| Style | Description |
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| Taarab | Taarab is a music genre popular in Tanzania. It is influenced by music from the cultures with a historical presence in East Africa, including music from East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Taarab rose to prominence in 1928 with the rise of the genre's first star, Siti binti Saad. |
| Tai tu | See Nhạc tài tử |
| Taiwanese pop | Taiwanese Pop is a popular music genre sung in the Taiwanese language (Min Nan). It is referred to as Tai-pop and sometimes Hokkien pop. The genre is not the same as Mandarin pop music from Taiwan. |
| Tala | In Indian classical music, Tala (Sanskrit tāla), literally a "clap," is a rhythmical pattern that determines the rhythmical structure of a composition. It plays a similar role to metre in Western music, but is structurally different from the concept of metre. Each composition is set to a tala, and as a composition is rendered by the main artist(s), the percussion artist(s) play the pattern repeatedly, marking time as well as enhancing the appeal of the performance. |
| Tambu | Tambu (also tambú) is a drum, music genre and dance form, found on Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, and is a major part of the Dutch Antillean music. On Bonaire, it is also known as bari. Curaçaoan tambu is a major part of that island's culture, and is there a genre that is considered muziek di zumbi (literally, spirit music, referring to music of African origin), and is accompanied by instruments like the wiri, agan and triangle. |
| Tamburitza | The Tamburitza is a popular instrument in the folk music of Croatia (especially Slavonia) and northern Serbia (Vojvodina). It is also known in parts of southernmost Slovenia. It is a string instrument similar to the mandolin that is plucked. Tamburitza orchestra can have various formats, from a tercet to a large orchestra. A basic tercet consists of a prim, a kontra and a čelo. Larger orchestras also have bas-prims and bass-prim-terc tamburas. |
| Tango | Tango is a style of music that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay. It is traditionally played by a sextet, known as the orquesta típica, which includes two violins, piano, doublebass, and two bandoneons. Earlier forms of this ensemble sometimes included flute, clarinet and guitar. Tango music may be purely instrumental or may include a vocalist. Tango music is well-known across much of the world, along with the associated tango dance. |
| Tanguk | Dangak (syllables: dang-ak) is a genre of traditional Korean court music. The name means "Tang music," and the style was first adapted from Tang Dynasty Chinese music during the Unified Silla period in the late first millennium. It was continued through the Goryeo (918-1392) and Joseon (1392-1910) dynasties, when, along with hyangak and aak it was one of the three approved genres of court music. Dangak performances were accompanied by Tang-style dances known as dangak jeongjae. |
| Talempong | A talempong a small kettle gong which gives its name to an ensemble of four or five talempong as well as other gongs and drums. The term can refer to the instrument, the ensemble, or the genre of music. |
| Tarana | Tarana is a type of composition in Hindustani classical vocal music in which certain syllables are used in a medium-paced (madhyalay) or fast (drut lay) rendition. It was invented by Amir Khusro and now is common all over India and Pakistan. |
| Tech house | Tech house, like progressive house, represents a fusion of house and techno. However, whereas progressive house tends to incorporate atmospheric, ethereal, almost ambient sounds and is often mixed to varying degrees with trance and progressive trance, tech-house tends to have more in common with soulful deep house, traditional Detroit-style techno, and contemporary minimal techno, with which it is often mixed in practice. As one reviewer for Amazon.com suggested, this style fuses "steady techno rhythms with the soul and accessibility of house." |
| Technical death metal | Technical death metal, or tech death for short, is a term used to describe bands in the subgenre death metal. As death metal bands began further exploring the genre, they experimented with a variety of song structures, tempos, and playing techniques from other genres to create music that changed the style. As a result of such experimentation, such as the works of Cynic, Atheist and Cryptopsy, the subform of tech death established itself as a complex and varied musical style. |
| Techno | Techno is a form of electronic dance music that was developed in Detroit, Michigan, during the mid to late 1980s. Many styles of techno now exist, but Detroit techno, a genre in its own right, is seen as the foundation upon which many other subgenres have been built. |
| Technoid | Technoid is an electronic music subgenre that takes its inspiration from IDM, experimental techno and noise music. The end result is usually diverse IDM-influenced rhythms with varying levels of noise and industrial influence. Artists will often use non-conventional sounds within their music, such as field recordings of natural phenomena, dated 8-bit electronic equipment, or samples from artists of a wildly different genre. It is not uncommon for two albums by the same artist to have drastically different sounds and structures, resulting in a number of acts that have evolved a great distance from where they were only years ago. German label Hymen Records is largely responsible for the term and the style. |
| Teen pop | Teen pop is a genre of music which is marketed, but not exclusively, to preteens and teenagers. It is called teen pop because most of the artists within this genre start their careers in their teens. Producers Max Martin, Kara DioGuardi and Jay Orpin are pioneer songwriters of this genre of music. |
| Tejano music | Tejano is from Mexico or Tex-Mex music is the name given to various forms of folk and popular music originating among the Hispanic-descended Tejanos of Central and South Texas. In recent years artists such as La Mafia, Selena Quintanilla, Emilio Navaira, and Selena's brother A.B. Quintanilla's band, Los Kumbia Kings, have transformed Tejano music from primarily a local, ethnic form of music to a genre with wide appeal in North America, Latin America, Europe, and beyond. |
| Tembang sunda | Tembang sunda, also called seni mamaos cianjuran is a genre of Sundanese vocal music accompanied by a core ensemble of two kacapi (zither) and a suling (bamboo flute). Tembang means song or poem and Sunda is a geographical, historical, and cultural construct which signifies home for the Sundanese people of Indonesia. The music and poetry of tembang Sunda are closely associated with the Parahiyangan (literally the abode of the gods), the highland plateau that transverses the central and southern parts of Sunda. |
| Texas blues | Texas Blues is a subgenre of the blues, and of course is not limited to Texas-based musicians. It has had various style variations but typically has been played with more swing than other blues styles. |
| Thillana | Tarana is a type of composition in Hindustani classical vocal music in which certain syllables are used in a medium-paced (madhyalay) or fast (drut lay) rendition. It was invented by Amir Khusro and now is common all over India and Pakistan. |
| Thrash metal | Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music, one of the extreme metal subgenres that is characterised by high speed riffing and aggression. Thrash metal songs typically use fast, percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work. Thrash song lyrics express nihilistic views or deal with social issues using visceral, gory language, an approach which partially overlaps with the hardcore genre. |
