intelligent dance music

It was a record that helped to launch the careers of Autechre, Aphex Twin and Richie Hawtin, birthed the genre that would later become known as intelligent dance music (or IDM), and changed the idea of electronic music as merely a tool for dancing.

2017 July 3, Ben Cardew, “Machines of loving grace: how Artificial Intelligence helped techno grow up”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:

(music) A genre of experimental electronic music that combines elements of techno and dance music with complex rhythmic structures and atypical melodic patterns.


cry the blues

en-verb

cry the blues (third-person singular simple present cries the blues, present participle crying the blues, simple past and past participle cried the blues)

cries the blues (present singular third-person)
crying the blues (participle present)
cried the blues (participle past)
cried the blues (past)

"Young people have forgotten how to cry the blues," said Big Bill Broonzy as he lay dying in a dark room above the littered streets of Chicago's Negro South Side.

1958 September 1, “Best of the Blues”, in Time:

(music) To sing in the style of blues music.


浪花節

ja-noun

浪花(なにわ)節(ぶし) • (naniwabushi) ^(←なにはぶし (nanifabusi)?)

浪花節 (canonical)
naniwabushi (romanization)
nanifabusi (romanization)
なにはぶし (hiragana historical)

浪花(なにわ) (Naniwa) + 節(ふし) (fushi). The fushi changes to bushi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

(music) a 19th-20th century type of storytelling accompanied by a shamisen.


pagode

→ Catalan: pagoda

→ French: pagode

→ English: pagoda

→ German: Pagode

→ Spanish: pagoda

Borrowed from Malayalam പകോതി (pakōti), from Sanskrit भगवती (bhagavatī, “goddess”).


post-punk

en-noun

post-punk (countable and uncountable, plural post-punks)

post-punks (plural)
postpunk (alternative)

→ Russian: постпа́нк (postpánk)

Its tight, jabby songs, influenced equally by minimalist post-punk and sentimental white soul, end just when you think you’ve figured them out.

2008 April 4, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:

(music) A rock music genre that followed punk rock and was more artistic and experimental, laying the foundations for alternative rock.


coldwave

From cold + wave, perhaps influenced by earlier genres such as new wave and darkwave. In France the post-punk genre was called la vague froide.

Band member Azzedine Amrani reflects: “[…] Then, The Cure came to our ears; therefore we started to turn into coldwave music with brand new instruments [such as keyboards and drum machines]^([sic]).”

2014, Andi Harriman, Marloes Bontje, Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace: A Worldwide Compendium of Postpunk and Goth in the 1980s, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 24:

(music) A European style of post-punk music in the 1980s.

Modern industrial music subgenres and fusion-genres include EBM, futurepop, power-noise, aggrotech (terror-EBM), coldwave, elektro, dark-electro, and industrial-metal. Yes, it can be quite confusing.

2007, Raven Digitalis, Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture, →ISBN, page 37:

(music, US) The industrial metal music genre in the 1990s.


electropop

electro-pop (alternative)
electro pop (alternative)

Coordinate term: synthpop

I said, I bet that you look good on the dancefloor / Dancing to electropop like a robot from 1984

2005, Alex Turner (lyrics and music), “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor”, performed by Arctic Monkeys:

Electropop songs are essentially pop songs, often with simple, catchy hooks and dance beats, but they differentiated from those of electronic dance music genres in that the songwriting takes precedence over danceability.

2017, Norman Abjorensen, Historical Dictionary of Popular Music, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 160:

(music) a genre fusing electronic and pop music; technopop


بشرف

ar-noun

بَشْرَف • (bašraf) m

بَشْرَف (canonical)
bašraf (romanization)
بَشْرَف (indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْبَشْرَف (definite informal singular triptote)
بَشْرَف (construct informal singular triptote)
بَشْرَفٌ (indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْبَشْرَفُ (definite nominative singular triptote)
بَشْرَفُ (construct nominative singular triptote)
بَشْرَفًا (accusative indefinite singular triptote)
الْبَشْرَفَ (accusative definite singular triptote)
بَشْرَفَ (accusative construct singular triptote)
بَشْرَفٍ (genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْبَشْرَفِ (definite genitive singular triptote)
بَشْرَفِ (construct genitive singular triptote)

From Ottoman Turkish پشرو (peşrev, “forerunner; prelude, overture”), the first part being Persian پیش (piš, “fore-”), the latter part رو (rav) used in formed words meaning “something that goes”.

bor

<i class="Latn mention" lang="tr">peşrev</i>

bashraf, an instrumental music form in Arabic music


精神音樂

ㄐㄧㄥ ㄕㄣˊ ㄧㄣ ㄩㄝˋ

цзиншэнь иньюэ

/t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵ ʂən³⁵ in⁵⁵ ɥɛ⁵¹/

/t͡sɪŋ⁵⁵ sɐn²¹ jɐm⁵⁵ ŋɔːk̚²/

/t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵ ʂən³⁵ in⁵⁵ ɥɛ⁵¹/

/t͡sɪŋ⁵⁵ sɐn²¹ jɐm⁵⁵ ŋɔːk̚²/

a modernized genre of Cantonese music first popularized in the 1940s, integrating Western instruments and used to accompany ballroom dance


opéra comique

fr-noun

opéra comique m (plural opéras comiques)


dubstep

→ German: Dubstep

"Genres are so boring," said Scotsman Broon, one-half of the tech-house duo, as he scanned the cover of XLR8R magazine hyping "Dubstep" while shopping at Etherea record store.

2002 July 16, Tricia Romano, “Electro Trash”, in Village Voice:

...of course, a lot of grime producers and dubstep producers freely admit to FL being their primary tool, and the software is increasingly being used...

2006, Mary Gaitskill, Daphne Carr, Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006:

...reflect broader class strategies within English society, and the same can be said for more recent genre mutations such as dubstep and grime.

2007, Michael E Veal, Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae:

Acid house, hard-core, drum 'n' bass, UK garage, grime, and dubstep are just a handful of now worldwide underground movements that developed in this way.

2008, Matt Mason, The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism:

But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).

2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The Onion AV Club:

electronic dance music
electronic dance music

A subgenre of electronic dance music descended from 2-step garage that was popular in the early 2010s, characterized by its dark mood, sparse half-step and two-step rhythms, and emphasis on sub-bass.


dubstep

pl-noun

dubstep m inan (related adjective dubstepowy)

dubstepowy (adjective)
dubstep (nominative singular)
dubstepu (genitive singular)
dubstepowi (dative singular)
dubstep (accusative singular)
dubstepem (instrumental singular)
dubstepie (locative singular)
dubstepie (singular vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English dubstep.

ubor

dubstep (subgenre of electronic dance music descended from 2-step garage that was popular in the early 2010s, characterized by its dark mood, sparse half-step, and two-step rhythms, and emphasis on sub-bass)


bassline

en-noun

bassline (countable and uncountable, plural basslines)

(music, uncountable) A music genre, closely related to UK garage, that originated in South Yorkshire and the West Midlands in the early 2000s, having a four-on-the-floor rhythm and a strong emphasis on bass, with chopped-up vocal samples and a pop music aesthetic.


boppish

en-adj

boppish (comparative more boppish, superlative most boppish)

more boppish (comparative)
most boppish (superlative)

The strategy of using two standard tunes and two boppish originals on the first session (23 February 1945) set the pattern for subsequent dates.

1990, John Chilton, The Song of the Hawk, →ISBN, page 226:

With the exception of the leader's boppish title tune, the album is filled with anarchistic jazz reduxes of Nichols, Ellington, Kurt Weill, and Cole Porter.

2004, Todd S. Jenkins, Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia, page 234:


shoegaze

Historically, it is filed by music critics under the shoegaze genre. I suppose this is because the band used a lot of the same guitar tones as shoegaze outfits from the same time, but it was really a bit too psychedelic to fit the genre.

2011, Courtney E. Smith, Record Collecting for Girls: Unleashing Your Inner Music Nerd, One Album at a Time, page 144:

Most of the releases from the Boo Radleys during their shoegaze phase feature just such a baroque, as do Killing Time by Bleach (1992; with a prawn) and ... x, y and z by Moose (1992; with a sunflower).[…]In the same way that the image of the sheep is common for EDM releases at this time, the cat comes to typify shoegaze.

2013, Benjamin Halligan, “3: Shoegaze as the Third Wave: Affective Psychedelic Noise, 1965-91”, in Michael Goddard, Benjamin Halligan, Nicola Spelman, editors, Resonances: Noise and Contemporary Music, page 58:

The shoegaze influence in the early Oasis sound is just as pronounced as the debt to the grunge of Nevermind. Although they were viewed as something of an anomaly within the shoegaze label Creation, Oasis were nevertheless a neo-psychedelic rock band with a taste for distorted guitars and classic sixties pop, so in fact they fitted in pretty well with the Creation house style.

2014, Alex Niven, Oasis' Definitely Maybe, page 44:


南管

/nän³⁵ ku̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/nän³⁵ ku̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Nanguan (an ancient musical genre originating in Fujian, China, and also performed in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines)


contradanza

en-noun

contradanza (countable and uncountable, plural contradanzas)

The music of Cuba has had a worldwide influence on forms of song and dance. René Buch who conceived and directed a musical “collage” called “¡Habana!” at the Repertorio Español on East 27th Street, points out the influence on Spain, for example, which received ‘habaneras’ and ‘contradanzas’ from Cuba; in this century, in the 1920's, the “rumba” and such songs as “El Manisero” and “Siboney” made their way north to become part of United States culture.

1982 December 27, Edward Rothstein, “Music: 40 Songs of Cuba”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page C12:

The programming was far from random. The habanera is a hybrid seed of great potency. An adaptation of the European contradanza by slaves from West Africa, it is not only an early version of a New World rhythm that took over the globe, but also a direct ancestor for much of jazz and rock ‘n’ roll.

2018 March 5, Brian Seibert, “Review: Tapping Out Some New World Rhythms”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(music) A popular Cuban dance music genre of the 19th century, or a work composed in this genre.


haunted house

haunted house (countable and uncountable, plural haunted houses)

بَيْت أَشْبَاح

house believed to be a center for supernatural occurrences

This enigmatic bunch are a reaction to Manchester's musical past, with a blend of haunted house and rave dynamics

2011 March 25, Paul Lester, “New band of the day: Christian AIDS (No 991)”, in The Guardian:

(uncountable, music) Synonym of witch house (“music genre”)


Acid

de-noun

Acid n (strong, genitive Acids, no plural)

Acids (genitive)
Acid (nominative singular)
Acids (genitive singular)
Acid (dative singular)
Acid (accusative singular)

a musical genre marked by fast, often computer-generated rhythms; acid


highlife

en-noun

highlife (countable and uncountable, plural highlifes)

Anwar took the broom away from the Congolese cleaner – whose name I did not know, whose name no one ever thought to ask – and made her dance with him, to some highlife he had going on the transistor radio he carried everywhere.

2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 326:

(music, uncountable) A genre of music that originated in Ghana in the early 20th century, blending elements of traditional Akan music with Western instruments and ideas.


postbop

The drummer Dafnis Prieto, leading a superbly calibrated sextet, chopped up the pulse of his native Cuba with clever feints while borrowing from postbop harmony.

2009 January 12, Nate Chinen, “Acts Onstage (and on the Market) at Three Clubs”, in New York Times:

(jazz) A form of small-group jazz music that emerged in the early 1960s, under the influence of artists such as Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock


рок

be-noun

рок • (rok) m inan (genitive ро́ка, nominative plural ро́кі, genitive plural ро́каў)

rok (romanization)
ро́ка (genitive)
ро́кі (nominative plural)
ро́каў (genitive plural)
рок (nominative singular)
ро́кі (nominative plural)
ро́ка (genitive singular)
ро́каў (genitive plural)
ро́ку (dative singular)
ро́кам (dative plural)
рок (accusative singular)
ро́кі (accusative plural)
ро́кам (instrumental singular)
ро́камі (instrumental plural)
ро́ку (locative singular)
ро́ках (locative plural)
ро́кі (count-form plural)

From Old East Slavic рокъ (rokŭ), from Proto-Slavic *rokъ.

