Across film scores, jazz clubs, concert halls and video game soundtracks, the classical music of the 21st century incorporates styles and influences from all that came before it, including minimalism, Romantic music, choral and religious masses, electronics, and much more.

Music is like a melting pot of genres. There are countless genres and sub-genres, encompassing rock, jazz, rap, and so much more. Let’s explore the world of sounds and styles, as we delve into the top 35 types of music. Let’s get right into it!

Some examples that just touch the surface might include: 1-bit Symphony by Tristan Perich. Elsewhere is a Negative Mirror, Part 1 by Per Bloland. Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers by Annie Gosfield. Ecstatic Waters by Steven Bryant. Tourmaline by Alexandra Gardner. FONO by Angelica Negron. Rusty Air in Carolina by Mason Bates.

In music, modernism is an aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that led to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic, and ...