* Fado - Portuguese roots-based popular music
* Falak - Tajik folk music
* Fandango - Spanish dance music
* Farruca - a genre of flamenco
* Filk - modern, science fiction-oriented music
* Film scores
* Filmi - Indian film music
* Filmi-ghazal - filmi based on Hindustani ghazal
* Finger-style
* Fjatpangarri - Aboriginal Australian music local to Yirrbala
* Flamenco - dance music of Andalusia, Spain
* Flower power
* Foaie verde - classical form of Romanian doina
* Fofa
* Folk metal
* Folk music
* Folk pop
* Folk punk
* Folk rock
* Folktronica
* Forró - extremely popular music of Northeastern Brazil

* Franco-country
* Freakbeat
* Freak-folk
* Free improvisation - freeform musical improvisation
* Free jazz - improvised 1960s jazz
* Free music
* Freestyle
* Freestyle house - a cross-culture mix of hip-hop/electro/house/pop
* Freetekno
* Frenchcore - exists of fast and dark beats mostly without a melody. It doesn't have to be made in France though.
* Frevo - folk music from Recife, Brazil
* Fricote - dance music from Salvador, Brazil

* Fuji - Yoruba vocal and percussion music
* Fulia - Afro-Venezuelan percussion music
* Full On
* Funaná
* Funeral doom - an extremely slow version of doom metal, most commonly made at the "pace of a funeral march"
* Funk - a bass-heavy outgrowth of soul music
* Funkcore
* Funk metal - 1980s combination of funk, heavy metal and punk rock
* Funk rock
* Funky house - considered a subgenre of UK Garage
* Furniture music - Erik Satie's invention of Background music
* Fusion jazz - mixture of rock and jazz