(obsolete) year (time it takes for the Earth to complete one revolution around the Sun)


рок

рок • (rok) m inan (genitive ро́ку, uncountable)

rok (romanization)
ро́ку (genitive)
рок (nominative singular)
ро́ку (genitive singular)
ро́ку (dative singular)
рок (accusative singular)
ро́кам (instrumental singular)
ро́ку (locative singular)


рок

ru-noun+

рок • (rok) m inan (genitive ро́ка, nominative plural ро́ки, genitive plural ро́ков, relational adjective ро́ковый)

rok (romanization)
ро́ка (genitive)
ро́ки (nominative plural)
ро́ков (genitive plural)
ро́ковый (adjective relational)
ро́к (nominative singular)
ро́ки (nominative plural)
ро́ка (genitive singular)
ро́ков (genitive plural)
ро́ку (dative singular)
ро́кам (dative plural)
ро́к (accusative singular)
ро́ки (accusative plural)
ро́ком (instrumental singular)
ро́ками (instrumental plural)
ро́ке (prepositional singular)
ро́ках (plural prepositional)


рок

ро̏к (canonical masculine)
rȍk (romanization)


рок

rok (romanization)
ро́ку (genitive)
рок (nominative singular)
ро́ку (genitive singular)
ро́кові (dative singular)
ро́ку (dative singular)
рок (accusative singular)
ро́ком (instrumental singular)
ро́ку (locative singular)
ро́ку (singular vocative)


folktronica

(music) A musical genre combining elements of folk music and electronica.


avanzada

(music) A genre originated from the fusion of Paraguayan polka and guarania with elements of bossa nova and MPB.


avanzada

[a.β̞ãn̟ˈθa.ð̞a]


cumbia

en-noun

cumbia (usually uncountable, plural cumbias)

From Colombian and Panamanian Spanish cumbia.

There’s […] an accordion- and brass-pumped Colombian cumbia for “Cumbia de Los Aburridos” (“Cumbia of the Bored”).

2007 April 23, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:

(music) A traditional style of Colombian dance and music, or a piece in this style.


cumbia

Of African, probably Bantu, origin. Akin to Cuban Spanish cumbé (“Afro-Caribbean dance”); see cumbancha.


bachata

en-noun

bachata (countable and uncountable, plural bachatas)

/bəˈt͡ʃɑːtə/

From Caribbean Spanish bachata (“party, good time”).

“All the time they complain about it,” said Rafael Batista, the owner of Quisqueya Records, a store whose list of new releases, in keeping with the neighborhood’s large Dominican population, is divided into merengue, salsa, balada and bachata.

2007 February 4, Alex Mindlin, “Yearning to Break the Lock on a Long-Shuttered Park”, in New York Times:

A genre of music originating in the Dominican Republic.


opéra

Borrowed from Italian opera, from Latin opera. Doublet of œuvre and opus.


milonga

milonga (countable and uncountable, plural milongas)

Borrowed from Spanish milonga, in turn from Brazilian Portuguese milonga (“chant”). Theories connect the word to the nineteenth century slave trade between South America and Africa. The ultimate source is unknown, but may relate to Kimbundu mulonga (“word”), or Kongo nlonga or Punu mulonga (“line, row”) in reference to dancers.

In “Gath & Chaves,” a section named after a department store, women pose as mannequins but come to life to dance a tango, a waltz, a milonga and, finally, a mystifying number called “Hound Dog.”

2007 January 26, Gia Kourlas, “Watching a History Lesson That’s Told Through Tango”, in New York Times:

(music) A form of music originating in Argentina, Uruguay, and Southern Brazil.


milonga

Perhaps of African origin and from Kimbundu milonga (“issue, argument”).


milonga

Related to Portuguese milonga, perhaps both ultimately of African origin and from Kimbundu milonga (“issue, argument”).


splittercore

(music) A subgenre of speedcore with aggressive themes and a particularly high BPM (beats per minute).


jumpstyle

A European genre of frenetic electronic music accompanied by a jumping dance.


electronic body music

Coined in 1978 by Ralf Hütter of the German electronic band Kraftwerk.

A genre of aggressive danceable music originating in the 1980s and taking elements from industrial and electronic music.

Kraftwerk
Ralf Hütter
electronic body music


makossa

A music genre from Cameroon, with a strong bass rhythm and prominent horn section.


soukous

The title makes reference to Congolese soukous music, and so does Mr. Koenig’s guitar figure.

2007 June 18, Kelefa Sanneh, “Preppie Afro-Pop and Other Odd Blends”, in New York Times:

(music) A genre of African popular music, resembling rumba, that originated in the Congo region in the 1930s.


kuduro

Uncertain, probably from Kimbundu ku (from mataku) or cu (“butt”) + duro (“hard”).

2014, MARCOS DE DIOS, Ángel, La lengua portuguesa: Vol. I, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca →ISBN, page 163

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

A trilha sonora é “Vem dançar com tudo”, adaptação de “Vem dançar kuduro”. A principal mudança, em relação à canção original, está na substituição da palavra angolana kuduro, um cacófato, que quer dizer, em português, “bunda dura”.

(music) kuduro (danceable style of music originating in Angola)


narcocorrido

narcocorrido (countable and uncountable, plural narcocorridos)

From Spanish narcocorrido, from narco- (“drug”) + corrido (“ballad”).

(music) A genre of Mexican music based on the polka, depicting drug smugglers, cartels, and other criminal activities.


ჯაზი

head

ჯაზი • (ǯazi)


krautrock

From Kraut (“German”) + rock (“rock music”).

Many krautrock bands arose out of the West German student counterculture and connected leftist political activism with experimental rock music and, later, electronic sounds.

2016, Ulrich Adelt, Krautrock: German Music in the Seventies, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 2:

(music, sometimes capitalized) A genre of German experimental rock music from the 1970s.

krautrock

a genre of German experimental rock music from the 1970s


krautrock

(music) krautrock (a genre of German experimental rock music from the 1970s)


singspiel

en-noun

singspiel (countable and uncountable, plural singspiels)

(music, uncountable) An early German form of opera consisting of spoken dialogue interspersed with song.


pop punk

Last fall, Bring Me the Horizon kicked off a new era of their band with a standalone single called "DiE4u", which sounded like a a heavy, metallic take on My Chemical Romance-style pop-punk mixed with the electronic flair of modern emo-rap.

2022 July 6, Eli Enis, “See Bring Me the Horizon's Horrifying, NSFW Video for New Song "sTraNgeRs"”, in Revolver:

(music) A genre that combines elements of punk rock with elements of pop music.


越劇

/ɥɛ⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/jyːt̚² kʰɛːk̚²/

/uat̚⁴⁻³² kiɔk̚⁴/

/ɦyɪʔ¹¹ d͡ʑiɪʔ²³/

/ɦioʔ¹¹ d͡ʑiɪʔ²³/

/ɥɛ⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/jyːt̚² kʰɛːk̚²/

/uat̚⁴⁻³² kiɔk̚⁴/

/ɦyɪʔ¹¹ d͡ʑiɪʔ²³/

/ɦioʔ¹¹ d͡ʑiɪʔ²³/

(music) Yue opera; Shaoxing opera (a form of Chinese opera particularly popular in Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Shanghai)


emocore

Blend of emotional + hardcore; alternatively, emo + -core.

There's a new form of performance occuring out in Washington, D.C. It goes by the name of Emo-Core or Emotional Core. Bands like Embrace (featuring Ian McKaye), Rites of Spring, Beefeater, among others, are taking the severe intensity of an emotional projection and adding it totally into their respective live sets.

1986 January 1, “Notes From the Underground”, in Thrasher:

“Clarity” was a pivotal album for Jimmy Eat World, the first to feature Jim Adkins on lead vocals instead of Mr. Linton and the last to reflect the heart-on-sleeve values of emocore more than the hard gleam of pop-punk.

2009 February 25, Nate Chinen, “Years Later, an Appeal to Heart and Head”, in New York Times:

A style of hardcore punk known for emotional and introspective lyrics.


nerdcore

Many nerdcore anthems — “You Got Asperger’s” by MC Frontalot, “Fett’s Vette” by MC Chris, “View Source,” by Ytcracker (“Eagerly awaiting my macro advances/running with my beta cuz I’m taking chances”) — are as much efforts at comedy as they are attempts at sincere hip-hop.

2007 August 5, Alex Williams, “Dungeons, Dragons and Dope Beats”, in New York Times:

A nerdcore track would take loop samples not from popular industrial tracks, but from the synthesizers of a popular NES game like Dig Dug…

Self-styled “nerdcore” rappers wear pocket protectors and rhyme about hard drives.

2008, Benjamin Nugent, American Nerd: The Story of My People:

(music, humorous) An intentionally nerdy style of hip-hop music.


Madchester

Released late in 1990, the hit album Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches was a summation of the Madchester era.

2013 [1998], Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy, Routledge, →ISBN:

(music) An alternative rock genre and associated social scene that originated in Manchester, England, in the late 1980s, influenced by indie, psychedelic and dance music.


dumka

dumka (countable and uncountable, plural dumkas or dumky)

From Ukrainian ду́мка (dúmka), diminutive of ду́ма (dúma, “sung epic poem”).

(uncountable) A genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine.


dumka

dumka (nominative singular)
dumki (nominative plural)
dumki (genitive singular)
dumek (genitive plural)
dumce (dative singular)
dumkom (dative plural)
dumkę (accusative singular)
dumki (accusative plural)
dumką (instrumental singular)
dumkami (instrumental plural)
dumce (locative singular)
dumkach (locative plural)
dumko (singular vocative)
dumki (plural vocative)

(uncountable) dumka (genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine)


oratorium

pl-noun

oratorium n (related adjective oratoryjny)

oratoryjny (adjective)
oratorium (nominative singular)
oratoria (nominative plural)
oratorium (genitive singular)
oratoriów (genitive plural)
oratorium (dative singular)
oratoriom (dative plural)
oratorium (accusative singular)
oratoria (accusative plural)
oratorium (instrumental singular)
oratoriami (instrumental plural)
oratorium (locative singular)
oratoriach (locative plural)
oratorium (singular vocative)
oratoria (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin ōrātōrium.

lbor

(Christianity) oratorio (musical composition, often based on a religious theme; similar to opera but with no costume, scenery, or acting)

(Roman Catholicism) oratory (Roman Catholic chapel; a building for public or private worship that is not a parish church)

(Roman Catholicism) oratory (meeting place for children and young people where they receive help and care, run by the Salesians of Don Bosco)


popzene

popzenék (plural)
popzene (nominative singular)
popzenék (nominative plural)
popzenét (accusative singular)
popzenéket (accusative plural)
popzenének (dative singular)
popzenéknek (dative plural)
popzenével (instrumental singular)
popzenékkel (instrumental plural)
popzenéért (causal-final singular)
popzenékért (causal-final plural)
popzenévé (singular translative)
popzenékké (plural translative)
popzenéig (singular terminative)
popzenékig (plural terminative)
popzeneként (essive-formal singular)
popzenékként (essive-formal plural)
popzenében (inessive singular)
popzenékben (inessive plural)
popzenén (singular superessive)
popzenéken (plural superessive)
popzenénél (adessive singular)
popzenéknél (adessive plural)
popzenébe (illative singular)
popzenékbe (illative plural)
popzenére (singular sublative)
popzenékre (plural sublative)
popzenéhez (allative singular)
popzenékhez (allative plural)
popzenéből (elative singular)
popzenékből (elative plural)
popzenéről (delative singular)
popzenékről (delative plural)
popzenétől (ablative singular)
popzenéktől (ablative plural)
popzenéé (singular)
popzenéké (plural)
popzenééi (singular)
popzenékéi (plural)
popzeném (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
popzenéim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
popzenéd (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
popzenéid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
popzenéje (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
popzenéi (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
popzenénk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
popzenéink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
popzenétek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
popzenéitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
popzenéjük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
popzenéik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


klasszikus zene

head

klasszikus zene (usually uncountable, plural klasszikus zenék)

klasszikus (“classical”) + zene (“music”)

klasszicista zene

First Viennese School in the Classical period of music

classical music (the more serious forms of music, taught through formal education and performed according to strict rules, as opposed to folk music or popular music)


maskanda

From Zulu umaskanda, from Afrikaans musikant (“musician”).

(South Africa) A style of Zulu folk music, normally played solo.


hardstyle

hi jack. you just missed the best hardcore/gabba party: "thunderdome - a decade", here in amsterdam. 2 huge rooms filled with 15.000 people (the party had sold out weeks in advance), one room for oldstyle (92-97), one for the newer hardcore/hardstyle (97-02).

2002, mik, “gabber/terror/hardcore”, in uk.music.rave (Usenet):

Boiler Room hosted hard dance specials with young crews from across Europe, while American EDM’s absorption of Dutch hardstyle – a fusion of techno and hardcore – has reached truly terrifying levels through the likes of Guatemalan DJ Carnage.

