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Genres and styles whose names start with SA.

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Saang

Saang, also known as Swang (meaning "imitation") or Svang, is a popular folk dance–theatre form and a traditional style of storytelling in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and the Malwa region of

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Sacred concerto

Sacred concerto (German: , plural: , ) is a 17th-century genre of sacred music, characterized as settings of religious texts requiring both vocal soloists and obbligato instrumental forces for

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Sacred Harp

Sacred Harp singing is a tradition of sacred choral music which developed in New England and perpetuated in the American South. The name is derived from The Sacred Harp, a historically important

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Sacred jazz

Sacred jazz is jazz composed and performed with religious

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Sacred Steel (musical tradition)

Sacred Steel is a musical style and African-American gospel tradition that features the steel guitar as part of religious services. The style developed in a group of related Pentecostal churches in

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Sadra (music)

Sadra (also spelled Sadarang or Shadra) is a vocal genre of Hindustani classical music from the Indian subcontinent. It represents a transitional form between the ancient Dhrupad and the more

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Saeta (flamenco)

The saeta () is a revered form of Andalusian religious song, whose form and style have evolved over many centuries. Saetas evoke strong emotion and are sung most often during public processions. The

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Saibara

() is a genre of accompanied vocal Japanese court music that existed during the Heian period in the Nara and Kyoto regions. It draws from traditional folk music () of the Nara period and is

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Saint Thomas Christian music

Saint Thomas Christian music refers to the musical traditions of the Saint Thomas Christian community of Kerala, India. It is chiefly liturgical and is derived from ancient Syriac Christian music

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Sakara music

Sakara music is a form of popular Nigerian music based in the traditions of Yoruba music. It generally takes the form of praise songs that are accompanied by traditional Yoruba instruments such as

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Salegy

Salegy () is a popular music genre from Madagascar. Originating as a Sub-Saharan African folk music style in the northwestern coastal areas of Madagascar, modern salegy is the genre of Malagasy music

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Salon music

Salon music is a category of Western classical music cultivated in 19th-century Europe and intended primarily for performance in private domestic and social gatherings known as salons, rather than in

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Salsa music

Salsa is a style of dance music mainly influenced by Caribbean traditions and music from Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and other countries such as Colombia and Venezuela, where african

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Salsa romántica

Salsa romántica (Spanish for Romantic Salsa, ) is a soft form of salsa music that emerged between the mid-1980s and early 1990s in New York City, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. It has been

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Sama'i

Sama'i (also known as usul semai) is a vocal piece of Ottoman Turkish music composed in meter. This form and meter (usul in Turkish) is often confused with the completely different saz semaisi, an

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Samba

Samba () is a broad term for many of the rhythms that compose the better known Brazilian music genres that originated in the Afro-Brazilian communities of Bahia in the late 19th century and early

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Samba de Gafieira

Samba de Gafieira (also called Gafieira) is a partner dance to various Brazilian samba musical rhythms. Unlike street and club forms of Brazilian samba, it evolved as a ballroom dance (dança de

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Samba funk

Samba funk is a musical subgenre that fuses Brazilian samba and American funk. It originated in the late 1960s by pianist Dom Salvador and the Brazilian band Grupo Abolição (which later gave rise to

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Samba reggae

Samba-reggae is a music genre from Bahia, Brazil. Samba reggae, as its name suggests, was originally derived as a blend of Brazilian samba with Jamaican reggae as typified by Bob

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Samba rock

Samba rock (also known as samba soul or confused with samba funk and sambalanço) is a Brazilian dance culture and music genre that fuses samba with rock, soul, and funk. It emerged from the dance

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Samba-canção

Samba-canção (; literally 'song samba') is, in its most common interpretation, a kind of Brazilian popular song with a slow-paced samba

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Samba-enredo

Samba-enredo, also known as samba de enredo, is a sub-genre of modern samba made specifically by a samba school for the festivities of Brazilian Carnival. It is a samba style that consists of a lyric

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Samba-sincopado

Samba-sincopado () is a subgenre of samba that emphasises the syncopation of the musical genre. It is also sometimes referred to as

