| Style | Description |
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| P-Funk | P-Funk is a shorthand term for the repertoire and performers associated with George Clinton and the Parliament-Funkadelic collective and the distinctive style of funk music they performed. The P-Funk groups had their heyday in the 1970s and continue to attract new fans thanks both to the legacy of samples they bequeathed to hip hop and the live shows that the bands continue to perform. |
| Pagan rock | Pagan rock is music created by (and in some cases for) adherents of one of the many Neopagan and occult traditions that emerged in the middle to late 20th century. |
| Pagode | Pagode is a Brazilian style of music which originated in the Rio de Janeiro region as a subgenre of Samba. Pagode originally meant a celebration with lots of food, music and dance. |
| Paisley Underground | Paisley Underground is a term used to describe a genre of rock music, based primarily in Los Angeles, California, which was at its most popular in the mid-1980s. (The coinage — a joke that stuck — is usually ascribed to Michael Quercio of the band The Three O'Clock.) |
| Palm wine | Palm-wine music (known as maringa in Sierra Leone) is a West African musical genre. It evolved among the Kru people of Sierra Leone and Liberia, who used Portuguese guitars brought by sailors, combining local melodies and rhythms with Trinidadian calypso. |
| Panambih | Panambih is metrical sung poetry and more modern version of the Tembang sunda of Indonesia. |
| Panchai baja | Panchai baja is a form of wedding; it is a civil or religious ceremony at which the beginning of a marriage is celebrated popular in Nepal and other Hindu cultures. Panchai baja is played exclusively by the Damai and is part of the rituals practiced. |
| Panchavadyam | Panchavadyam meaning an orchestra of 5 instruments originates from Kerala and is a temple associated art form. This is composed of 4 percussion instruments Timila, Maddalam, Edakka, Elathalam and a wind instrument Kompu. |
| Pansori | Pansori (also spelled p'ansori) is a genre of Korean music. It is a vocal and percussional music performed by one sorikkun (소리꾼; a singer) and one gosu (a drummer). The term pansori is derived from pan, meaning "a place where many people gather," and sori, meaning "sound." |
| Parranda | Parranda or Parranda de aguinaldo are musical sorts, from the coast zone of the states Aragua and Carabobo, in Venezuela, where the tambora (drum) becomes present as accompanying instrument, with an important Afro-Venezuelan influence. |
| Paranda | Garifuna music of Belize |
| Parang | Parang is a type of music with Caribbean and Latin American cultural influences. The word is derived from the Spanish word parranda, meaning 'merry-making' or 'a group of serenaders'. |
| Partido alto | Partido Alto refers to a type of samba with a number of particularities. In the world of samba subgenres and in samba reunions, partido alto songs (informally called partidos) can represent a time for improvisation and (humorous or not) disputes, besides a stronger sing along opportunity for the participants. |
| Pasillo | Pasillo (English: corridor) is a genre of indigenous Latin music. It is extremely popular in Ecuador, where it is the "national genre of music." Pasillo as a genre is also present in the mountainous regions of Colombia, Panama and Venezuela, to a lesser extent. |
| Pelimanni music | Finnish folk dance music |
| Petenera | The Petenera is a flamenco palo in a 12-beat metre, with strong beats distributed as follows: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. It is therefore identical with the 16th century Spanish dances zarabanda and the jácara. The lyrics are in 4-line stanzas. |
| Peyote Song | Peyote songs are a form of Native American music, now most often performed as part of the Native American Church. |
| Philadelphia soul | Philadelphia (or Philly) soul, sometimes called the Philadelphia Sound or Sweet Philly, is a style of soul music characterized by funk influences and lush instrumental arrangements, often featuring sweeping strings and piercing horns. |
| Piano blues | Piano blues refers to a variety of blues styles, sharing only the characteristic that they use the piano as the primary musical instrument. Boogie woogie is the best known kind of piano blues, though barrelhouse, swing, R&B, rock and roll and jazz are strongly influenced by early pianists who played the blues. |
| Piano rock | Piano rock, sometimes referred to as piano pop, is a term for a style of rock music that is based around the piano, and sometimes around piano-related instruments, such as the Fender Rhodes, the Wurlitzer electric piano, and keyboard-based synthesizers, rather than the guitar as is the case with traditional Rock. Jerry Lee Lewis first made it popular in the 50's. |