2020 January 10, Joe Muggs, “Gift of the gabber: the return of dance music’s gloriously tasteless subgenre”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(music) A genre of electronic dance music that combines elements of trance, techno, and hardcore, with origins in the Netherlands and Belgium.


Klassik

Klassik (genitive)
Klassik (nominative singular)
Klassik (genitive singular)
Klassik (dative singular)
Klassik (accusative singular)

classical literature
classical literature

classical music, classical literature or another classical thing, the noun form of classical


Weltmusik

de-noun

Weltmusik f (genitive Weltmusik, no plural)

Weltmusik (genitive)
Weltmusik (nominative singular)
Weltmusik (genitive singular)
Weltmusik (dative singular)
Weltmusik (accusative singular)


world music

en-noun

world music (countable and uncountable, plural world musics)

Attributed to ethnomusicologist Robert E. Brown (1960s), later primarily used as a marketing term.

While it can be considered a metagenre, world music is really more of a marketing category.

2016, Roy Shuker, Understanding Popular Music Culture, page 123:

(music) Music that combines elements from traditional styles from the non-Western world along with modern, popular elements, in order to create something marketed towards Western audiences.

世界音樂 /世界音乐

music that combines elements from traditional styles with popular elements


Japanoise

While we allow the sounds of Japanoise to challenge our ears, this practice of sound-making reveals not only the limits of origin stories, but also the limits of the concept of “ongaku,” […]

2021 [2001], Timothy Rommen, Bruno Nettl, editors, Excursions in World Music, 8th edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 204:

(music) A genre of postindustrial music of Japan, primarily in the 1980s and 1990s.


mbube

From Zulu imbube (“lion”) (uyimbube (“you are a lion”)).

A style of a cappella choral music originating among the Zulus of South Africa.


yéyé

Borrowed from English yeah-yeah. Compare to go-go, of contemporary coinage, and Brazilian Portuguese iê-iê-iê.

Fondateur du rock français, Johnny Hallyday, comme Richard Anthony, va rapidement abandonner le rock pur et dur et prendre la tête d’un mouvement plus sucré, plus acceptable par le grand public et les médias : le yéyé. Mouvement sociologique et style musical, le yéyé bouleverse le paysage de la chanson dans la première moitié des années 60.

2013, Gilles Schlesser, Le cabaret «Rive Gauche», l'Archipel, →ISBN:

(music) yé-yé (music genre of the early 1960s)


хаус

ru-noun+

ха́ус • (xáus) m anim (genitive ха́уса, nominative plural ха́усы, genitive plural ха́усов)

ха́ус (canonical)
xáus (romanization)
ха́уса (genitive)
ха́усы (nominative plural)
ха́усов (genitive plural)
ха́ус (nominative singular)
ха́усы (nominative plural)
ха́уса (genitive singular)
ха́усов (genitive plural)
ха́усу (dative singular)
ха́усам (dative plural)
ха́уса (accusative singular)
ха́усов (accusative plural)
ха́усом (instrumental singular)
ха́усами (instrumental plural)
ха́усе (prepositional singular)
ха́усах (plural prepositional)


jazzzanger

nl-noun

jazzzanger m (plural jazzzangers, diminutive jazzzangertje n, feminine jazzzangeres)

jazzzangers (plural)
jazzzangertje (diminutive neuter)
jazzzangeres (feminine)

/ˈdʒɛzˌzɑ.ŋər/


jazzzangeres

jazzzangeres f (plural jazzzangeressen, diminutive jazzzangerestje n, masculine jazzzanger)

jazzzangeressen (plural)
jazzzangerestje (diminutive neuter)
jazzzanger (masculine)


Volksmusik

de-noun

Volksmusik f (genitive Volksmusik, plural Volksmusiken)

Volksmusik (genitive)
Volksmusiken (plural)
Volksmusik (nominative singular)
Volksmusiken (definite nominative plural)
Volksmusik (genitive singular)
Volksmusiken (definite genitive plural)
Volksmusik (dative singular)
Volksmusiken (dative definite plural)
Volksmusik (accusative singular)
Volksmusiken (accusative definite plural)

From Volk (“folk, people”) + -s- + Musik (“music”).


rabiz

Borrowed from Armenian ռաբիզ (ṙabiz). See it for more.

(music) A popular modern Armenian music style that shows Middle Eastern influences and is related to Russian blatnyak and Azerbaijani mugham. Most of the songs have a 6/8 rhythm.


downtempo

(music) A genre of house music and ambient music with an ethereal sound and a driving beat.


sadcore

Near-synonym: slowcore

As proof of this, Staub points to the wide variety of press coverage the band received, from spotlights in the usual music media to reports in People, Time, NPR (which identified the band as one of the leaders of the "sadcore" movement), and even Martha Stewart Living […]

Also, The Red House Painters were the first in a wave of bands that followed in AMC's wake, making slow, bleak music that the press would later dub "sadcore" […]

1999, Seán Body, Wish the world away: Mark Eitzel and American Music Club:

Despite past disappointments, the undisputed king (and queen) of sadcore return […]

Even in 'serious' rock journalism, every sound was a kind of core: hardcore, slowcore, speedcore, sadcore. What next?

[…] one of the grayest sadcore bands on God's bleak earth, a band that for encores — however rarely it earned them — would slog through Irish jigs […]

2004, Jonathan DiMarco, Good Bullets Make Bad Neighbors:

(music, uncommon) A form of alternative rock characterised by bleak lyrics, downbeat melodies and slow tempos.


horrorcore

Lots of us remember the pioneering zeal that the Gravediggaz unleashed on their debut disc, 1994's 6 Feet Deep — a ghoulish effort that spawned the so-called horrorcore genre.

(music) A subgenre of hip-hop music with horror-themed lyrics and imagery.


גוספל

he-noun

גּוֹסְפֶּל • (gospel) m (no plural forms)

גּוֹסְפֶּל (canonical)
gospel (romanization)

gospel music
gospel music#English:_Q180268


thrashcore

A subgenre of fast hardcore punk music that emerged in the early 1980s.


antiopera

(opera) An opera (dramatical production) that deliberately avoids the typical conventions of the opera.

antiópera

an opera that deliberately avoids typical conventions


boom bap

Imitative, representing the sounds of the bass drum and snare drum, respectively.

onomatopoeic

Imitative

A beat made with the 808 drum kit isn't boom bap!

The story of Boom Bap is closely associated with the development and practice of sampling, and as such, Boom Bap is often described as a production technique, a sound, a style, or a subgenre.

2023, Michail Exarchos, Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop: Making Records within Records, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 1997:

(music) A style/subgenre of hip hop characterized by hard-hitting drums, usually containing the kick drum/snare drum/hi-hat combination rather than claps, snaps, TR-808 bass drums, cowbells, shakers, and various other percussion sounds used for rhythm.


musique concrète

musique concrete (alternative)
concrete music (alternative)

Pierre Henry's musique concrète, the Dixie Cups

1980, “I Confess”, performed by Dorothy:

Largely self-taught, he claimed to have been influenced by Schoenberg, Messiaen, and the musique concrete movement.

1996 June 28, Ted Shen, “Cube”, in Chicago Reader:

TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A., ROCK/USADOWN (Monday) The line between metal-on-metal harshness and abstract musique concrète is deliberately blurred in the music of To Live and Shave in L.A., a long-running collective led by Tom Smith.

2007 May 11, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:

A genre of music created by the electronic manipulation of sounds that occur naturally.


musique concrète

→ English: concrete music (calque)

Coined by French composer Pierre Schaeffer.

coin

musique concrète
musique concrète#English


Christian rock

(music) A genre of rock music with a Christian theme.


kosmische

Kosmische’s fertility is only matched by its desire to create something totally new, and it is that which has proved inspirational to successive generations of musicians from right across the spectrum.

2010 March 30, Jon Savage, “Elektronische musik: a guide to krautrock”, in The Guardian:

Van Hoen produced music throughout the '80s, taking inspiration chiefly from Cabaret Voltaire and kosmische acts like Tangerine Dream. At the time, though, this was an entirely isolated pursuit.

2013 April 22, Angus Finlayson, “Mark van Hoen: Playing with time”, in Resident Advisor:

Kosmische the genre was generally beatless, unmoored and astral in character, whereas at Kosmische the club the music was nailed… When the mood was right, you could play almost anything.

2015, David Stubbs, Future Days: Krautrock and the Birth of a Revolutionary New Music, Melville House, →ISBN:

(music, also attributive) Ellipsis of kosmische musik.


baritonist

Featured most notably with Dizzy Gillespie's big band, Payne showed the influence of Harry Carney (the best-known baritonist of the swing era) in his meaty and authoritative sound[…].

1994 June 3, Neil Tesser, “Eric Alexander, Cecil Payne & John Ore”, in Chicago Reader:

(jazz) A player of the baritone saxophone


filin

Borrowed from Spanish filin, itself from English feeling.

(music) A genre that emerged in late 1940s in La Habana, influenced by the melodic and expressive style of vocal jazz.


sevillana

(in the plural) songs and dances that are typical of Seville


sevillana

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines


jazzowy

pl-adj

jazzowy (comparative bardziej jazzowy, superlative najbardziej jazzowy, derived adverb jazzowo)

bardziej jazzowy (comparative)
najbardziej jazzowy (superlative)
jazzowy (masculine nominative singular)
jazzowa (feminine nominative singular)
jazzowe (neuter nominative singular)
jazzowi (nominative plural virile)
jazzowe (nominative plural)
jazzowego (genitive masculine singular)
jazzowej (feminine genitive singular)
jazzowego (genitive neuter singular)
jazzowych (genitive plural)
jazzowych (genitive plural virile)
jazzowemu (dative masculine singular)
jazzowej (dative feminine singular)
jazzowemu (dative neuter singular)
jazzowym (dative plural)
jazzowym (dative plural virile)
jazzowego (accusative animate masculine singular)
jazzowy (accusative inanimate masculine singular)
jazzową (accusative feminine singular)
jazzowe (accusative neuter singular)
jazzowych (accusative plural virile)
jazzowe (accusative plural)
jazzowym (instrumental masculine singular)
jazzową (feminine instrumental singular)
jazzowym (instrumental neuter singular)
jazzowymi (instrumental plural)
jazzowymi (instrumental plural virile)
jazzowym (locative masculine singular)
jazzowej (feminine locative singular)
jazzowym (locative neuter singular)
jazzowych (locative plural)
jazzowych (locative plural virile)
dżezowy (alternative)

/d͡ʐɛˈzɔ.vɘ/

(music, relational) jazz (of or pertaining to the music style jazz; jazzy)


big band

en-noun

big band (countable and uncountable, plural big bands)

(uncountable, music) The music produced by a jazz big band.


roko

Back-formation of rokenrolo, influenced by English's own back-formation of rock and roll (from rock (“to sway, swing”, verb)), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rukkōną.


दादरा

hi-proper noun

दादरा • (dādrā) m

/d̪ɑːd̪.ɾɑː/

[d̪äːd̪.ɾäː]

(Indian Classical Music) a light classical vocal form or genre, a dadra

(Indian Classical Music) the name of a tala, having 6 matras split into 2 equal vibhags of 3 and 3 matras


terrorcore

A European music genre that is a faster variant of hardcore techno, often incorporating samples from horror films.


tekno

teknon (accusative)
tekno-muziko (alternative)
teĥno (alternative)

From English techno, a clipping of technology.

Ĉu via paĉjo ĝuas aŭskulti teknon?

