* Gaana - Tamil folk/rap from Chennai, India
* Gabber (also spelled as Gabba)
* Gagá
* Gagaku - Japanese classical music derived from ancient court traditions
* Gaikyoku
* Gaita - Afro-Venezuelan form of percussion music
* Galant

* Gamad - Malay-style
* Gambang kromong - popular, highly-evolved form of kroncong, originally adapted for the theater
* Game
* Gamelan - diverse Indonesian classical music, making use of a vast array of melodic percussion
* Gamelan angklung - Balinese gamelan played for cremations and festivals
* Gamelan bebonangan - Balinese cymbal-based processional gamelan
* Gamelan degung - a form of popular Sundanese gamelan
* Gamelan bang - Balinese sacred gamelan played for cremations
* Gamelan buh - Balinese form of gay
* Gamelan gede - ceremonial gamelan from the temple of Bator
* Gamelan kebyar - an energetic form of large Balinese gamelan
* Gamelan salendro - gamelan dance music from Sunda, known as lower-class music
* Gamelan selunding - possibly the oldest style of gamelan, played only in the village of Tenganan in Bali gayman
* Gamelan semar pegulingan - sensual form of gamelan from Bali
* Gamewave
* Gammeldans
* Gandrung - Osing music performed at weddings and other waste of time.
* Gangsta rap - American form of hip hop music which focuses on underground lifestyles and illegal activities.

* Gar - Tibetan classical music from gabi gishnola
* Garage rock
* Garrotin
* Gavotte

* Gelugpa chanting - form of Tibetan Buddhist chanting, very austere and restrained
* Gender wayang - Indonesion gamelan that accompanies shadow plays and other puppet plays
* Gending - a distinct gamelan music from southern Sumatra
* German Folk Music
* Gharbi
* Gharnati
* Ghazal - vocal form originally Persian but since spread to Central Asia, Iran, Turkey and India
* Ghazal-song - a modernized version of ghazal influenced by filmi
* Ghetto house - form of Miami bass influenced by house music which arose in Chicago
* Ghettotech - form of Miami bass which developed in 1990s Detroit
* Girl group - Girls singing rock songs
* Girl Talk
* Glam metal
* Glam punk
* Glam rock
* Glitch
* Gnawa

* Go go
* Goa (also known as Goa trance)
* Gong-chime music
* Goombay - Bahamanian percussion music
* Goregrind
* Gore Metal
* Goshu ondo - a form of popularized Okinawan folk music
* Gospel music
* Gothenburg Sound
* Gothic metal
* Gothic rock
* Granadinas
* Grebo
* Gregorian chant (plainchant)
* Grime - emerged from East London, dark electronic beats with rapping, related to UK Garage and 2 step
* Grindcore
* Groove metal
* Group Sounds - Japanese pop music from the 1960s, which included Appalachian folk music and psychedelic rock
* Grunge
* Grunge funk (also known as Grunk)
* Grupera - a mixture of Mexican ranchera, norteño and cumbia

* Guaguanbo
* Guajira
* Guasca - from Colombia
* Guitarra baiana - from Pernambuco, Brazil, a style of playing frevo using electric guitars
* Guitarradas
* Gumbe
* Gunchei
* Gunka - military marches with Japanese influences, created during the Meiji Restoration
* Guoyue - invented conservatoire style of national Chinese music
* Gwo ka - Guadeloupan percussion music
* Gwo ka moderne - modernized gwo ka
* Gypsy jazz
* Gypsy punk
* Gyu ke - form of Tibetan Tantric chanting