• Middle Ages:Music consisting of polyphonic and monophonic music of the fifth to fifteenth century are classified as Middle Ages music.

• Renaissance:Music created in 1500 to 16th century are classified as Renaissance music.
  

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• Baroque:Music created from 16th century to 1800 are termed as Baroque music
• Classical: Musics of 18th century to 19th century are called classical music.
• Romantic: Music composed from the early 19th century to about 1900.
• 20th century:20th century music has a wide classification of music.Music of this era has under gone many experimental changes which varies greatly from traditional music.
• Folk:the songs and music accepted from old generation to newer ones is called folk song.
• Grind core:music effected by metal and punk featuring strong drumming high tempo song with low tuned guitar.
• Heavy metal: As the name suggests it mostly uses a lot of electric instrument and gadgets.It has a very high tempo music with added blends form almost all genre.It also can be called as a distorted form of blended rock and pop.

• Punk:sub genre of rock music introduced in the United state of America,UK,Australia in between 1974 and 1976 is classified as punk music.the most famous punk rock band in 2009 was Green day.

• Pop:Pop music refer to popular music.But this wide definition has now been classified as a music which is catchy and melodious.it is considered to have been started in 20th century along with rock music genre.The Beatles are considered as the promoter of pop music genre.

• Rap music and hip hop:This is one of the newest genre of music originated from urban areas.This genre developed with the end of Vietnam war in America.

• Jazz: Jazz music genre is considered to be originatedin African American communities at the starting of 20th century.

• Electronic music:Electronic music is developed by the use of electrical instrument and electronic technology.It mostly focuses in the dance music and club music.

• Jingle: Jingle music is a type of electronic dance music which popped up in late 1980s. This genre is characterized by fest breaks and bass line.

• Reggae:Originated in Jamaica in 1960s reggae music genre in broad sense refer to most type of music in Jamaica.The reggae music genre originated following the ska and rock steady.Reggae music is identified by accents on off-beat.This genre song wording relates to love sexuality peace injustice poverty and other sociopolitical problems.