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Genres and styles whose names start with SY.

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Symphonic black metal

Symphonic black metal is a subgenre of black metal that emerged in the 1990s and incorporates symphonic and orchestral

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Symphonic metal

Symphonic metal is a cross-genre style designation for the symphonic subsets of heavy metal music subgenres. It is used to denote any metal band that makes use of symphonic or orchestral elements.

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Symphonic music in Iran

Symphonic music in Iran encompasses Iranian musical pieces composed in the symphonic style. In addition to instrumental compositions, some of Iran's symphonic pieces are based on the country's folk

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Symphonic poem

A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music, usually in a single continuous movement, which illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, short story, novel, painting, landscape, or

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Symphony

A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often for orchestra. Although the term has had many meanings from its origins in the ancient Greek era, by the late 18th

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop ) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was

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Synthwave

Synthwave (also called retrowave, or futuresynth ) is an electronic music microgenre that is based predominantly on the music associated with the soundtracks of action, science fiction, and horror

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Syriac chant

Syrian chant is one of the oldest Christian chants in the world. Due to the lack of information concerning early musical manuscripts, it is conjectural to what extent the modern repertoire reflects

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Syriac sacral music

Syriac sacral music is music in the Syriac language as used in the liturgy of Syriac Christianity. Historically it is best known from and important for its part in the development of Christian sacred

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