| Style | Description |
|---|
| La la | Louisianan Creole music |
| Laïkó | Laïkó was a style of popular music in Greece during the 1950s and 1960s. |
| Lam saravane | Lam Saravene is a popular Laotian music genre with alternating rhythms. Typically uses the khen instrument. |
| Lambada | Bolivian and Brazilian dance music which arose from sayas and became internationally popular in the 1980s |
| Langgam jawa | Langgam jawa is a regional form of Indonesian kroncong music most often associated with the city of Surakarta (solo). As is the case with traditional kroncong music, langgam jawa utilizes a variety of non-native instruments, such as the flute, guitar, ukulele, cello and violin. |
| Latin American music | Latin American music, sometimes simply called Latin music, includes the music of all countries in Latin America and comes in many varieties, from the simple, rural conjunto music of northern Mexico to the sophisticated habanera of Cuba, from the symphonies of Heitor Villa-Lobos to the simple and moving Andean flute. |
| Latin jazz | Latin jazz is the general term given to music that combines rhythms from African and Latin American countries with jazz and classical harmonies from Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and United States. |
| Lhamo | form of Tibetan opera |
| Light Music | Light music is a generic term applied to a mainly British musical style of "light" orchestral music, which began post-World War I and had its heyday during the mid-20th century, although arguably lasts to the present day. The style is also known as mood music or concert music. |
| Llanera | Venezuelan music |
| Llanto | a flamenco-influenced genre of Panamanian folk music |
| Lo-pop | Pop or Disco with extreme cheap touch |
| Loki djili | traditional Hungarian Gypsy songs |
| Long-song | The Long song (Mongolian: Уртын дуу, Urtyn duu) is a central element of the traditional Music of Mongolia. This genre is not called "Long song" because the songs are long (even if some of them are), but because each syllable of text is extended for a long duration. |
| Louisiana blues | The Louisiana blues is a type of blues music that is characterized by plodding rhythms that make the sound dark and tense. |
| Lounge music | Lounge music is a retroactive description of music popular in the 1950s and 1960s encompassing such genres as exotica and space age pop. |
| Lovers rock | Lovers rock is a style of reggae music noted for its romantic sound and content. The style originated in South London in the mid 1970s and came to be known as 'Lovers rock' after Dennis Lascelles Harris' New Cross record label of the same name. |
| Lowercase music | Originally coined by minimal artist Steve Roden, lowercase is an extreme form of ambient minimalism in which very quiet sounds bookend long stretches of silence. Roden started the movement with an album entitled Forms of Paper, in which he made recordings of himself handling paper in various ways. |
| Lu | unaccompanied Tibetan folk music |
| Luk grung | Luk Grung or Luk Krung (which means "Child of the City"; see Luk kreung) is a genre of Thai popular music. It is a more polished, urban style, compared to its folk music counterpart, luk thung. |
| Lullaby | A lullaby is a soothing song, usually sung to children before they go to sleep, but they can also be sung to insomniac teenagers and adults as well to help them sleep. |
| Lundu | The Lundu, originally a dance done by African slaves in Brazil, also gained popularity among the white middle class and upper crust and became Brazil's first national dance. A flirtatious couple dance, usually accompanied by a guitar, but sometimes a thumb piano or drums. |