Does your dad enjoy listening to techno?

electronic music
electronic music#English

(music) techno (repetitive genre of electronic music characterized by a four-on-the-floor beat and sequenced synthesizer patterns)


白局

/paɪ̯³⁵ t͡ɕy³⁵/

/paɪ̯³⁵ t͡ɕy³⁵/

(opera) baiju (a form of narrative singing from Nanjing, China)


河北梆子

ㄏㄜˊ ㄅㄟˇ ㄅㄤ ˙ㄗ

Хэбэй банцзы

/xɤ³⁵ peɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ pɑŋ⁵⁵ d͡z̥z̩²/

/ho²⁴⁻²² pak̚³²⁻⁴ paŋ⁴⁴⁻²² t͡su⁵³/

/xɤ³⁵ peɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ pɑŋ⁵⁵ d͡z̥z̩²/

/ho²⁴⁻²² pak̚³²⁻⁴ paŋ⁴⁴⁻²² t͡su⁵³/

(opera) Hebei bangzi, a genre of Chinese opera from the northern province of Hebei and nearby cities such as Beijing and Tianjin


花鼓戲

/xu̯ä⁵⁵ ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi⁵¹/

/faː⁵⁵ kuː³⁵ hei̯³³/

/xu̯ä⁵⁵ ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi⁵¹/

/faː⁵⁵ kuː³⁵ hei̯³³/

huaguxi (a form of Chinese opera from Hunan, China)


歌劇

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (歌劇):
* → Japanese: 歌劇(かげき) (kageki)
* → Korean: 가극(歌劇) (gageuk)
* → Vietnamese: ca kịch (歌劇)

/kɤ⁵⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/kɔː⁵⁵ kʰɛːk̚²/

/kua⁴⁴⁻³³ kiɔk̚⁴/

/kua⁴⁴⁻²² kiɔk̚⁴/

/ko⁴⁴⁻²² kiak̚¹²¹/

/kɔ³³ kiɔk̚²⁴/

/kua⁴⁴⁻³³ kiɪk̚⁴/

/ko⁴⁴⁻²² kiɔk̚⁴/

/kɤ⁵⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/kɔː⁵⁵ kʰɛːk̚²/

/kua⁴⁴⁻³³ kiɔk̚⁴/

/kua⁴⁴⁻²² kiɔk̚⁴/

/ko⁴⁴⁻²² kiak̚¹²¹/

/kɔ³³ kiɔk̚²⁴/

/kua⁴⁴⁻³³ kiɪk̚⁴/

/ko⁴⁴⁻²² kiɔk̚⁴/

歌劇演員

歌剧演员


戲曲

Sino-Xenic (戲曲):
* → Japanese: 戯(ぎ)曲(きょく) (gikyoku)
* → Korean: 희곡(戱曲) (huigok)
* → Vietnamese: hí khúc (戲曲)

/ɕi⁵¹ t͡ɕʰy²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/hei̯³³ kʰʊk̚⁵/

/hi⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ kʰiɔk̚⁵/

/hi²¹⁻⁵³ kʰiɔk̚³²/

/hi¹¹⁻⁵³ kʰiɪk̚³²/

/hi²¹⁻⁴¹ kʰiɪk̚³²/

/hi²¹³⁻⁵⁵ kʰek̚²/

/ɕi⁵¹ t͡ɕʰy²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/hei̯³³ kʰʊk̚⁵/

/hi⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ kʰiɔk̚⁵/

/hi²¹⁻⁵³ kʰiɔk̚³²/

/hi¹¹⁻⁵³ kʰiɪk̚³²/

/hi²¹⁻⁴¹ kʰiɪk̚³²/

/hi²¹³⁻⁵⁵ kʰek̚²/


emo metal

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-emo metal.wav

a musical genre, a mixture between emo and metal music


jytä

jytä (nominative singular)
jytät (nominative plural)
jytä (accusative nominative singular)
jytät (accusative nominative plural)
jytän (accusative genitive singular)
jytät (accusative genitive plural)
jytän (genitive singular)
jytien (genitive plural)
jytäin (genitive plural rare)
jytää (partitive singular)
jytiä (partitive plural)
jytässä (inessive singular)
jytissä (inessive plural)
jytästä (elative singular)
jytistä (elative plural)
jytään (illative singular)
jytiin (illative plural)
jytällä (adessive singular)
jytillä (adessive plural)
jytältä (ablative singular)
jytiltä (ablative plural)
jytälle (allative singular)
jytille (allative plural)
jytänä (essive singular)
jytinä (essive plural)
jytäksi (singular translative)
jytiksi (plural translative)
jytättä (abessive singular)
jytittä (abessive plural)
jytin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
jytäni (nominative singular)
jytäni (nominative plural)
jytäni (accusative nominative singular)
jytäni (accusative nominative plural)
jytäni (accusative genitive singular)
jytäni (accusative genitive plural)
jytäni (genitive singular)
jytieni (genitive plural)
jytäini (genitive plural rare)
jytääni (partitive singular)
jytiäni (partitive plural)
jytässäni (inessive singular)
jytissäni (inessive plural)
jytästäni (elative singular)
jytistäni (elative plural)
jytääni (illative singular)
jytiini (illative plural)
jytälläni (adessive singular)
jytilläni (adessive plural)
jytältäni (ablative singular)
jytiltäni (ablative plural)
jytälleni (allative singular)
jytilleni (allative plural)
jytänäni (essive singular)
jytinäni (essive plural)
jytäkseni (singular translative)
jytikseni (plural translative)
jytättäni (abessive singular)
jytittäni (abessive plural)
jytineni (comitative plural)
jytäsi (nominative singular)
jytäsi (nominative plural)
jytäsi (accusative nominative singular)
jytäsi (accusative nominative plural)
jytäsi (accusative genitive singular)
jytäsi (accusative genitive plural)
jytäsi (genitive singular)
jytiesi (genitive plural)
jytäisi (genitive plural rare)
jytääsi (partitive singular)
jytiäsi (partitive plural)
jytässäsi (inessive singular)
jytissäsi (inessive plural)
jytästäsi (elative singular)
jytistäsi (elative plural)
jytääsi (illative singular)
jytiisi (illative plural)
jytälläsi (adessive singular)
jytilläsi (adessive plural)
jytältäsi (ablative singular)
jytiltäsi (ablative plural)
jytällesi (allative singular)
jytillesi (allative plural)
jytänäsi (essive singular)
jytinäsi (essive plural)
jytäksesi (singular translative)
jytiksesi (plural translative)
jytättäsi (abessive singular)
jytittäsi (abessive plural)
jytinesi (comitative plural)
jytämme (nominative singular)
jytämme (nominative plural)
jytämme (accusative nominative singular)
jytämme (accusative nominative plural)
jytämme (accusative genitive singular)
jytämme (accusative genitive plural)
jytämme (genitive singular)
jytiemme (genitive plural)
jytäimme (genitive plural rare)
jytäämme (partitive singular)
jytiämme (partitive plural)
jytässämme (inessive singular)
jytissämme (inessive plural)
jytästämme (elative singular)
jytistämme (elative plural)
jytäämme (illative singular)
jytiimme (illative plural)
jytällämme (adessive singular)
jytillämme (adessive plural)
jytältämme (ablative singular)
jytiltämme (ablative plural)
jytällemme (allative singular)
jytillemme (allative plural)
jytänämme (essive singular)
jytinämme (essive plural)
jytäksemme (singular translative)
jytiksemme (plural translative)
jytättämme (abessive singular)
jytittämme (abessive plural)
jytinemme (comitative plural)
jytänne (nominative singular)
jytänne (nominative plural)
jytänne (accusative nominative singular)
jytänne (accusative nominative plural)
jytänne (accusative genitive singular)
jytänne (accusative genitive plural)
jytänne (genitive singular)
jytienne (genitive plural)
jytäinne (genitive plural rare)
jytäänne (partitive singular)
jytiänne (partitive plural)
jytässänne (inessive singular)
jytissänne (inessive plural)
jytästänne (elative singular)
jytistänne (elative plural)
jytäänne (illative singular)
jytiinne (illative plural)
jytällänne (adessive singular)
jytillänne (adessive plural)
jytältänne (ablative singular)
jytiltänne (ablative plural)
jytällenne (allative singular)
jytillenne (allative plural)
jytänänne (essive singular)
jytinänne (essive plural)
jytäksenne (singular translative)
jytiksenne (plural translative)
jytättänne (abessive singular)
jytittänne (abessive plural)
jytinenne (comitative plural)
jytänsä (nominative singular)
jytänsä (nominative plural)
jytänsä (accusative nominative singular)
jytänsä (accusative nominative plural)
jytänsä (accusative genitive singular)
jytänsä (accusative genitive plural)
jytänsä (genitive singular)
jytiensä (genitive plural)
jytäinsä (genitive plural rare)
jytäänsä (partitive singular)
jytiään (partitive plural)
jytiänsä (partitive plural)
jytässään (inessive singular)
jytässänsä (inessive singular)
jytissään (inessive plural)
jytissänsä (inessive plural)
jytästään (elative singular)
jytästänsä (elative singular)
jytistään (elative plural)
jytistänsä (elative plural)
jytäänsä (illative singular)
jytiinsä (illative plural)
jytällään (adessive singular)
jytällänsä (adessive singular)
jytillään (adessive plural)
jytillänsä (adessive plural)
jytältään (ablative singular)
jytältänsä (ablative singular)
jytiltään (ablative plural)
jytiltänsä (ablative plural)
jytälleen (allative singular)
jytällensä (allative singular)
jytilleen (allative plural)
jytillensä (allative plural)
jytänään (essive singular)
jytänänsä (essive singular)
jytinään (essive plural)
jytinänsä (essive plural)
jytäkseen (singular translative)
jytäksensä (singular translative)
jytikseen (plural translative)
jytiksensä (plural translative)
jytättään (abessive singular)
jytättänsä (abessive singular)
jytittään (abessive plural)
jytittänsä (abessive plural)
jytineen (comitative plural)
jytinensä (comitative plural)

rock music, especially when played very loudly


метал

ru-noun+

ме́тал • (métal) m inan (genitive ме́тала, uncountable)

ме́тал (canonical)
métal (romanization)
ме́тала (genitive)
ме́тал (nominative singular)
ме́тала (genitive singular)
ме́талу (dative singular)
ме́тал (accusative singular)
ме́талом (instrumental singular)
ме́тале (prepositional singular)


blue-eyed soul

1960s, initially applied to The Righteous Brothers.

One industry spokesman said the reason so many r&b stations are playing blue-eyed soul is that there are few legit r&b artists today.

1965 October 9, “R&B Stations Open Air Gates to ‘White Soulists’”, in Billboard, page 49:

The Righteous Brothers and another blue-eyed soul act called The Young Rascals were also popular in black communities.

2013, Les Back, New Ethnicities and Urban Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 266:

Rhythm and blues or soul music performed by white artists; white soul.


white soul

One of the dangers of “white soul” that revives black music traditions outside of their original cultural context is that the cultural past may be resurrected not to be celebrated or reworked, but to be replaced by new narratives that enshrine white experience and benefit white musicians.

1998, “Soul's Revival”, in Monique Guillory, Richard C. Green, editors, Soul: Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 156:

(music) Rhythm and blues or soul music performed by white artists.

白人靈魂樂 /白人灵魂乐

rhythm and blues or soul music performed by white artists


fuji

en-noun

fuji (countable and uncountable, plural fujis)

Named after Mount Fuji, the tallest mountain in Japan.


樣板戲

/jɑŋ⁵¹ pän²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi⁵¹/

ㄧㄤˋ ㄅㄢˇㄦ ㄒㄧˋ

/jɑŋ⁵¹ pɑɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi⁵¹/

/jœːŋ²² paːn³⁵ hei̯³³/

/jɑŋ⁵¹ pän²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi⁵¹/

/jɑŋ⁵¹ pɑɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi⁵¹/

/jœːŋ²² paːn³⁵ hei̯³³/

(opera, historical) model opera or revolutionary opera, performed in China during the Cultural Revolution


cowpunk

cowpunk (countable and uncountable, plural cowpunks)

On that record, Bad Pumpkin, they romped around the fringes of hard rock, toying with cowpunk on one side and zanier stuff (a Television-at-the-beach instrumental) on the other.

1989 November 10, Bill Wyman, “Fetchin Bones”, in Chicago Reader:

At times the group's new album, Drag It Up, fights to find a middle ground between the surging cowpunk of 1997's Too Far to Care and the melodic pop of 2001's Satellite Rides.

2004 September 3, Bob Mehr, “Chuck Prophet, Old 97's”, in Chicago Reader:

Also known as country punk, cowpunk combines punk rock with folk, country, blues, and rockabilly influences. A wide range of punk bands have evidenced cowpunk tendencies, such as the Blasters, Meat Puppets, Violent Femmes, Social Distortion, the Beat Farmers […] and others.

2022, Rich Weidman, Punk: The Definitive Guide to the Blank Generation and Beyond, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 80:

(uncountable) A musical subgenre that combines punk rock with country music, folk music, and blues.


race music

In use from 1920, replaced by rhythm and blues in the 1940s.

LA's most popular “race music” radio shows featured a white disc jockey, Hunter Hancock, from Texas. He featured black artists on his “Harlem Matinee,” which aired every afternoon starting at four.

2015, Deena Weinstein, Rock'n America: A Social and Cultural History, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 29:

(dated, music) Commercially recorded African-American popular music from the early 20th century, including blues and jazz.


palm wine

palm wine (countable and uncountable, plural palm wines)

palm wines (plural)
palm-wine (alternative)

A genre of popular music most closely associated with mid-20th-century Sierra Leone.