| Piedmont blues | The Piedmont blues (also known as Piedmont fingerstyle) is a type of blues music characterized by a unique fingerpicking method on the guitar in which a regular, alternating-thumb bass pattern supports a melody using treble strings. |
| Pinoy rock | Pinoy Rock, or Filipino Rock, is the brand of Rock music produced in the Philippines or by Filipinos. It has become as diverse as the Rock music genre itself, and bands adopting this style are now further classified under more specific genres or combinations of genres like Alternative Rock, Ethnic, Metal, New Wave, Pop Rock, Punk Rock, Reggae, Heavy Metal and Ska. |
| Pinpeat orchestra | The pinpeat orchestra or musical ensemble performs the ceremonial music of the former courts and temples of Cambodia. The orchestra consists of approximately nine or ten instruments, mainly wind and percussion (including several varieties of xylophone and drums), and accompanies court dances, masked plays, shadow plays, and religious ceremonies. |
| Piphat | A piphat is a kind of ensemble in the classical music of Thailand, which features wind and percussion instruments. It is considered the primary form of ensemble for the interpretation of the most sacred and "high-class" compositions of the Thai classical repertoire, including the Buddhist invocation entitled Satukan as well as the suites called phleng ruang. It is also used to accompany traditional Thai theatrical and dance forms including khon (masked dance-drama), lakhon (classical dance), and shadow puppet theater. |
| Pirekaus | traditional love songs of the Purépecha of Mexico |
| Pisiq | Greenlandic folk song |
| Pixiefunk | Pixiefunk is a fusion of funk, afrobeat, celtic balad, pop-rock, drum'n'bass and jungle. Usually it is performed live and free style. Origin: London |
| Piyyutim | A piyyut (plural piyyutim) is a Jewish liturgical poem, usually designated to be sung, chanted, or recited during religious services. Piyyutim have been written since Temple times. |
| Plachi | melancholic Russian folk songs |
| Plainchant | Broadly speaking, plainchant (or plainsong) is the name given to the body of traditional songs used in the liturgies of the Roman Catholic Church. The liturgies of the Eastern Orthodox Church, though in many ways similar, are generally not classified as plainsong, though the musical form is nearly as old as Christendom itself. Plainsong is also commonly used in the Anglican churches. |
| Plena | Plena is a folkloric genre native of Puerto Rico. Its creation was influenced by African and Spanish music. The music is related to similar music in Trinidad and Barbados. |
| Pleng phua cheewit | By the 1960s, Western rock was popular and Thai artists began imitating bands like Cliff Richard & the Shadows; this music was called wong shadow, and it soon evolved into a form of Thai pop called string. Among the groups that emerged from this period was The Impossibles. The '70s also saw Rewat Buddhinan beginning to use the Thai language in rock music as well as the rise of protest songs called pleng phua cheewit (songs for life). |
| Pleng Thai sakorn | Phleng Thai sakol is a genre of Thai classical music. It blends traditional Thai music elements with the instruments of Western classical music. Its most representative composer is Eua Sunthornsanan. |
| Poco-poco | Poco-poco means Indonesian modern music which fuses disco with eastern Indonesian dance music. |
| Polka | Polka is a fast, lively Central European dance, and also a genre of dance music. It originated in the middle of the 19th century in Bohemia, and is still a common genre of Czech and Slovakian folk music; it is common both in Europe and in the Americas. |
| Polo | Polo designates two forms of Venezuelan folk music. One that originates from Margarita Island and another one that is played in Coro, in the state of Falcón. In main lines, this genre is interpreted using cuatro, maracas, mandolin, guitar and voice. |
| Polonaise | The polonaise (Polish: polonez, chodzony; Italian: polacca) is a rather slow dance of Polish origin, in 3/4 time. Its name is French for "Polish." |
| Pols | The pols is a Norwegian folk dance, a fast version of the Nordic polska. |
| Pop folk | Pop-folk is a music-genre consisting of both pop music and folk music. |
| Pop melayu | Malay pop music with dangdut overlay |
| Pop mop | Mongolian pop music |
| Pop music | Pop music is an ample and imprecise category of modern music not defined by artistic considerations but by its potential audience or prospective market. Pop is music composed with deliberate intent to appeal to the majority of its contemporaries. |
| Pop Progressive | Pop accompanied by guitar/bass riffs and speedy drum patterns |
