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Gaana

Gaana (or Gānā) is a genre of Tamil music, which is sung in the Madras Bashai dialect of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is rap-like "collection of rhythms, beats and sensibilities native to the

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Gabber

Gabber ( ; ) is a style of electronic dance music and a subgenre of hardcore, as well as the surrounding subculture. The music is characterised by fast beats, distorted and heavy kickdrums, with dark

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Gabberpop

Gabberpop, also known as gabber-pop or pop-gabber, is a musical genre that combines elements of pop music with gabber-related genres such as happy hardcore. The genre is characterized by the

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Gaelic folk music

Gaelic folk music or Gaelic traditional music is the folk music of Goidelic-speaking communities in Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man, often including lyrics in those languages. Characteristic

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Gaelic music

Gaelic music (, "Irish music" or "Gaelic music," ) is an umbrella term for any music written in the Gaelic languages of Irish and Scottish Gaelic. To differentiate between the two, the Irish language

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Gaelic psalm singing

Gaelic psalm singing, or Gaelic psalmody (), is a tradition of exclusive psalmody in the Scottish Gaelic language found in Presbyterian churches in the Western Isles of Scotland. It is a form of

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Gagaku

is a type of Japanese classical music that was historically used for imperial court music and dances. was developed as court music of the Kyoto Imperial Palace, and its near-current form was

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Gagok

Gagok () is a genre of traditional Korean vocal music, derived from jeong-ak, for mixed female and male voices. Its origins date back to the sijo sung poetry enjoyed by the aristocracy in the Goryeo

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Gaita zuliana

Gaita zuliana (often simply called "gaita") is a style of Venezuelan folk music (and dance) from Maracaibo, Zulia State. Dating as far back as the 1800s, gaitas began as improvised songs in the

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Galant music

In music, galant refers to the style which was fashionable in the upper-class societies of Western Europe from the 1720s to the 1770s. In the 19th and 20th centuries, musicologists gave the term a

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Galician chant

The Galician chant (Ukrainian: галицький розспів), is a form of liturgical chant originating in Western Ukraine, particularly in the region of Galacia. It is used predominantly in the Ukrainian Greek

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Galician rumba

Galician rumba (rumba gallega) belongs to those songs and dances called cantes de ida y vuelta, "of departure and return", like the Habanera, that travelled back from Cuba to the Spanish motherland

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Galliard

The galliard (; ; ) was a form of Renaissance dance and music popular all over Europe in the 16th century. It is mentioned in dance manuals from England, Portugal, France, Spain, Germany, and

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Gallican chant

Gallican chant refers to the liturgical plainchant repertory of the Gallican rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Gaul, prior to the introduction and development of elements of the Roman rite from

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Gambang kromong

Gambang kromong is a traditional orchestra of Betawi people which is a blend of gamelan, Western music and Chinese-style pentatonic base tones. Gambang kromong is closely associated with the Chinese

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Gambian hip-hop

The Gambian hip hop scene is a relatively new scene in African hip hop which developed in the mid-1990s and was heavily influenced by American hip hop and Senegalese hip hop. Gambian hip-hop has been

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Gamelan

Gamelan (; , ; ; ) is the traditional ensemble music of the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese peoples of Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments. The most common instruments used

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Gamelan degung

Gamelan degung is a form of Sundanese musical ensemble that uses a subset of modified gamelan instruments with a particular mode of degung scale. The instruments are manufactured under local

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Gamelan Gadhon

A gamelan gadhon is an ensemble consisting of the 'soft' instruments of the Javanese gamelan. This can include rebab, gendér, gendér panerus, voice, slenthem, suling, siter, gong, kempul, kenong, and

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Gamelan gender wayang

Gamelan gender wayang is a style of gamelan music played in Bali, Indonesia. It is required for wayang (shadow puppet theatre) and most sacred Balinese Hindu rituals. The smallest of gamelan

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Gamelan gong gede

Gamelan gong gede, meaning "gamelan with the large gongs", is a form of the ceremonial gamelan music of Bali, dating from the court society of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, associated

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Gamelan gong kebyar

Gamelan gong kebyar is a style or genre of Balinese gamelan music of Indonesia. Kebyar means "to flare up or burst open", and refers to the explosive changes in tempo and dynamics characteristic of

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Gamelan jegog

Jegog is a form of gamelan music indigenous to Bali, Indonesia, played on instruments made of bamboo. The tradition of jegog is centered in Jembrana, a region in Western Bali. In recent years jegog

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Gamelan joged bumbung

Joged bumbung is a style of gamelan music from Bali, Indonesia played on instruments made primarily out of bamboo. The ensemble gets its name from joged, a flirtatious dance often performed at

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Gamelan Sekaten

The Gamelan Sekaten (or Sekati) is a ceremonial gamelan (musical ensemble) from central Java, Indonesia, played during the annual Sekaten festival. The word "sekaten" itself is derived from

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Gamelan semar pegulingan

Gamelan semar pegulingan is an old variety of the Balinese gamelan. Dating back from around the 17th century, the style is sweeter and more reserved than the more popular and progressive Gamelan Gong

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Gamelan surakarta

Gamelan surakarta is one of two subtly distinct styles of gamelan playing that have emerged in central Java since 1755. In contrast to yogyakarta, the Surakarta style is known for its intricate, soft

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Ganga (music)

Ganga (Cyrillic: Ганга) is a type of singing that originated from rural Dinaric mountain region. It is most commonly found in the regions of Herzegovina and Dalmatia, but it can also be found to an

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Gangsta rap

Gangsta rap (also spelled gangster rap), initially called reality rap, is a subgenre of hip-hop that conveys the culture, values, and experiences of urban gangs and street hustlers, frequently

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Garage house

Garage house (originally known as "garage"; local terms include "New York house" and New Jersey sound) is an electronic dance music style The genre was popular in the 1980s in the United States and

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Garage punk (fusion genre)

Garage punk is a rock music genre combining the influences of garage rock, punk rock, and often other genres; the genre took shape in the indie rock underground between the late 1980s and early

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Garage rock

Garage rock (sometimes called garage punk or 60s punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most commonly in the United States and Canada, and has

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Garba (dance)

Garba is an Indian folk dance. It is a form of circle and social dance originating from Gujarat, and played across the Indian diaspora at festivals and other events. Garba is traditionally danced by

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Garifuna music

Garifuna music is an ethnic music and dance with African, Arawak, and Kalinago elements, originating with the Afro-Indigenous Garifuna people from Central America and Saint Vincent and the

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Għana (folk music)

Għana ( ) is a type of traditional folk music from Malta. Għana has two literal meanings. The first is richness, wealth and prosperity; the second is associated with singing, verse, rhyme and even

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