балада

uk-noun

бала́да • (baláda) f inan (genitive бала́ди, nominative plural бала́ди, genitive plural бала́д)

бала́да (canonical)
baláda (romanization)
бала́ди (genitive)
бала́ди (nominative plural)
бала́д (genitive plural)
бала́да (nominative singular)
бала́ди (nominative plural)
бала́ди (genitive singular)
бала́д (genitive plural)
бала́ді (dative singular)
бала́дам (dative plural)
бала́ду (accusative singular)
бала́ди (accusative plural)
бала́дою (instrumental singular)
бала́дами (instrumental plural)
бала́ді (locative singular)
бала́дах (locative plural)
бала́до (singular vocative)
бала́ди (plural vocative)
баля́да (alternative)

ballad (sentimental or romantic poem or song)


psytrance

A genre of trance music characterized by hypnotic arrangements of synthetic rhythms and complex layered melodies created by high-tempo riffs.


space rock

Apart from individual songs, there were certain bands that became associated with these sorts of extended sonic journeys, showing many traits of space rock without much or any overt interest in space topicality as such.

2017, William Echard, Psychedelic Popular Music: A History through Musical Topic Theory, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 201:

(music) A subgenre of rock music, characterised by long psychedelic instrumental passages and lyrics dealing with science fiction or outer space.


folk rock

(music) A subgenre of rock music combining elements of folk music.


Mandopop

Last year, Mandopop streams went up 45 per cent on Spotify, which is unavailable in China.

2024 January 20, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “An Asian megastar who fills arenas in Europe–so who is he?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 14:


K-pop

From K- (“Korean”) + pop, by analogy with J-pop.

K-Pop (alternative)
Kpop (alternative)
KPop (alternative)

Somehow, even I got sucked into this strange K-pop universe. Sure, the quality of the music is sometimes debatable.

2018 December 11, Kevin Liao, “At First I Was a K-Pop Skeptic. Not Anymore.”, in New York Times:

(music) South Korean pop music influenced by Western styles.


K-pop

(music) Alternative form of 케이팝 (keipap, “K-pop”)


K-pop

pl-noun

K-pop m inan (related adjective k-popowy)

k-popowy (adjective)
K-pop (nominative singular)
K-popu (genitive singular)
K-popowi (dative singular)
K-pop (accusative singular)
K-popem (instrumental singular)
K-popie (locative singular)
K-popie (singular vocative)

K-pop (South Korean pop music influenced by Western styles)


C-pop

From C- (“Chinese”) + pop, by analogy with J-pop.

C-Pop (alternative)
Cpop (alternative)
CPop (alternative)

Mandopop and its Cantonese equivalent, Cantopop, are subsets of Chinese pop, or C-pop, whose roots stretch back almost 100 years.

(music) Chinese pop music influenced by western genres.


金屬

/t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/kɐm⁵⁵ sʊk̚²/

/kiŋ⁵⁵ ⁽ˢ⁻⁾nyʔ⁵/

/kim⁴⁴⁻²² siɔk̚⁴/

/kim⁴⁴⁻²² siɔk̚¹²¹/

/kim⁴⁴⁻³³ siɔk̚⁴/

/kim⁴⁴⁻³³ siɔk̚⁴/

/t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/kɐm⁵⁵ sʊk̚²/

/kiŋ⁵⁵ ⁽ˢ⁻⁾nyʔ⁵/

/kim⁴⁴⁻²² siɔk̚⁴/

/kim⁴⁴⁻²² siɔk̚¹²¹/

/kim⁴⁴⁻³³ siɔk̚⁴/

/kim⁴⁴⁻³³ siɔk̚⁴/

重金屬

重金属


Sydney Opera House

A multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.


thumri

en-noun

thumri (countable and uncountable, plural thumris)

A genre of light classical north Indian music.


木頭

→ Korean: 무투 (mutu, “log, timber”)

/mu⁵¹ tʰoʊ̯¹/

/mʊk̚² tʰɐu̯²¹/

/məʔ² tʰəu⁴⁵/

/bɔk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ tʰau¹³/

/bɔk̚⁴⁻³² tʰau²⁴/

/moʔ¹¹ dɤ²³/

/mu⁵¹ tʰoʊ̯¹/

/mʊk̚² tʰɐu̯²¹/

/məʔ² tʰəu⁴⁵/

/bɔk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ tʰau¹³/

/bɔk̚⁴⁻³² tʰau²⁴/

/moʔ¹¹ dɤ²³/

(Jin, opera, music) wooden clappers (small, rectangular, high-pitched wood block used in Jin opera)


press roll

I really went for Ray's press roll on the drums; he was the first fay boy I ever heard who mastered this vital foundation of jazz music.

1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “They Found the Body in a Ditch”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 62:

(jazz) A type of drum roll whereby the drumsticks are pressed against the skin of the drum.


Italo disco

Italodisco (alternative)
Italo-disco (alternative)

A broad genre of Western European electronic dance music of the 1970s and early 1980s, with a futuristic sound created by synthesizers and vocoders.


Christian metal

(music) a genre of heavy metal with a Christian theme


farruca

farruca (countable and uncountable, plural farrucas)

A form of Flamenco music and dance, probably originating in Galicia, traditionally danced only by men.


deathrock

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A subgenre of punk rock, incorporating horror themes, that emerged in the United States in the late 1970s.


slowcore

Near-synonym: sadcore

“Slowcore” was just a silly label that never caught on, but Galaxie 500 represented one of about a dozen varieties of indie rock that existed at the time.

1996, Pat Blashill, Noise from the Underground: A Secret History of Alternative Rock, Touchstone:

Slowcore is a sound best left to the sexless and anal. (No disrespect intended.) Someone worked out that music sounds great stripped right back and left to linger softly in the air.

2001, Everett True, Live Through this: American Rock in the Nineties, Virgin Books Limited, page 114:

(music) A subgenre of indie and alternative rock music, characterized by downbeat melodies, slower tempos and minimalist arrangements.


taqwacore

From taqwa + -core, coined in Michael Muhammad Knight's 2003 novel The Taqwacores, and later applied to real music inspired by it.

(music) A form of punk music or hip-hop that deals with Islamic culture or issues.


intermedium

intermedium (nominative singular)
intermedia (nominative plural)
intermedium (genitive singular)
intermediów (genitive plural)
intermedium (dative singular)
intermediom (dative plural)
intermedium (accusative singular)
intermedia (accusative plural)
intermedium (instrumental singular)
intermediami (instrumental plural)
intermedium (locative singular)
intermediach (locative plural)
intermedium (singular vocative)
intermedia (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin intermedium.

lbor

(music, opera, theater) interlude (short piece put between the parts of a longer composition)

(music, opera) interlude (musical interlude of a cheerful character, performed between acts of a play or opera)

(music, opera) intermezzo (short piece of music or act in the interval of the main spectacle)


Tejano

en-noun

Tejano (countable and uncountable, plural Tejanos)

From Spanish tejano, originally a translation of Texan from English.

Coordinate term: norteño

Calderon points out as evidence an increase in Tejano record sales worldwide, and the meteoric rise of the young late Tejano recording artist, Selena Quintanilla-Perez.

2000, David Maciel, Isidro D. Ortiz, María Herrera-Sobek, Chicano Renaissance: Contemporary Cultural Trends, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN:

(music, uncountable) Various forms of folk and popular music originating among the Mexican-American populations of Central and Southern Texas.


Schlager

de-noun

Schlager m (strong, genitive Schlagers, plural Schlager)

Schlagers (genitive)
Schlager (plural)
Schlager (nominative singular)
Schlager (definite nominative plural)
Schlagers (genitive singular)
Schlager (definite genitive plural)
Schlager (dative singular)
Schlagern (dative definite plural)
Schlager (accusative singular)
Schlager (accusative definite plural)

→ Bulgarian: шла́гер (šláger)

→ Danish: slager

→ Faroese: slagari

→ Icelandic: slagari

→ English: schlager

→ Esperanto: ŝlagro

→ Finnish: iskelmä (calque)

→ Hungarian: sláger

→ Norwegian Bokmål: slager

→ Polish: szlagier

→ Swedish: schlager

→ Romanian: șlagăr

→ Russian: шлягер (šljager)

→ Ukrainian: шля́гер (šljáher)

schlagen (“to hit”) + -er, formally a doublet of Schläger. Attested since the late 19th century and thus older than English hit (early 20th century).

(dated) hit (music or entertainment success)


operaház

operaházak (plural)
operaház (nominative singular)
operaházak (nominative plural)
operaházat (accusative singular)
operaházakat (accusative plural)
operaháznak (dative singular)
operaházaknak (dative plural)
operaházzal (instrumental singular)
operaházakkal (instrumental plural)
operaházért (causal-final singular)
operaházakért (causal-final plural)
operaházzá (singular translative)
operaházakká (plural translative)
operaházig (singular terminative)
operaházakig (plural terminative)
operaházként (essive-formal singular)
operaházakként (essive-formal plural)
operaházban (inessive singular)
operaházakban (inessive plural)
operaházon (singular superessive)
operaházakon (plural superessive)
operaháznál (adessive singular)
operaházaknál (adessive plural)
operaházba (illative singular)
operaházakba (illative plural)
operaházra (singular sublative)
operaházakra (plural sublative)
operaházhoz (allative singular)
operaházakhoz (allative plural)
operaházból (elative singular)
operaházakból (elative plural)
operaházról (delative singular)
operaházakról (delative plural)
operaháztól (ablative singular)
operaházaktól (ablative plural)
operaházé (singular)
operaházaké (plural)
operaházéi (singular)
operaházakéi (plural)
operaházam (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
operaházaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
operaházad (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
operaházaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
operaháza (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
operaházai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
operaházunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
operaházaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
operaházatok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
operaházaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
operaházuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
operaházaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

opera house (a theatre, or similar building, primarily used for staging opera)


Soubrette

Soubrette f (genitive Soubrette, plural Soubretten)

Soubrette (genitive)
Soubretten (plural)
Soubrette (nominative singular)
Soubretten (definite nominative plural)
Soubrette (genitive singular)
Soubretten (definite genitive plural)
Soubrette (dative singular)
Soubretten (dative definite plural)
Soubrette (accusative singular)
Soubretten (accusative definite plural)


dubtronica

A genre of music combining electronica and dub.


trance music

(music) A style of dance music with fast beats, short melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track, often played in nightclubs.


power pop

powerpop (alternative)
power-pop (alternative)

Power pop was given the “pop” part of its name because the songs were based on well-crafted, memorable melodies with clever lyrics, as were some of the early songs by the Beatles. Power pop songs also often included catchy-sounding group harmonies like those sung by the Beach Boys in the early sixties.

1998, Katherine Charlton, Rock Music Styles: A History, McGraw-Hill, page 116:

Then it’s early R.E.M. in excelsis: seething momentum, cascading guitar arpeggios, power-pop punch in the arrangements, […].

2018 October 25, James Parker, “R.E.M., in Retrospect”, in The Atlantic:

(music) A genre of popular music inspired by 1960s British and American pop and rock music, with strong melodies, crisp vocal harmonies, economical arrangements, and prominent guitar riffs.


粵劇

/ɥɛ⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/jyːt̚² kʰɛːk̚²/

/ɥɛ⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/jyːt̚² kʰɛːk̚²/


フィナーレ

ja-noun

フィナーレ • (fināre)


rebetiko

en-noun

rebetiko (countable and uncountable, plural rebetika)

Borrowed from Greek ρεμπέτικο (rempétiko, “rebetiko”).

At the time, these earliest songs of the rebetika tradition were a symptom and a particular manifestation of a wider climate of violence, criminality and despair, whether real or imagined, that permeated the Greek capital around the turn of the century.

2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 172:

(music, in the plural) This style of music; such music as a genre.


deathcore

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Former Hidden Camera Steven Kado and artist Brian Joseph Davis channel a little John Cage filtered through deathcore music with their performance Alvin Lucifer.

2009 May 21, “Critics' choice”, in Toronto Star:

(music) An extreme fusion genre of death metal and metalcore.


happy hardcore

(music) A genre of rave music typified by a very fast tempo and a bright, cheerful sound, often coupled with solo vocals and sentimental lyrics.


rokenrolo

eo-head

rokenrolo (uncountable, accusative rokenrolon)

Phonological borrowing of English rock and roll.

rock and roll (1950s musical genre, typified by Bill Haley)


ritmenbluso

ritmenbluso (uncountable, accusative ritmenbluson)

Phonological borrowing of English rhythm and blues.


polko

polko (accusative singular polkon, plural polkoj, accusative plural polkojn)

polkon (accusative singular)
polkoj (plural)
polkojn (accusative plural)


rokmuziko

rokmuziko (uncountable, accusative rokmuzikon)


skao

(music) ska, a genre of Jamaican dance music combining calypso and mento with jazz and rhythm and blues


rokstedio

rokstedio (uncountable, accusative rokstedion)

Phonological borrowing of English rocksteady.

rocksteady (Jamaican musical genre, slower than ska)


kalipso

kalipso (uncountable, accusative kalipson)

From Trinidad English calypso; Richard Allsopp proposes a link to Ibibio ka iso (“come on”), a phrase used to urge dancers to keep dancing. The spelling reflects an influence from the mythological name Calypso.


zajdeko

zajdeko (uncountable, accusative zajdekon)

zydeco (a blues-influenced Louisianan musical style)


bluso

Nur aŭskultu la bluson kaj malstreĉiĝu!

