| Style | Description |
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| Fado | Fado (translated as destiny or fate) is a music genre which can be traced from the 1820s in Portugal, but probably with much earlier origins. It is characterized by mournful tunes and lyrics, often about the sea or the life of the poor. |
| Fag | Music from Fetcham, usually involving lots of banjo riffs, 'Fag Music' |
| Falak | Tajik folk music |
| fandango | Fandango is a style of folk and flamenco music and dance. It arose as a dance of courtship in Andalusia in southern Spain early in the 18th century. |
| Farruca | Farruca is a form of Flamenco music, probably originating in the Galicia region of north-western Spain. It is a light form typical of cante chico, and is traditionally danced only by men. It is seldom sung. |
| Filk | Filk is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction/fantasy fandom, active since the early 1950s if concentrated primarily since the mid-1970s. |
| Film scores | A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film. |
| Filmi | Filmi music is Indian popular music as written and performed for Indian cinema. Music directors make up the main body of composers; the songs are performed by playback singers. |
| Filmi-ghazal | Filmi-ghazal is a type of Indian filmi music based on Hindustani ghazal poetry. |
| Fjatpangarri | Aboriginal Australian music local to Yirrbala |
| Flamenco | Flamenco is a Spanish musical genre with strong, rhythmic undertones and is often accompanied with a similarly impassioned style of dance characterized by its powerful yet graceful execution, as well as its intricate hand and footwork. |
| Flamenco | Rumba Flamenco Rumba (also called Rumba Flamenca, Rumba Gitana, Gypsy Rumba or Spanish Rumba) is a style of Flamenco music from Spain. Its style derives from the influence of Afro-Cuban Rumba brought back from Cuba to Spain in the 19th century. |
| Folk metal | Folk metal is a diverse collection of music, encompassing a wide variety of different styles and approaches. As the name suggests, the one common ground between folk metal bands is a shared interest in fusing heavy metal music with elements of folk music. |
| Folk music | It could mean Traditional music. Folk music can also describe a particular kind of popular music which is based on traditional music. |
| Folk punk | Folk punk, in its most general sense, is a genre (or set of genres) of music that combines elements of folk and punk rock music. The term can also describe the people, culture, etc. that surround such a genre. |
| Folk rock | Folk rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music. |
| Folktronica | Folktronica or Electrofolk is a genre of music comprised of varying elements of folk music and electronica. |
| Forró | Forró is a kind of popular Northeastern Brazilian dance, as well as a word used to denote the different genres of music which accompanies the dance. |
| Foxcore | Foxcore is a word coined by Thurston Moore to describe a style of alternative rock. It is associated with riot grrrl, because the bands are all-girl, female-fronted, or are made up mainly of females. |
| Franco-country | Franco-country is a musical style originating from French Canada. It is characterised mainly by the rhythms and styles of American country music but with the twangy Québécois Jouale accent. Sometimes the songs are sung in French, but not always. |
| Freakbeat | Freakbeat is a rock music genre that peaked approximately between 1966 and 1967. |
| Freak folk | Freak folk is a genre of folk music associated with contemporary artists like Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Animal Collective, Kimya Dawson, and with '60s artists like Holy Modal Rounders, The Incredible String Band, Tyrannosaurus Rex, The Godz and The Fugs. It is related to but distinct from psych folk. |
| Free improvisation | Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the taste or inclination of the musician(s) involved; in many cases the musicians make an active effort to avoiding overt references to recognizable musical genres. The term is somewhat paradoxical, since it can be considered both as a technique (employed by any musician who wishes to disregard rigid genres and forms) and as a recognizable genre in its own right. |
| Free jazz | Free jazz is a movement of jazz music developed in the 1950s and 1960s by artists such as Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Bill Dixon, and Sun Ra. |
| Freestyle house | Freestyle or Latin Freestyle, also called Latin Hip Hop in its early years, is a form of electronic music that is heavily influenced by Latin American culture. Performers such as Safire,Information Society, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, TKA, George Lamond, and Expose are notable performers of this genre. |
| Freetekno | Freetekno is the name of a cultural movement that is present in both Europe and North America. |
| Frevo | Frevo describes is a wide range of musical styles originating from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, all of which are traditionally associated with Brazilian Carnival. |
| Fricote | dance music from Salvador, Brazil |
| F-Step | variant of hardcore jungle with simultaneous, overlapping beats |
| Fuji | Fuji is a popular Nigerian musical genre. It arose from the improvisation Ajisari/were music tradition, which is a kind of Muslim music performed to wake believers before dawn during the Ramadan fasting season. Were music/Ajisari itself was made popular by the likes of Alhaji Dauda Epo-Akara, the deceased Ibadan-based "awurebe" founder and Ganiyu Kuti or Gani Irefin. |
| Fulia | Fulía is a typical musical style of the Venezuelan coast, it is sung or recited, and is interpreted with: cuatro, guitar, mandolin, maracas and a square drum in the east of Venezuela, and the tambora of velorio or tamborita in the central region. |
| Funaná | The Funaná is a mixed Portuguese and African music and dance from Santiago, Cape Verde. It is said that the lower part of the body movement is African, and the upper part Portuguese. |
| Funeral doom | Funeral doom is a subgenre of doom metal and an outgrowth of death/doom. |
| Funk | Funk is an American musical style that originated in the mid- to late-1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. |
| Funkcore | Funkcore is a fusion of hardcore punk and funk created in the 1980s. Hard, loud and fast guitars are featured, but unlike in most rock music, it does not overpower the bass, which is heavy and driving. |
| Funk metal | Funk metal is a fusion genre of music which emerged in the 1980s. It typically incorporates elements of funk and heavy metal. Funk rock |
| Funky breaks | a type of breaks electronic music |
| Funky highlife | fusion of funk and Ghanaian highlife |
| Furniture music | Furniture music, or in French musique d’ameublement (sometimes more literally translated as furnishing music), is background music originally played by live performers. The term was coined by Erik Satie in 1917. |
| Fusion bhangra | bhangra combined with rock and roll, reggae, hip hop, ragga and funk |
| Fusion jazz | Jazz fusion (or "jazz-rock fusion" or "fusion") is a musical genre that merges elements of jazz with other styles of music, particularly pop, rock, folk, reggae, funk, metal, country, R&B, hip hop, electronic music and world music. Fusion albums — even those that are made by the same artist — often include a variety of these musical styles. |
| Future jazz | See Nu jazz |
| Futurepop | Futurepop is an electronic dance music genre, incorporating influences from synthpop (such as song structure and vocal style), uplifting trance (grandiose and arpeggiated synthesizer melodies), and EBM. The term was coined by Ronan Harris (of VNV Nation) and Stephan Groth (of Apoptygma Berzerk) while attempting to describe the style of music their bands produced. |
