as such. |
| Dance music | Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded dance music. |
| Dance-pop | Dance-pop is a subgenre of pop music that evolved from disco, circa the early 1980s, that combines dance beats with a pop song structure. |
| Dance-punk | Dance-punk (also known as disco-punk or punk-funk) is a music genre.The style was championed by rock- and punk-oriented bands such as Liars and Radio 4, as well as dance-oriented acts such as Out Hud. |
| Dancehall | Dancehall is a type of Jamaican popular music which developed in the late 1970s, with exponents such as Yellowman and Shabba Ranks. It is also known as bashment. |
| Dangdut | Dangdut is a genre of Indonesian popular music that is partly derived from Arabic, Indian, and Malay folk music. It developed beginning in the 1970s among working class Muslim youth, but especially since the late 1990s has reached a broader following in Indonesia. |
| Danube New Wave | mixture of Viennese schrammelmusik and American blues and rock and roll |
| Danza | Danza is a musical genre native to Puerto Rico, which was heavily influenced by the French contra dance and the Cuban danzón. It is sometimes called "Puerto Rico's classical music". |
| Dark ambient | Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music which emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of new synthesizer and sampling technology in the electronic music genre and other technical advances in music. Dark ambient is a very diverse genre; it is often closely linked with industrial music, noise, ethereal wave, and sometimes even black metal, yet can be free from any derivatives and connections to other genres or styles. |
| Dark cabaret | Dark cabaret is a music genre that blends the aesthetics of the decadent, risqué German Weimar-era cabarets and 1920s burlesque and vaudeville shows with the morbid, gloomy stylings of post-1970s-goth culture, gothic rock, punk, deathrock, and darkwave music. |
| Dark metal | Dark metal is a subjective term used to describe metal bands from various genres that have combined traits from gothic metal, doom metal, black metal as well as some symphonic elements, synthesizer use, acoustic guitar experimentation and/or operatic female vocals. |
| Darkwave | Dark Wave, also written as Darkwave, is an umbrella term which refers to a movement that began in the late 1970s, coinciding with the popularity of New Wave and Post-punk music. |
| De dragoste | De dragoste are Romanian popular love songs and poetic. More specific De dragoste is a special musical category played in the south of Walachia, in the Danube Plain. |
| Deathcore | Deathcore is an amalgamation of three musical styles: hardcore, death metal and metalcore. |
| Death/Doom | Death/Doom is an extreme metal heavy metal subgenre. It is a fusion genre, and is typically characterised by a combination of the slow tempos and pessimistic or melancholic mood of doom metal with the gruff vocal style and double kick drumming of death metal. |
| Deathgrind | a fusion between death metal and grindcore |
| Death industrial | Death industrial is a music genre that can be described as having much of the same source sounds as power electronics, but used to create a deep atmospheric sound. It often features a more flowing rhythm and deeper, less abrasive sound than power electronics. |
| Death metal | Death metal is an extreme heavy metal subgenre. It is typically characterized by the use of heavily-distorted guitars, harsh vocals that are low-pitched and/or growled, morbid lyrics, fast-paced rhythms and melodies, and unconventional song structures. |
| Death rock | Deathrock is a term used to identify a subgenre of punk rock and Goth which incorporates elements of horror and spooky atmospheres within a Goth-Punk style and first emerged most prominently in the West Coast of the United States and London during the late 1970s and early 1980s. |
| Deboche | Brazilian fusion of electric frevo and ijexá |
| Deep house | Deep house is a style of house music which fuses elements of Chicago house, 80's soul, jazz-funk and Detroit techno. The Jazz influences of deep house are most frequently brought out by chords using more complex than simple triads (7ths, 9ths, 13ths, suspensions, alterations) which are held for many bars, which give the tracks a slightly dissonant feel. The use of vocals is also more common in deep house than in many other forms of house music. |
| Deep soul | Southern soul is the term applied to a particular type of deep soul music that emerged from the southern region of the United States. There were also southern-born artists who brought their influences to northern U.S. cities as well. |
| Delta blues | The Delta blues is one of the earliest styles of blues music. It originated in the Mississippi Delta, a region of the United States that stretches from Memphis, Tennessee in the north to Vicksburg, Mississippi in the south, the Mississippi River on the west to the Yazoo River on the east. The Mississippi Delta area is famous both for its fertile soil and its extreme poverty. |
| Dementia | relating to the style of music popularized by the Dr. Demento Show |
| Detroit blues | Detroit blues originated when Delta blues performers migrated north from the Mississippi Delta and Memphis, Tennessee to work in Detroit's industrial plants in the 1920s and 30s. |
| Detroit techno | Detroit techno is an early style of electronic music originating from Detroit suburbs in the mid-1980s. A distinguishing trait of Detroit techno is the use of analog synthesizers and early drum machines, notably the roland TR-909 for its production or, in later releases, the use of digital emulation to create the characteristic sounds of those machines. |
| Dhamar | an Indian style of music |
| Dhimotiká | traditional Greek songs |
| Dhrupad | Dhrupad is the oldest surviving style of music in the Hindustani musical tradition in India. Its name, from dhruva-pada, simply means "refrain", and today denotes both a form of poetry and a style of music in which the poetry is sung. |
| Dhun | A dhun is a light instrumental piece in the Hindustani classical music of North India. Although it may be played in a raga, or mode (often light ragas such as Khamaj), it is more freely interpreted and may incorporate foreign notes (vivadi). A dhun may be based on a folk tune or a religious, bhajan-type song, or even a filmi song. |
