| Style | Description |
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| Gaana | Gaana is a type of Tamil rap song. It is characterised as a fastbeat song, with less emphasis on meaning, sung at a celebration. Initially, this was very popular with coolies from Chennai to relax while doing stressful work. It gained further popularity when a few songs were used in Tamil cinema. |
| Gabber | Gabber, gabba or hardcore, is a style of electronic music and a subgenre of hardcore techno. "Gabber" literally means buddy or friend. |
| Gagaku | Gagaku (雅楽, literally "elegant music") is a type of Japanese classical music that has been performed at the Imperial court for several centuries. |
| Gaita | The Gaita is the name of a Venezuelan folk music from Maracaibo, Zulia state. According to Joan Corominas, it may come from gaits, the Gothic word for "goat", the skin generally used for the membrane of the furro. |
| Galant | In music, Galant was a term referring to a style, principally occurring in the third quarter of the 18th century, which featured a return to classical simplicity after the complexity of the late Baroque era. |
| Gamad | Malay-style ballad |
| Gambang kromong | popular, highly-evolved form of kroncong, originally adapted for the theater |
| Gamelan | A gamelan is a kind of musical ensemble of Indonesia typically featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums, and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings, and vocalists may also be included. |
| Gamelan angklung | Balinese gamelan played for cremations and festivals |
| Gamelan bebonangan | Gamelan bebonangan is a type of ensemble processional music that is native to the island of Bali. This form of gamelan uses a 7-tone scale and cymbals (called ceng-ceng) but no keys. |
| Gamelan Degung | Gamelan Degung is a Sundanese musical ensemble that utilises a subset of modified gamelan instruments with a particular mode of pelog scale. |
| Gamelan salendro | The gamelan salendro is a form of gamelan music found in Sunda, West Java, Indonesia. It is used to accompany wayang golek (rod puppet) performances and dances. It uses a similar ensemble as a small central Javanese gamelan, but has developed differently, and shows the more exuberant character. |
| Gamelan selunding | Gamelan selunding (also spelled selonding) is a sacred ensemble of gamelan music from Bali. The selunding ensemble is from Tenganan, a village in east Bali; the ensemble is rare. Selunding means "great" or "large." Selonding is also a musical instrument made of iron. |
| Gamelan semar pegulingan | Gamelan semar pegulingan is an old variety of the Balinese gamelan. Dating back from around the 17th century, the style is sweeter and more reserved than the more popular and progressive Gamelan Gong Kebyar. |
| Gandrung | Osing music performed at weddings and other celebrations |
| Gangsta Funk | Gangsta Funk, or G-funk, is a type of hip hop music that emerged from West Coast gangsta rap in the early 1990s. |
| Gangsta rap | Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip-hop music which developed during the late 1980s. 'Gangsta' is a corruption of the spelling of 'gangster'. |
| Gar | Tibetan classical music |
| Garage rock | Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. |
| Gavotte | The gavotte (also gavot or gavote) originated as a French folk dance, taking its name from the Gavot people of the Pays de Gap region of Dauphiné, where the dance originated. It is notated in 4/4 or 2/2 time and is of moderate tempo. |
| Gay | Afro-Trinidadian call and response work song |
| Gelugpa chanting | form of Tibetan Buddhist chanting, very austere and restrained |
| Gender wayang | Gamelan gender wayang is a style of gamelan music played on Bali, Indonesia. It is used for wayang, but also for other ceremonial purposes. |
| Gendhing | The gendhing (or gending) is a class of gendhing structures used in Javanese gamelan music. Gendhing can also used to refer to gamelan compositions in general. |
| Gharnati | Gharnati refers to a variety of Moroccan music originating in Andalusia. Its name is related, being derived from the Arabic name of the Spanish city of Granada. |
| Ghazal | vocal form originally Persian but since spread to Central Asia, Iran, Turkey and India |
| Ghazal-song | a modernized version of ghazal influenced by filmi |
| Ghetto house | Ghetto house, booty house or Juke house is a type of Chicago House which started being recognised in its own right from around 1992 onwards. It features minimal 808 and 909 drum machine-driven tracks, and sometimes sexually explicit lyrics. |
| Ghettotech | Ghettotech is a form of electronic dance music originating from Detroit. It combines elements of Chicago's ghetto house with electro, hip hop, techno, and grafts the perceived raunch of Miami Bass as the vocal stamp of the music. |
| Glam metal | Glam metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that arose in the late 1970s - early 1980s in the United States. |
| Glam rock | Glam rock (also known as glitter rock), is a style of rock music, which initially surfaced in the post-hippie early 1970s. |
| Glitch | Glitch (also known as clicks and cuts from a representative compilation series by the German record label Mille Plateaux) is a genre of electronic music that became popular in the late 1990s with the increasing use of digital signal processing, particularly on computers. |