(music) blues (genre of music of African-American descent often featuring eight- or twelve-bar structures and use of the blues scale)


gospelo

gospelo (accusative singular gospelon, plural gospeloj, accusative plural gospelojn)

gospelon (accusative singular)
gospeloj (plural)
gospelojn (accusative plural)

From English gospel, from Old English gōdspell (literally “good news”), used to translate ecclesiastical Latin bona annūntiātiō.

der

(Christianity) any of the four books of the Bible recounting the life of Jesus: Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John


gospelmuziko

eo-head

gospelmuziko (uncountable, accusative gospelmuzikon)

From gospelo (“gospel”) + muziko (“music”).


ĵuĵuo

From French joujou, from a West African language.


hajlajfo

hajlajfo (uncountable, accusative hajlajfon)

Phonological borrowing of English highlife.


metalroko

metalroko (accusative singular metalrokon, plural metalrokoj, accusative plural metalrokojn)

metalrokon (accusative singular)
metalrokoj (plural)
metalrokojn (accusative plural)

Ankaŭ diskoteka muziko surbaze de marea popola muziko, metalroko, punk-roko.

2011 December 31, Hèctor Alòs i Font, “Revigliĝo en Mareio: Intervjuo kun Andrej Čeməšev”, in Etnismo, volume 88, page 14:

Also nightclub music based on Mari folk music, metal, punk rock.

Mi aldonu, ke, kadre de la metalroko, ili famas ne nur en Hispanio, sed, ankaŭ eksterlande, plej rimarkinde en Meksiko.

2017 January, Miguel Fernández, “Fama hispana rok-ensemblo priomaĝas Esperanton”, in Sennaciulo, page 8:

I must add that, within the frame of heavy metal, they are famous not only in Spain, but also abroad, most notably in Mexico.


bosanovo

bosanovo (accusative singular bosanovon, plural bosanovoj, accusative plural bosanovojn)

bosanovon (accusative singular)
bosanovoj (plural)
bosanovojn (accusative plural)

From Portuguese bossa nova (“new trend, new wave”).

(music, dance) bossa nova (lively Brazilian music and dance similar to samba)


svingo

svingo (uncountable, accusative svingon)


bugio

From English boogie, of uncertain origin.


Rockmusik

de-noun

Rockmusik f (genitive Rockmusik, no plural)

Rockmusik (genitive)
Rockmusik (nominative singular)
Rockmusik (genitive singular)
Rockmusik (dative singular)
Rockmusik (accusative singular)


klasika muziko

eo-head

klasika muziko (uncountable, accusative klasikan muzikon)


rapida metalroko

rapida metalroko (uncountable, accusative rapidan metalrokon)

rapida + metalo (“metal”) + roko (“rock”)


damna metalroko

damna metalroko (uncountable, accusative damnan metalrokon)

damna + metalo (“metal”) + roko (“rock”)


primadono

primadono (accusative singular primadonon, plural primadonoj, accusative plural primadonojn)

primadonon (accusative singular)
primadonoj (plural)
primadonojn (accusative plural)


senakompana

senakompana (accusative singular senakompanan, plural senakompanaj, accusative plural senakompanajn)

senakompanan (accusative singular)
senakompanaj (plural)
senakompanajn (accusative plural)

From sen- (“without, -less”) + akompani (“to accompany”) + -a (adjectival ending).

affix

(music) singing without accompaniment, a cappella


ĝangalo

eo-head

ĝangalo (accusative singular ĝangalon, plural ĝangaloj, accusative plural ĝangalojn)

ĝangalon (accusative singular)
ĝangaloj (plural)
ĝangalojn (accusative plural)

From English jungle, from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “uncultivated land”).

der

(music, neologism) jungle, a genre of electronic music and a predecessor of drum and bass


indietronica

Coordinate term: indie rock

Delphic's debut album, Acolyte, was one of the hits of 2010 for its fizzing indietronica, a more youthful take on the collision of electronics and rock perfected by Manchester predecessors New Order.

2013 January 24, Dave Simpson, “Delphic: Collections – review”, in The Guardian:

(music) A musical genre combining elements of indie, electronica, rock, and pop music.


gumbe

A style of music from Guinea-Bissau which is primarily vocal and percussive.


trenco

eo-head

trenco (uncountable, accusative trencon)

From English trance. The "a" was likely replaced with an "e" to differentiate it from tranco (“trance; a trance-like state”).


industrial music

The style was introduced by the record label Industrial Records (formed in 1976).

One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.

2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 38:

A noisy, experimental genre of music with transgressive themes.


lounge music

A style of music popular in the 1950s and 1960s, intended to evoke in the listener the feeling of being in some other place (an island paradise, outer space, etc.).


paperman

(jazz slang) A musician who cannot improvise.


folkmusiikki

folkmusiikki (nominative singular)
folkmusiikit (nominative plural)
folkmusiikki (accusative nominative singular)
folkmusiikit (accusative nominative plural)
folkmusiikin (accusative genitive singular)
folkmusiikit (accusative genitive plural)
folkmusiikin (genitive singular)
folkmusiikkien (genitive plural)
folkmusiikkia (partitive singular)
folkmusiikkeja (partitive plural)
folkmusiikissa (inessive singular)
folkmusiikeissa (inessive plural)
folkmusiikista (elative singular)
folkmusiikeista (elative plural)
folkmusiikkiin (illative singular)
folkmusiikkeihin (illative plural)
folkmusiikilla (adessive singular)
folkmusiikeilla (adessive plural)
folkmusiikilta (ablative singular)
folkmusiikeilta (ablative plural)
folkmusiikille (allative singular)
folkmusiikeille (allative plural)
folkmusiikkina (essive singular)
folkmusiikkeina (essive plural)
folkmusiikiksi (singular translative)
folkmusiikeiksi (plural translative)
folkmusiikitta (abessive singular)
folkmusiikeitta (abessive plural)
folkmusiikein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
folkmusiikkini (nominative singular)
folkmusiikkini (nominative plural)
folkmusiikkini (accusative nominative singular)
folkmusiikkini (accusative nominative plural)
folkmusiikkini (accusative genitive singular)
folkmusiikkini (accusative genitive plural)
folkmusiikkini (genitive singular)
folkmusiikkieni (genitive plural)
folkmusiikkiani (partitive singular)
folkmusiikkejani (partitive plural)
folkmusiikissani (inessive singular)
folkmusiikeissani (inessive plural)
folkmusiikistani (elative singular)
folkmusiikeistani (elative plural)
folkmusiikkiini (illative singular)
folkmusiikkeihini (illative plural)
folkmusiikillani (adessive singular)
folkmusiikeillani (adessive plural)
folkmusiikiltani (ablative singular)
folkmusiikeiltani (ablative plural)
folkmusiikilleni (allative singular)
folkmusiikeilleni (allative plural)
folkmusiikkinani (essive singular)
folkmusiikkeinani (essive plural)
folkmusiikikseni (singular translative)
folkmusiikeikseni (plural translative)
folkmusiikittani (abessive singular)
folkmusiikeittani (abessive plural)
folkmusiikkeineni (comitative plural)
folkmusiikkisi (nominative singular)
folkmusiikkisi (nominative plural)
folkmusiikkisi (accusative nominative singular)
folkmusiikkisi (accusative nominative plural)
folkmusiikkisi (accusative genitive singular)
folkmusiikkisi (accusative genitive plural)
folkmusiikkisi (genitive singular)
folkmusiikkiesi (genitive plural)
folkmusiikkiasi (partitive singular)
folkmusiikkejasi (partitive plural)
folkmusiikissasi (inessive singular)
folkmusiikeissasi (inessive plural)
folkmusiikistasi (elative singular)
folkmusiikeistasi (elative plural)
folkmusiikkiisi (illative singular)
folkmusiikkeihisi (illative plural)
folkmusiikillasi (adessive singular)
folkmusiikeillasi (adessive plural)
folkmusiikiltasi (ablative singular)
folkmusiikeiltasi (ablative plural)
folkmusiikillesi (allative singular)
folkmusiikeillesi (allative plural)
folkmusiikkinasi (essive singular)
folkmusiikkeinasi (essive plural)
folkmusiikiksesi (singular translative)
folkmusiikeiksesi (plural translative)
folkmusiikittasi (abessive singular)
folkmusiikeittasi (abessive plural)
folkmusiikkeinesi (comitative plural)
folkmusiikkimme (nominative singular)
folkmusiikkimme (nominative plural)
folkmusiikkimme (accusative nominative singular)
folkmusiikkimme (accusative nominative plural)
folkmusiikkimme (accusative genitive singular)
folkmusiikkimme (accusative genitive plural)
folkmusiikkimme (genitive singular)
folkmusiikkiemme (genitive plural)
folkmusiikkiamme (partitive singular)
folkmusiikkejamme (partitive plural)
folkmusiikissamme (inessive singular)
folkmusiikeissamme (inessive plural)
folkmusiikistamme (elative singular)
folkmusiikeistamme (elative plural)
folkmusiikkiimme (illative singular)
folkmusiikkeihimme (illative plural)
folkmusiikillamme (adessive singular)
folkmusiikeillamme (adessive plural)
folkmusiikiltamme (ablative singular)
folkmusiikeiltamme (ablative plural)
folkmusiikillemme (allative singular)
folkmusiikeillemme (allative plural)
folkmusiikkinamme (essive singular)
folkmusiikkeinamme (essive plural)
folkmusiikiksemme (singular translative)
folkmusiikeiksemme (plural translative)
folkmusiikittamme (abessive singular)
folkmusiikeittamme (abessive plural)
folkmusiikkeinemme (comitative plural)
folkmusiikkinne (nominative singular)
folkmusiikkinne (nominative plural)
folkmusiikkinne (accusative nominative singular)
folkmusiikkinne (accusative nominative plural)
folkmusiikkinne (accusative genitive singular)
folkmusiikkinne (accusative genitive plural)
folkmusiikkinne (genitive singular)
folkmusiikkienne (genitive plural)
folkmusiikkianne (partitive singular)
folkmusiikkejanne (partitive plural)
folkmusiikissanne (inessive singular)
folkmusiikeissanne (inessive plural)
folkmusiikistanne (elative singular)
folkmusiikeistanne (elative plural)
folkmusiikkiinne (illative singular)
folkmusiikkeihinne (illative plural)
folkmusiikillanne (adessive singular)
folkmusiikeillanne (adessive plural)
folkmusiikiltanne (ablative singular)
folkmusiikeiltanne (ablative plural)
folkmusiikillenne (allative singular)
folkmusiikeillenne (allative plural)
folkmusiikkinanne (essive singular)
folkmusiikkeinanne (essive plural)
folkmusiikiksenne (singular translative)
folkmusiikeiksenne (plural translative)
folkmusiikittanne (abessive singular)
folkmusiikeittanne (abessive plural)
folkmusiikkeinenne (comitative plural)
folkmusiikkinsa (nominative singular)
folkmusiikkinsa (nominative plural)
folkmusiikkinsa (accusative nominative singular)
folkmusiikkinsa (accusative nominative plural)
folkmusiikkinsa (accusative genitive singular)
folkmusiikkinsa (accusative genitive plural)
folkmusiikkinsa (genitive singular)
folkmusiikkiensa (genitive plural)
folkmusiikkiaan (partitive singular)
folkmusiikkiansa (partitive singular)
folkmusiikkejaan (partitive plural)
folkmusiikkejansa (partitive plural)
folkmusiikissaan (inessive singular)
folkmusiikissansa (inessive singular)
folkmusiikeissaan (inessive plural)
folkmusiikeissansa (inessive plural)
folkmusiikistaan (elative singular)
folkmusiikistansa (elative singular)
folkmusiikeistaan (elative plural)
folkmusiikeistansa (elative plural)
folkmusiikkiinsa (illative singular)
folkmusiikkeihinsa (illative plural)
folkmusiikillaan (adessive singular)
folkmusiikillansa (adessive singular)
folkmusiikeillaan (adessive plural)
folkmusiikeillansa (adessive plural)
folkmusiikiltaan (ablative singular)
folkmusiikiltansa (ablative singular)
folkmusiikeiltaan (ablative plural)
folkmusiikeiltansa (ablative plural)
folkmusiikilleen (allative singular)
folkmusiikillensa (allative singular)
folkmusiikeilleen (allative plural)
folkmusiikeillensa (allative plural)
folkmusiikkinaan (essive singular)
folkmusiikkinansa (essive singular)
folkmusiikkeinaan (essive plural)
folkmusiikkeinansa (essive plural)
folkmusiikikseen (singular translative)
folkmusiikiksensa (singular translative)
folkmusiikeikseen (plural translative)
folkmusiikeiksensa (plural translative)
folkmusiikittaan (abessive singular)
folkmusiikittansa (abessive singular)
folkmusiikeittaan (abessive plural)
folkmusiikeittansa (abessive plural)
folkmusiikkeineen (comitative plural)
folkmusiikkeinensa (comitative plural)

