| Style | Description |
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| Dialect rock | Dialect rock is rock music produced in the Swiss German as opposed to standard German or English. |
| Digital hardcore | Digital hardcore is a music genre or musical style that, in basic terms, fuses elements of hardcore punk with electronic music. It developed in Germany during the early 1990s. |
| Din Dain | Ambient blues trance |
| Dirge | A dirge is a somber song expressing mourning or grief, such as would be appropriate for performance at a funeral. |
| Dirty rap | Dirty rap, also known as booty rap, porn rap, or sex rap, is a subgenre of hip hop music that contains lyrical content revolving mainly around sex and sexual subjects. The lyrics are overtly sexually explicit and graphic, often to the point of either cartoonishness or extreme offensiveness. Musically, dirty rap often contains a distinctly bass-driven sound, as the subgenre actually arose from the popular Miami bass rap scene. |
| Dirty South (or Southern rap) | Southern hip hop is a form of American hip hop music that emerged in the late-1990s as a popular force from cities such as Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Memphis, New Orleans, Miami, Baton Rouge. |
| Disco | Disco is a genre of dance-oriented pop music. Disco songs usually have soaring, often reverberated vocals over a steady four-on-the-floor beat, an eighth note (quaver) or sixteenth note (semi-quaver) hi-hat pattern with an open hi-hat on the off-beat, and a prominent, syncopated electric bass line. |
| Disco house | Disco house is a late 1990s form of house music, part of the 1990s and 2000s European dance music scene and the latest form of Euro disco. The genre is also known as " French house", "Neu-disco" (new disco) "French touch", "filter house" or "tekfunk". The music is notable for the "filter effect" used by artists such as Daft Punk, and sometimes uses vocal samples. |
| Disco polo | Disco polo is a musical genre unique and native to Poland, which exists in its present form since the early 1990s. |
| Dixieland jazz | Dixieland music is a style of jazz which developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century, and was spread to Chicago and New York City by New Orleans bands in the 1910s. Dixieland jazz combined brass band marches, French quadrilles, ragtime and blues with collective, polyphonic improvisation by trumpet (or cornet), trombone, and clarinet over a "rhythm section" of piano, guitar, banjo, drums, and a double bass or tuba. |
| Dodompa | Japanese tango |
| Doina | The Doina is a Romanian musical tune style, having its roots in the music-laments of the Romanian shepherds (Vlachs). It can be found in Romanian music, as well as in Klezmer music. |
| Dondang sayang | Dondang Sayang (Love Song or Dear Song) originated in Malacca (in Malaysia) sometime in the 16th century, influenced by tradicional Portuguese folk music. It is a traditional Malay form of entertainment where Baba and Nyonya singers exchange extemporaneous Malay Pantun (poetry), in a lighthearted and sometimes humorous style. |
| Donegal fiddle tradition | The Donegal fiddle tradition is a kind of Irish traditional music, based on a tradition, or set of coexisting traditions, at least 200 years old, of playing the fiddle in County Donegal, Ireland. |
| Dongjing | Dongjing music (洞经音乐 dongjing yin yue) or donjiang is a type of Chinese ritual music traditionally performed by the Nakhi people of Yunnan. |
| Doo wop | Doo-wop is a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music, which was started in the black community and became popular in the mid-1950s to the early 1960s in the United States. |
| Doom metal | Doom metal is a form of heavy metal that emerged as a recognized metal sub-genre in the early/mid-1980s. |
| Douche Metal | Metal made by knobheads. |
| Downtempo | Downtempo (or Downbeat) is a laid-back electronic music style similar to ambient music, but usually with a beat or groove unlike the beatless forms of Ambient music. |
| Dream pop | Dream pop is a type of alternative rock that originated in Britain in the early 1980s, when bands like Cocteau Twins, The Chameleons, The Passions, Dead Can Dance, Dif Juz, Lowlife and A.R. Kane (to whom the term has been attributed) began fusing post-punk experiments with bittersweet pop melodies into sensual, sonically-ambitious sounds capes. |
| Drill and bass | Drill 'n bass is a genre name coined by fans for a type of electronic music that emerged from drum 'n bass in the mid-1990s. Artists like Luke Vibert, Squarepusher, and most famously, Aphex Twin created the sound in 1995. |
| Drone doom | Drone doom, also called drone metal, is a subgenre of doom metal. It generally takes influences from ambient, minimalism, and noise. |
| Drone music | Drone music, also known as drone-based music, drone ambient or ambient drone, dronescape or dronology, and sometimes simply as drone, is a musical style that emphasizes the use of sustained sounds, notes, or tones-clusters – called drones. |
| Drum and bass (DNB) | Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated to d&b, DnB, dnb, d'n'b, drum n bass and drum & bass) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle which emerged in the early 1990s. |
| Dub | Dub is a form of Jamaican music, which evolved out of reggae in the 1960s. The dub sound consists predominantly of instrumental remixes of existing recordings and is achieved by significantly manipulating and reshaping the recordings, usually by removing the vocals from an existing music piece, emphasizing the drum and bass frequencies or 'riddim', adding extensive echo and reverb effects, and dubbing occasional snippets of lyrics from the original version. |
| Dubstep | Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music which has its roots in London's early 2000s UK garage scene. |
| Dunun | A Dunun (also known as dundun, doundoun, or djun-djun) is the generic name for a family of West African bass drums that developed alongside the djembe in the Mande drum ensemble. |
| Dunedin Sound | The southern New Zealand university city of Dunedin spawned a style of indie pop music in the early 1980s known as "The Dunedin Sound". Similar in many ways to the traditional indie pop sound, the Dunedin Sound uses "jingly jangly" guitaring, minimal bass lines and loose drumming. |
| Dutch jazz | Dutch jazz refers to the jazz music of the Netherlands. The Dutch traditionally have a vibrant jazz scene as shown by the North Sea Jazz Festival as well as other venues. |
| Dzoke | type of yang chanting |