| Gnawa | Gnawa or Gnaoua refers to a style of Moroccan music with sub-Saharan Africa origins or influence. |
| Go go | Go-go is a subgenre of funk which originated in the Washington, D.C. area during the mid- to late-1970s. |
| Goa trance | Goa Trance (sometimes referred to as Goa or by the number 604) is a form of electronic music that developed around the same time as Trance music became popular in Europe. |
| Gong-chime music | A gong chime is a generic term for a set of small, high-pitched bossed pot gongs. The gongs are ordinarily placed in order of pitch, placed upright with the boss upward on cords held in a low wooden frame, often in order of ascending pitch. The frames can be rectangular or circular (the latter are sometimes called "gong circles"), and may have one or two rows of gongs. They are played by one to four musicians, each using two padded sticks to strike them. They are an important instrument in a large number of Southeast Asian musical ensembles, such as Indonesian gamelan, Philippine kulintang, or Thai pi phat. |
| Goombay | Bahamanian percussion music |
| Gore grind | Gore grind or goregrind, is a subgenre of grindcore, which is related to music styles such as death metal, thrash metal, and crust punk. |
| Goshu ondo | a form of popularized Okinawan folk music |
| Gospel music | Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as (in terms of the varying music styles) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music. |
| Gothic metal | Gothic metal is a genre of heavy metal music that originated during the mid 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of doom-death, a fusion genre of doom metal and death metal. |
| Gothic rock | Gothic rock (sometimes called goth rock or simply goth) is a genre of rock music that originated during the late 1970s. Originally bands from the genre were referred to as positive-punk by the music press and had strong ties to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk styles. |
| Gregorian chant | Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song of the western Christian Church. |
| Grime is a sub-genre of urban music which first emerged in London in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, drum and bass, dancehall and hip hop. |
| Grindcore | Grindcore, often shortened to grind, is an evolution of crust punk, most commonly associated with death metal, a very different though similarly extreme style of music. |
| Groove metal | Groove metal, often associated with neo-thrash/post-thrash and power groove, is a term sometimes used to describe a derivative of thrash metal which took its current form during the early 1990s. |
| Group Sounds | Group Sounds is a genre of Japanese rock music that was popular in the mid to late 1960s. The most well known bands of that era were The Tigers, The Tempters, The Spiders, The Golden Cups, The Mops, The Blue Comets, The Funnies, The Wild Ones, The Happenings Four and others. |
| Grunge | Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle Sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock that was created in the mid-1980s by bands from the American state of Washington, particularly in the Seattle area. |
| Grupera | Grupera (or onda grupera) is a genre of southern Mexican folk music. It is influenced by the styles of cumbia, norteño, and ranchera, and became popular in the 1980s, especially in rural areas. |
| Guitarra baiana | from Pernambuco, Brazil, a style of playing frevo using electric guitars |
| Gumbe | Gumbe is a style of music from Guinea-Bissau. Gumbe is a specific genre, though the same term also refers to any music of the country. True gumbe is a fusion of several Bissauan folk traditions. Gumbe is the genre most closely associated with Guinea-Bissauan music worldwide. |
| Gunchei | Gunchei is a type of Garifuna dance in which the men take turns dancing with each woman. "Gunchei" can also refer to the music that is played while the dancers are dancing. |
| Gunka | military marches with Japanese influences, created during the Meiji Restoration |
| Guoyue | Guoyue (国乐; literally "national music") is a modernized form of Chinese traditional music written or adapted for some form of grand presentation, usually through an orchestra. It was created during the mid-20th century and is frequently broadcasted on radio and television in the People's Republic of China. |
| Gwo ka | Gwo ka is both a family of hand drums and the music created with them, which is a major part of Guadeloupan folk music. |
| Gwo ka moderne | A modernized and popularized form of gwo ka is well-known on the islands; it is known as gwo ka moderne. |
| Gypsy jazz | Gypsy jazz (also known as "Gypsy Swing") is an idiom sometimes said to have been started by guitarist Django Reinhardt in the 1930s. Because its origins are largely in France it is often called by the French name, "Jazz manouche," or alternatively, "manouche jazz," even in English language sources. |
| Gypsy punk | Gypsy punk is the term used to describe a hybrid musical genre that crosses traditional Roma music with punk rock and other brands of rebel music. The term first was coined by musician Eugene Hütz, when describing his band Gogol Bordello, to the New York City weekly newspaper The Village Voice. |
| Gyu ke | Gyu ke is a form of Tibetan Tantric chanting. |
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