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Pagode is a Brazilian style of music which originated in the Rio de Janeiro region as a subgenre of Samba. Pagode originally meant a celebration with lots of food, music and dance.

The timbral aspects of guqin technique are unparalleled in stringed instruments of the world. With over 20 different types of right hand plucking techniques and almost as many left hand fingering techniques, the potential for timbral contrasts between notes is immense. When listening to guqin music, the appreciation of timbral contrast is traditionally one of the most important aspects of the music. Such appreciation of contrast can happen locally from one note to the next or structurally - appreciating different sections of the music set in different timbral styles. Such appreciation for timbre on this level in Western music has only been present since the beginning of the 20th century in classical music.

Simplistic and reductive at times (jarringly so), this book is a great introductory guide for exploring Zappa's compositional strategies, styles, and objectives.

Viewing the Miles Davis composition All Blues through the lens of ImproViz illustrates the contrasting melodic and harmonic styles of three musicians: Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane.

The name Rembetika (also known as Rembetiko, Rebetika, and Rebetiko) is used to describe the musical styles of mainland Greece and the music of ... Rembetika was also initially a man's form of music. ...

Habib Koité & Bamada Habib comes from a noble line of Khassonké griots, traditional troubadors who provide wit, wisdom and musical entertainment at social gatherings and special events. Habib grew up surrounded by seventeen brothers and sisters, and developed his unique guitar style accompanying his griot mother. He inherited his passion for music from his paternal grandfather who played the kamele n'goni, a traditional four-stringed instrument associated with hunters from the Wassolou region of Mali. "Nobody really taught me to sing or to play the guitar," explains Habib, "I watched my parents, and it washed off on me."

St. Germain is the stage name of Ludovic Navarre, a French musician whose style merges jazzy house music with acid jazz. Bob Marley, Toots and The Maytals, Miles Davis and Kool & The Gang are among Ludovic's early influences.

A few fans may find Latin roots-pop pioneer Lila Downs' return to old-fashioned, romantic ranchera music to be a retrograde move, but her commanding presence and the astonishing skill and economy with which she embellishes these old-school Mexican ballads with modern rock, electronica and even a tasteful dash of hip-hop will blow your mind, if you give it a close listen. Similarly, she weaves in the rich rhythms of Cuban son and Central American cumbia, reconciling and uniting several strands of Latin American popular music. The repertoire blends striking originals with classics from Jose Alfredo Jimenez, while Downs' dark, husky vocals give more than a mild nod towards the great Mexican diva, Lola Beltran, while Tex-Mex accordionist Flaco Jimenez anchors the album in a solid border vibe. You have to be willing to get into the style (and not everyone is, including plenty of folks who listen to other kinds of Latin American music...) But if you give it a chance, this is a pretty cool album, particularly how it points the way to a canny revitalization and modernization of one of the hemisphere's liveliest and most musically conservative genres. Oh, and Downs' old fans will not be disappointed: she's as authoritative, innovative and charismatic here as on anything she's done.

"Old Country" music; music with origins in the Ottoman Empire, once fabled as the borderlands of the East and the West. In a true collage of Carpathian, Jewish, Rumanian and Ottoman styles, typical suites contain dances from Moldavia and Bessarabia; Jewis

Traditional Sephardi Ladino song sung by Yasmin Levy in Bulería style.

Okay Temiz is an accomplished musician who plays all sorts of percussion instruments that he has either collected or crafted over the years in a style of his own and can skillfully transform even the simplest ryhthms into a whole new set of sounds.

Great bravery in linking traditional Turkish styles with western music, tackling subjects that challenged authorities. In 1970s, was 1stTurkish woman to write + publicly perform her own songs!

Wu Zhaoji 吳兆基 字湘泉 1908-1997 Hunan. Transmitter of the Wu style.

American qin player/scholar John Thompson advocates for both silk + nylon-wrapped metal strings for different styles of qin music (much like classical (nylon-string) and steel-string guitar music).

Globe trot non-stop from dance to trance in contempo percussive fusion mixes of ancient instruments, kaleidoscopic musical styles from Africa, New York's underground, Europe and the Middle East

Article making distinctions between salsa-casino and other styles of salsa in Cuba.

St. Germain is the stage name of Ludovic Navarre, a French musician whose style merges jazzy house music with acid jazz. Bob Marley, Toots and The Maytals, Miles Davis and Kool & The Gang are among Ludovic's early influences.

Yambu is a style of rumba characterized by it's slow pace and tempo; highly sensual and elegant at the same time, the rhythm "imitates" (or matches) the movements of older people's dancing.

Ethnomusicologist Josef Bomback discusses the styles and instruments of Chinese music, contemporary, classical, folkloric, and traditional.

"(Harrington) utilized the entire ensemble in an alternately dark and rhythmic collage of styles, textures and bits and pieces from all over the world." - R.L. Ragsdale, Riverfront Times, St. Louis, Mo. Electronic music that is tonal and intensely contrapuntal, inspired by New Orleans and classical music traditions. "Harrington is the most intriguing new figure I've discovered on the Web..." Kyle Gann, Village Voice, July 7, 1999