From English folk music, equivalently folk + musiikki

folk music (contemporary music in the style of traditional folk music)


folkrock

folkrock (nominative singular)
folkrockit (nominative plural)
folkrock (accusative nominative singular)
folkrockit (accusative nominative plural)
folkrockin (accusative genitive singular)
folkrockit (accusative genitive plural)
folkrockin (genitive singular)
folkrockien (genitive plural)
folkrockia (partitive singular)
folkrockeja (partitive plural)
folkrockissa (inessive singular)
folkrockeissa (inessive plural)
folkrockista (elative singular)
folkrockeista (elative plural)
folkrockiin (illative singular)
folkrockeihin (illative plural)
folkrockilla (adessive singular)
folkrockeilla (adessive plural)
folkrockilta (ablative singular)
folkrockeilta (ablative plural)
folkrockille (allative singular)
folkrockeille (allative plural)
folkrockina (essive singular)
folkrockeina (essive plural)
folkrockiksi (singular translative)
folkrockeiksi (plural translative)
folkrockitta (abessive singular)
folkrockeitta (abessive plural)
folkrockein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
folkrockini (nominative singular)
folkrockini (nominative plural)
folkrockini (accusative nominative singular)
folkrockini (accusative nominative plural)
folkrockini (accusative genitive singular)
folkrockini (accusative genitive plural)
folkrockini (genitive singular)
folkrockieni (genitive plural)
folkrockiani (partitive singular)
folkrockejani (partitive plural)
folkrockissani (inessive singular)
folkrockeissani (inessive plural)
folkrockistani (elative singular)
folkrockeistani (elative plural)
folkrockiini (illative singular)
folkrockeihini (illative plural)
folkrockillani (adessive singular)
folkrockeillani (adessive plural)
folkrockiltani (ablative singular)
folkrockeiltani (ablative plural)
folkrockilleni (allative singular)
folkrockeilleni (allative plural)
folkrockinani (essive singular)
folkrockeinani (essive plural)
folkrockikseni (singular translative)
folkrockeikseni (plural translative)
folkrockittani (abessive singular)
folkrockeittani (abessive plural)
folkrockeineni (comitative plural)
folkrockisi (nominative singular)
folkrockisi (nominative plural)
folkrockisi (accusative nominative singular)
folkrockisi (accusative nominative plural)
folkrockisi (accusative genitive singular)
folkrockisi (accusative genitive plural)
folkrockisi (genitive singular)
folkrockiesi (genitive plural)
folkrockiasi (partitive singular)
folkrockejasi (partitive plural)
folkrockissasi (inessive singular)
folkrockeissasi (inessive plural)
folkrockistasi (elative singular)
folkrockeistasi (elative plural)
folkrockiisi (illative singular)
folkrockeihisi (illative plural)
folkrockillasi (adessive singular)
folkrockeillasi (adessive plural)
folkrockiltasi (ablative singular)
folkrockeiltasi (ablative plural)
folkrockillesi (allative singular)
folkrockeillesi (allative plural)
folkrockinasi (essive singular)
folkrockeinasi (essive plural)
folkrockiksesi (singular translative)
folkrockeiksesi (plural translative)
folkrockittasi (abessive singular)
folkrockeittasi (abessive plural)
folkrockeinesi (comitative plural)
folkrockimme (nominative singular)
folkrockimme (nominative plural)
folkrockimme (accusative nominative singular)
folkrockimme (accusative nominative plural)
folkrockimme (accusative genitive singular)
folkrockimme (accusative genitive plural)
folkrockimme (genitive singular)
folkrockiemme (genitive plural)
folkrockiamme (partitive singular)
folkrockejamme (partitive plural)
folkrockissamme (inessive singular)
folkrockeissamme (inessive plural)
folkrockistamme (elative singular)
folkrockeistamme (elative plural)
folkrockiimme (illative singular)
folkrockeihimme (illative plural)
folkrockillamme (adessive singular)
folkrockeillamme (adessive plural)
folkrockiltamme (ablative singular)
folkrockeiltamme (ablative plural)
folkrockillemme (allative singular)
folkrockeillemme (allative plural)
folkrockinamme (essive singular)
folkrockeinamme (essive plural)
folkrockiksemme (singular translative)
folkrockeiksemme (plural translative)
folkrockittamme (abessive singular)
folkrockeittamme (abessive plural)
folkrockeinemme (comitative plural)
folkrockinne (nominative singular)
folkrockinne (nominative plural)
folkrockinne (accusative nominative singular)
folkrockinne (accusative nominative plural)
folkrockinne (accusative genitive singular)
folkrockinne (accusative genitive plural)
folkrockinne (genitive singular)
folkrockienne (genitive plural)
folkrockianne (partitive singular)
folkrockejanne (partitive plural)
folkrockissanne (inessive singular)
folkrockeissanne (inessive plural)
folkrockistanne (elative singular)
folkrockeistanne (elative plural)
folkrockiinne (illative singular)
folkrockeihinne (illative plural)
folkrockillanne (adessive singular)
folkrockeillanne (adessive plural)
folkrockiltanne (ablative singular)
folkrockeiltanne (ablative plural)
folkrockillenne (allative singular)
folkrockeillenne (allative plural)
folkrockinanne (essive singular)
folkrockeinanne (essive plural)
folkrockiksenne (singular translative)
folkrockeiksenne (plural translative)
folkrockittanne (abessive singular)
folkrockeittanne (abessive plural)
folkrockeinenne (comitative plural)
folkrockinsa (nominative singular)
folkrockinsa (nominative plural)
folkrockinsa (accusative nominative singular)
folkrockinsa (accusative nominative plural)
folkrockinsa (accusative genitive singular)
folkrockinsa (accusative genitive plural)
folkrockinsa (genitive singular)
folkrockiensa (genitive plural)
folkrockiaan (partitive singular)
folkrockiansa (partitive singular)
folkrockejaan (partitive plural)
folkrockejansa (partitive plural)
folkrockissaan (inessive singular)
folkrockissansa (inessive singular)
folkrockeissaan (inessive plural)
folkrockeissansa (inessive plural)
folkrockistaan (elative singular)
folkrockistansa (elative singular)
folkrockeistaan (elative plural)
folkrockeistansa (elative plural)
folkrockiinsa (illative singular)
folkrockeihinsa (illative plural)
folkrockillaan (adessive singular)
folkrockillansa (adessive singular)
folkrockeillaan (adessive plural)
folkrockeillansa (adessive plural)
folkrockiltaan (ablative singular)
folkrockiltansa (ablative singular)
folkrockeiltaan (ablative plural)
folkrockeiltansa (ablative plural)
folkrockilleen (allative singular)
folkrockillensa (allative singular)
folkrockeilleen (allative plural)
folkrockeillensa (allative plural)
folkrockinaan (essive singular)
folkrockinansa (essive singular)
folkrockeinaan (essive plural)
folkrockeinansa (essive plural)
folkrockikseen (singular translative)
folkrockiksensa (singular translative)
folkrockeikseen (plural translative)
folkrockeiksensa (plural translative)
folkrockittaan (abessive singular)
folkrockittansa (abessive singular)
folkrockeittaan (abessive plural)
folkrockeittansa (abessive plural)
folkrockeineen (comitative plural)
folkrockeinensa (comitative plural)

folk rock (subgenre of rock music combining elements of folk music)


Neue Deutsche Welle

de-proper noun

die Neue Deutsche Welle f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Neuen Deutschen Welle)

die Neue Deutsche Welle (canonical feminine)
der Neuen Deutschen Welle (definite genitive)

neu (“new”) + deutsch (“German”) + Welle (“wave”), adapted calque of English new wave.

compound

Und ich sage euch die Wahrheit / Endlich heute voller Klarheit / Neue Deutsche Welle / Ist neue deutsche Hölle!

1983, “Lorelei”, in Angstlos, performed by Nina Hagen:

Ansonsten galt die Neue Deutsche Welle als flüchtige Phase der Vergangenheit, als eine Blase, die lange als kommerziell nicht vermarktbar erschien, sich Anfang der Achtzigerjahre aber mächtig aufblähte–und dann rasch platzte.

2011, Michael Fuchs-Gamböck, Thorsten Schatz, Jan Delay: Die Biografie, Heyne Verlag, →ISBN:

(music) New German Wave (early 1980s genre of German music originally derived from punk rock and New Wave)


Hamburger Schule

de-proper noun

Hamburger Schule f (proper noun, genitive Hamburger Schule)

Hamburger (“of Hamburg”) + Schule (“school”)

compound

(music) "Hamburg school", a musical current originating in Hamburg, Germany during the 1980s and early 1990s encompassing elements from punk, grunge and experimental pop


finał

pl-noun

finał m inan (related adjective finałowy)

finałowy (adjective)
finał (nominative singular)
finały (nominative plural)
finału (genitive singular)
finałów (genitive plural)
finałowi (dative singular)
finałom (dative plural)
finał (accusative singular)
finały (accusative plural)
finałem (instrumental singular)
finałami (instrumental plural)
finale (locative singular)
finałach (locative plural)
finale (singular vocative)
finały (plural vocative)

Internationalism; compare English final, French finale, German Finale, ultimately from Italian finale, from Late Latin fīnālis.

(opera) finale (end of the entire opera or one of its acts)


džäss

head

džäss (genitive džässi, partitive džässi)

džässi (genitive)
džässi (partitive)
džäss (nominative singular)
džässid (nominative plural)
džäss (accusative nominative singular)
džässid (accusative nominative plural)
džässi (accusative genitive singular)
džässid (accusative genitive plural)
džässi (genitive singular)
džässide (genitive plural)
džässi (partitive singular)
džässe (partitive plural)
džässisid (partitive plural)
džässi (illative singular)
džässisse (illative singular)
džässidesse (illative plural)
džässesse (illative plural)
džässis (inessive singular)
džässides (inessive plural)
džässes (inessive plural)
džässist (elative singular)
džässidest (elative plural)
džässest (elative plural)
džässile (allative singular)
džässidele (allative plural)
džässele (allative plural)
džässil (adessive singular)
džässidel (adessive plural)
džässel (adessive plural)
džässilt (ablative singular)
džässidelt (ablative plural)
džässelt (ablative plural)
džässiks (singular translative)
džässideks (plural translative)
džässeks (plural translative)
džässini (singular terminative)
džässideni (plural terminative)
džässina (essive singular)
džässidena (essive plural)
džässita (abessive singular)
džässideta (abessive plural)
džässiga (comitative singular)
džässidega (comitative plural)


jazz band

jazz bands (plural)
jazzband (alternative)

(music, jazz) A musical band that plays jazz music.


marŝo

eo-head

marŝo (accusative singular marŝon, plural marŝoj, accusative plural marŝojn)

marŝon (accusative singular)
marŝoj (plural)
marŝojn (accusative plural)


raggamuffin

International reggae takes another spin with Kulcha Connection's Plus Haut (Subsonik, Canada), a rollicking raggamuffin release with clean, crisp backing tracks and alternating singer and dj segments delivered almost entirely in French.

2004, The Beat, volume 23, number 2, page 13:

Reggae music is as old as the history of Africans suffering in the Carribean. But, as a result of the Americanization of this music to form raggamuffin, drugs are openly idolized. The singer called Bob Marley promoted the use of marijuana and among the African fans of raggamuffin, the use of marijuana is now standard.