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Sámi music

In traditional Sámi music songs (e.g. Kvad and Leudd songs ) and joiks are important musical expressions of the Sámi people and Sámi languages. The Sámi also use a variety of musical instruments,

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Sampledelia

Sampledelia (also called sampledelica) is sample-based music that uses samplers or similar technology to expand upon the recording methods of 1960s psychedelia. Sampledelia features "disorienting,

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Samul nori

() is a genre of Korean percussion music. It is a modern adaptation of traditional Korean musics, namely the ritual farming music nongak and Korean shamanic music muak, for the indoor stage. As per

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San Francisco sound

The San Francisco sound is rock music performed live and recorded by San Francisco–based rock groups of the mid-1960s to early 1970s. It was associated with the counterculture community in San

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Sanaa (music)

The sanâa or sanâa of Algiers (arabic: الصّنعة, ə-Ṣan'a) or simply the Andalusian, refers to the Algerian Arab-Andalusian classical repertoire of the school of Algiers, and which tradition relates to

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Sanedo

Sanedo () is a type of Gujarati folk music, popularised by Gujarati singer Maniraj

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Sangeet Natak

Sangeet Natak (Marathi for 'musical drama') is a form of drama which combines prose and poetry in the form of songs to convey the story, similar to musicals. They have played a vital role in the

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Sangini

Sangini (Nepali: संगिनी) is a particular type of song and dance perform by the Nepali womenfolk during the occasion of a religious festival Tihar and Teej. It originated in the hilly regions of Nepal

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Sangita

Sangita (Devanagari: , IAST: ), also spelled Samgita or Sangeeta, refers to "music and associated performance arts" in the Indian traditions. According to Guy Beck, the root "saṃ-" implies

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Sanjo (music)

Sanjo (), literally meaning 'scattered melodies', is a style of traditional Korean music, involving an instrumental solo accompanied by drumming on the janggu, an hourglass-shaped drum. The art of

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Sanjuanito

A Sanjuanito, Sanjuan, or San Juan is a type of Ecuadorian music and dance. Sanjuanitos are an indigenous form of music and folkloric dance associated with the Sierra, Ecuador's mountainous Andean

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Santé engagé

Santé engagé () is a genre of Mauritian music which consists of singing and rapping protest songs. It is a way to protest against political/social oppression and repression through music. The genre

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Santo Daime hymns

Sacred music and dance are fundamental to the Santo Daime religion. The earliest hymns are those of the founder, Raimundo Irineu Serra - 'Mestre Irineu'. While the rituals and music originated with a

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Sapphic pop

Sapphic pop is a term used to describe a particular subgenre of indie music and bedroom pop. The genre typically has female, often femme, singer-songwriters and will often feature lyrical themes such

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Sarabande

The sarabande (from ) is a dance in triple metre, or the music written for such a

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Sardana

The sardana (; plural sardanes in Catalan) is a Catalan musical genre typical of Catalan culture and danced in circle following a set of steps. The dance was originally from the Empordà region, but

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Sasanian music

Sasanian music encompasses the music of the Sasanian Empire, which existed from 224 to 651 CE. Many Sasanian Shahanshahs were enthusiastic supporters of music, including the founder of the empire

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Sass (music)

Sass (), or white belt hardcore, is a broadly-defined subgenre of post-hardcore that merges screamo with elements of dance-punk and post-punk. Characterized by erratic stage performances, flamboyant

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Satirical music

Satirical music describes music that employs satire or was described as such. It deals with themes of social, political, religious, cultural structures and provides commentary or criticism on them

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Savoy opera

Savoy opera was a style of comic opera that developed in Victorian England in the late 19th century, with W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan as the original and most successful practitioners. The name

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Sawani

Sawani is a genre of semi-classical singing, popular in the Bhojpuri region of Uttar Pradesh and

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Sawt (music)

Sawt ( / ALA-LC: Ṣawt; literally "voice"; also spelled sout or sowt) is a kind of popular music found in Kuwait and

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Saya (art form)

The saya is an Afro-Bolivian music and dance originating from the Yungas region. It is considered a key influence in the music of Bolivia. The term saya is of unknown origin, with some positing that

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