| Style | Description |
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| Thrashcore | Thrashcore is an extremely fast subgenre of punk rock and saw its beginnings after the beginnings of hardcore punk in the early 1980s. Thrashcore is essentially faster hardcore punk. |
| Thumri | Thumri is a common genre of semiclassical Indian music from the North. The text is romantic and devotional in nature, and usually revolves around a girl's love for Krishna. |
| Tibetan pop | Tibetan pop music which is heavily influenced by Chinese forms, emerging in the 1980s. |
| Tientos | Tiento is a musical form and flamenco palo originating in Spain in the mid-15th century. It is formally analogous to the fantasia (fantasy), found in England, Germany, and the Low Countries, and also the ricercare, first found in Italy. |
| Timbila | Timbila is a form of folk music in Mozambique. |
| Tin Pan Alley | Tin Pan Alley (often shortened to TPA) is the name given to the collection of New York City-centered music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. |
| Tinga | Tinga is a genre of popular music of Guinea-Bissau. |
| Toeshey | Toeshey is a genre of traditional Tibetan dance music closely related to Nangma. |
| Togaku | Tōgaku (kanji: 唐樂; literally "Tang Dynasty music") is the Japanese pronunciation of an early style of music and dance from the Tang Dynasty in China. Tōgaku was introduced into Japanese culture from China no earlier than the 8th century. Tōgaku's equivalent in Korea (also introduced from China) is called dangak. |
| T'ong guitar | T'ong guitar (or tong guitar) was a form of Korean music developed in the early 1970s. It was heavily influenced by American pop music, and artists in the genre were considered Korean versions of American folk singers, such as Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. |
| Traditional pop music | Traditional pop or Classic pop or Standards music denotes, in general, Western (and particularly American) popular music that either wholly predates the advent of rock and roll in the mid-1950s, or to any popular music which exists concurrently to rock and roll but originated in a time before the appearance of rock and roll, and its offshoots, as the dominant commercial music of the United States and Western culture. (For a definition of "Traditional pop" see.) The terms pop standards or (where relevant) American standards are used to denote the most popular and enduring songs from this style of music. |
| Trallalero | Trallalero is a kind of polyphonic folk music from the Ligurian region of Genoa, in the north of Italy. It is traditionally performed by men, though there are some female performers in the modern era. The name derives from the monosyllabic vocables (non-lexical vocalizations), tra-la-la. |
| Trance | Trance is a style of electronic music that developed in the 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 160 BPM, featuring repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track. It often features crescendos and breakdowns. |
| Travesty | A travesty, also known as a Burlesque prior to Burlesque Theatre becoming associated with striptease, is a form of musical parody in which a piece is re-arranged into a style very different from that for which it was originally known. This usually takes the form of a serious work (e.g. opera) being presented in a more populist style such as ragtime. |
| Tribal house | Tribal house is a form of electronic dance music derived from house music but being highly drum-centric and often without a core melody. |
| Trikitixa | The trikitixa or eskusoinu ("hand sound") (pronounced, "tri-kí-ti-sha" with the accent on the "ki") is a two-row Basque diatonic button accordion, with right-hand rows keyed a fifth apart and twelve unisonoric bass buttons. Modern Basque traditional music includes ensembles of trikitixa, tambourine and voice. Basque players typically use a highly-ornamented and swift style, along with staccato triplets. |
| Trip hop | Trip hop is a music genre also known as the Bristol sound or Bristol acid rap. The trip hop description was applied to the musical trend in the mid-1990s of downtempo electronic music that grew out of England's hip hop and house scenes. |
| Trip rock | Trip-rock is a term used to describe a type of music played by bands like Livering Weavers, mr. Gnome, Unkle, DJ Shadow, Gorillaz, Portishead, Cut Chemist, Archive (band), and many more. It's a fusion of trip hop and rock genres, principally alternative rock, but it could also encounter connections with new forms of psychedelic rock or progressive music, sometimes even post-rock. |
| Troll metal | Troll metal" is a term coined by fans of bands with lyrical themes revolving around trolls. Although not a real genre it makes classification more specific. Some bands, notably Finntroll, have shifted the focus of their music from the heroic humans or Gods of Norse mythology towards the creatures of more recent Scandinavian peasant folklore, most notably trolls. |
| Trop Rock | Tropical Rock (or Trop Rock) is a genre of popular music which incorporates elements and influences of rock and roll, reggae, country music, carribbean and zydeco, along with an island theme and lyrics depicting a laidback lifestyle. This should not be confused with the Tropical radio format which is a generic term for latin music formats from the Caribbean and is usually in Spanish. |
| Tropicalia | Tropicalismo, also known as Tropicália, is a Brazilian art movement that arose in the late 1960s and encompassed theatre, poetry and music, among other forms. |
| Truck-driving country | Truck driving country is a mix of honky tonk, country-rock and Bakersfield Sound, with the tempo of country-rock and the emotion of honky-tonk. These songs often deal with trucks, and love. Dick Curless and Red Simpson are the best known artists in this genre. |
| Tumba | Tumba is a native musical form to Curaçao. |
| Turbo-folk | Turbo-folk is a popular musical sub-genre that originated in the Balkans during early 1990s. Though it is closely associated with Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro, it continues to be very popular in the other former Yugoslav republics, namely Croatia, Macedonia, and Slovenia. |
| Tuvan throat-singing | See Overtone singing |
| Two tone | 2 Tone (or Two Tone) is a music genre created in England in the late 1970s by fusing elements of ska, punk rock, rocksteady, reggae and pop music. |