2005, Ndirangu Mwaura, Kenya Today: Breaking the Yoke of Colonialism in Africa, Algora Publishing, →ISBN, page 191:


novelty song

A comical or nonsensical song, usually performed for comedic or humorous effect.


snagcheol

head

snagcheol m (genitive singular snagcheoil)

snagcheoil (genitive singular)
snagcheol (indefinite nominative singular)
a shnagcheoil (indefinite singular vocative)
snagcheoil (genitive indefinite singular)
snagcheol (dative indefinite singular)
an snagcheol (definite nominative singular)
an tsnagcheoil (definite genitive singular)
leis an snagcheol (dative definite singular)
don snagcheol (dative definite singular)
snagcheol
shnagcheol
tsnagcheol

/ˈsˠn̪ˠaɡˌçoːlˠ/

From snag (“catch, hiccup; syncopation”) + ceol (“music”).


charanga

Going to hear charanga, the Afro-Cuban music that uses strings, flute and a standard rhythm section, is a bit like going to see a rare ibex in a zoo: it's a wonder that it exists at all, and its existence can color one's perception of its value.

1995 February 22, Peter Watrous, “In Performance”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The album includes plenty of songs about love and dancing that draw on vintage and recent Cuban music, from the lilting son to the elegant flute and violins of charanga to percussive rumba and mambo.

2007 September 17, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:

(countable, uncountable, music) A traditional ensemble of Cuban dance music, and the genre of music they create.


cantiga

From Portuguese cantiga, from Old Galician-Portuguese cantiga.

The most immediately engaging work here was Roberto Sierra’s “Güell Concert” (2006). Mr. Sierra uses a medieval Spanish cantiga as the work’s motto, but leaps quickly into modern rhythmic and harmonic complexities.

2007 October 1, Allan Kozinn, “Juilliard’s New Semester Starts With New Music”, in New York Times:

A medieval monophonic song, sometimes religious, characteristic of the Galician-Portuguese lyric.


ceoldráma

head

ceoldráma m (genitive singular ceoldráma, nominative plural ceoldrámaí)

ceoldráma (genitive singular)
ceoldrámaí (nominative plural)
ceoldráma (indefinite nominative singular)
ceoldrámaí (indefinite nominative plural)
a cheoldráma (indefinite singular vocative)
a cheoldrámaí (indefinite plural vocative)
ceoldráma (genitive indefinite singular)
ceoldrámaí (genitive indefinite plural)
ceoldráma (dative indefinite singular)
ceoldrámaí (dative indefinite plural)
an ceoldráma (definite nominative singular)
na ceoldrámaí (definite nominative plural)
an cheoldráma (definite genitive singular)
na gceoldrámaí (definite genitive plural)
leis an gceoldráma (dative definite singular)
don cheoldráma (dative definite singular)
leis na ceoldrámaí (dative definite plural)
ceoldráma
cheoldráma
gceoldráma

From ceol (“music”) + dráma (“drama, (stage-)play”).


sludge metal

An abrasive, distorted subgenre of heavy metal music influenced by hardcore punk and doom metal.


stoner rock

As with psychedelia, the literary links of stoner rock are not its dominant features, especially insofar as many bands distance themselves from the broadly understood mainstream, which connotes forms of elitism and canonization.

2022, Ryan Hibbett, editor, Lit-Rock: Literary Capital in Popular Music, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 130:

(music) A subgenre of heavy metal which combines it with elements of psychedelic rock and acid rock.


röck döts

/ˈɹøːk ˌdøːts/

The words rock dots with the unnecessary umlaut placed above them.

In the world of heavy metal, the umlaut - otherwise known as röck döts - is the ultimate illustration of Spinal Tap's dictum that there's a fine line between clever and stupid.

2005 December 2, Michael Dwyer, “The full Mötley”, in The Age:

I imagine I'd be seeing a lot of metal tonight, so why not go for an obscure eighties punk song? Plus, Hüsker Dü = dual röck döts!

2006, Björn Türoque, To Air Is Human: One Man's Quest to Become the World's Greatest Air Guitarist, Riverhead Books:

heavy metal umlaut
heavy metal umlaut#English

(informal, humorous) Synonym of heavy metal umlaut


barokmuziko

eo-head

barokmuziko (uncountable, accusative barokmuzikon)

From baroka (“Baroque”, adjective) + muziko (“music”).


popolmuziko

eo-head

popolmuziko (uncountable, accusative popolmuzikon)

From popola (“popular”) + muziko (“music”).


dream pop

(music) A subgenre of alternative rock with ethereal textures and breathy vocals rather than hard riffs.


art rock

(music) A subgenre of experimental, intellectual rock music, often presented as a suite of pieces with a story or theme.


alt-country

alternative country
alternative country#English

(music) Clipping of alternative country.


eurodance

eurodance (nominative singular)
eurodance'u (genitive singular)
eurodance'owi (dative singular)
eurodance (accusative singular)
eurodance'em (instrumental singular)
eurodansie (locative singular)
eurodansie (singular vocative)


champeta

Bomba Estéreo’s set at the Bowery Ballroom on Thursday night — part of a six-band lineup — was kaleidoscopic and danceable, mingling the clip-clop bounce of cumbia and another Colombian rhythm, champeta, with echoey guitar, reggae backbeats and the singing and rapping of Liliana Saumet.

2009 July 11, Jon Pareles, “Latin Alternative Music’s Movers and Shakers Meet”, in New York Times:

(music) A form of local independent music from Colombia.


トランス

[to̞ɾã̠ɰ̃sɨ]


yé-yé

en-noun

yé-yé (countable and uncountable, plural yé-yés)

From French yéyé, from English yeah-yeah.

[…] she (Françoise Hardy) is so today, so white boots and yé-yé, that she can make anyone over 25 (me) feel prehistoric, raccoon coat and rah-rah.

1966 December 18, Joan Barthel, “Francoise from France: White Boots and Ye-Ye”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(uncountable, music) A genre of pop music of the early 1960s in Europe.


funkabilly

(music) A subgenre of popular music that blends rockabilly with funk.


darkcore

From dark + -core, perhaps from the 1993 track Darkcore by Two Dark Troopers, released on Basement Records.

Of course, even amid the beeps and beats good old guitar music never went away, and there are plenty of indie, punk and alternative bands gigging to appreciative audiences, as well as the resolutely grim Gothic and darkcore fringe.

2002, Andrea Schulte-Peevers, Berlin, page 36:

(music) A subgenre of jungle music with morbid, horror-based themes.


mathcore

While all that herky-jerky mathcore in your collection might not fit the bill, put some Portishead on your Pod and the attached OhMiBod will respond rhythmically in kind.

(music) A rhythmically complex and dissonant style of metalcore music.


Nintendocore

From Nintendo (“Japanese multinational video game company”) + -core (suffix denoting a music genre, especially one influenced by hardcore music), with reference to the simplistic sound effects of early video game consoles. The word was coined by the American musician Nathan Winneke, the frontman of the metalcore band Horse the Band, as a joke; the band posted the word on the Internet and also printed it on a label on the compact disc of their first demo I Am a Small Wooden Statue on a Patch of Crabgrass Next to a Dried Up Riverbed (2001).

coinage

Did you ever wonder what it would be like to mix the theme song from the original Mario Bros. games with chugging guitars and the vocal stylings of someone who wasn't hugged enough as a child? You're not alone. In fact, there's an entire genre of music devoted to this sound – it's called nintendocore. Growing out of metalcore – a fusion of heavy metal and punk – nintendocore derives its distinctive sound from the use of synths reminiscent of mid-eighties video games.

2009 November 2, Amy Plachta, “You Never Knew You Loved … Nintendocore a Unique Sound Worth Exploring”, in Interrobang: Fanshawe College’s Student Voice, volume 42, number 11, London, Ont.: Fanshawe College Student Union, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-31:

In the ever-changing landscape of music, that's given way to such genres as emo, screamo, nu metal and Nintendocore, one question remains! Does anyone play rock music anymore?

2010 May, Jake Brown, Alice in Chains: In the Studio, Nashville, Tenn.: Rock ’N’ Roll Books, →ISBN:

At the time of writing, Spotify currently lists over 4,000 online categories and sub-categories of music ranging from Nintendocore – a genre delineated solely by the overlay of bludgeoning, bowel-stewing grunge riffs on old-school videogame soundtracks – to Pornogrind, a maximum security subgenre of Grindcore (a convulsing fusion of rawboned, buzz-sawing death metal and tightly coiled hardcore punk).

2020, Kevin Dutton, Black and White Thinking: The Burden of a Binary Brain in a Complex World, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN:

In the US, a well-known Brooklyn music venue hosted a Minecraft concert featuring much loved bands[…]. The sprawling nightclub was painstakingly recreated and featured performances from the popular emo act American Football, "Nintendocore" videogame musicians Anamanaguchi and electronic artist Baths[…].

2020, Larissa Hjorth, Ingrid Richardson, Hugh Davies, William Balmford, “Playing during and post COVID-19 Pandemic”, in Exploring Minecraft: Ethnographies of Play and Creativity (Palgrave Games in Context), Cham, Zug, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 171:

(music, video games) An aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes (“music that samples or emulates the audio capabilities of older sound chips”) and video game music.

Nintendocore

aggressive genre of modern rock music influenced by chiptunes and video game music


breakcore

/ˈbɹeɪkˌkɔː/

/ˈbɹeɪkˌkɔːɹ/

The head-on collision between DJ Ricky Rabbit's fractured breakcore and MC Vulture Voltaire's fuming invective is a spectacle of almost physical impossibility, like trying to rap along to an earthquake while getting tased[…]

2008, SPIN, volume 24, number 2, page 93:

Where breakcore picks up on rave's daftness, dubstep fixates on its darkness, sometimes to a shlocky degree[…]

2008, Marc Masters, Weasel Walter, Rob Young, No Wave:

(music) A style of electronic music characterised by a high tempo, complex and intricate breakbeats, and a wide palette of samples from various sources, especially the "Amen break".


nardcore

From Oxnard + -core, to rhyme with hardcore.

A hardcore punk movement in Southern California in the early 1980s.


happycore

Shortening, equivalent to happy + -core.

In large part, happycore was the result of an exodus of white ravers from the jungle scene, in reaction to the influx of black youth and the attendant mood change from bonhomie to surliness.

2013, Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, page 291:


worldbeat

DJ King Scratch will spin worldbeat music all night, including Byron Lee's calypso, Machito's salsa, and Segun Adawale's African high-life.

1989 May 26, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader:

Diners sit amongst peaceful concrete trees and plastic leaves, listening to soothing worldbeat music; renderings of globes appear throughout, as do references to FoodlifeUs massive recycling program and the healthiness of the establishment's victuals.

1996 April 12, Tom Frank, “Capital Lies: Swallow it Whole”, in Chicago Reader:

Sawt El Atlas delivers what the worldbeat bands of the 80s couldn't: instead of being grafted onto native forms, the Western elements are seamlessly incorporated.

2001 July 13, Peter Margasak, “Sawt El Atlas”, in Chicago Reader:

(music) A music genre that blends Western pop music with traditional folk music or world music.


country rock

en-noun

country rock (countable and uncountable, plural country rocks)

(music, uncountable) A genre of music combining elements of country music and rock music.

xenolith

when present as an inclusion in igneous rock from a local magma source


曲藝

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/kʰʊk̚⁵ ŋɐi̯²²/

/kʰiɔk̚⁵⁻²⁴ ɡe⁴¹/

/kʰiɔk̚³²⁻⁴ ɡe²²/

/kʰiɔk̚³²⁻⁵ ɡe²²/

/t͡ɕʰioʔ³³ n̠ʲi⁴⁴/

/t͡ɕʰyɪʔ³³ n̠ʲi⁴⁴/

/t͡ɕʰy²¹⁴⁻²¹ i⁵¹/

/kʰʊk̚⁵ ŋɐi̯²²/

/kʰiɔk̚⁵⁻²⁴ ɡe⁴¹/

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/kʰiɔk̚³²⁻⁵ ɡe²²/

/t͡ɕʰioʔ³³ n̠ʲi⁴⁴/

/t͡ɕʰyɪʔ³³ n̠ʲi⁴⁴/

quyi; a category of traditional, usually non-staged, Chinese vocal art forms such as ballad singing (唱曲 (chàngqǔ) or 彈唱／弹唱 (tánchàng)), storytelling (說書／说书 (shuōshū)), comic dialogues (小品 (xiǎopǐn)), clapper talk (快板 (kuàibǎn)), and crosstalk (相聲／相声 (xiàngsheng))


ਕਾਫ਼ੀ

pa-noun

ਕਾਫ਼ੀ • (kāfī) f (Shahmukhi spelling کافی)

kafi (genre of Punjabi and Sindhi classical music)