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Music industry trade associations
Music industry trade associations are bodies such as ASCAP, BMI, and IFPI that lobby for copyright reform, collect and distribute royalties, and publish charts and market statistics.
Music Ka Maha Muqqabla
Music Ka Maha Muqqabla, titled Amul Music ka Maha Muqabla, was an Indian music reality competition on Star Plus in 2009, with six teams captained by playback singers.
Music Lessons
Music Lessons (Uroki muzyki, Уроки музыки) is a two-act drama by the Russian playwright Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, written in 1973 and staged by Roman Viktyuk in 1979.
Music Mela
Music Mela, later styled FACE Music Mela, is an annual music festival held in Islamabad since 2014, mostly at the Pakistan National Council of the Arts.
Music of Africa
Music of Africa covers traditional, religious, and popular musics across the continent: polyrhythm and call-and-response, griot praise singers, spirituals, highlife, Fela Kuti's Afrobeat, Afrobeats and amapiano, plus Agawu's scholarship. Distinct from African-American music.
Music of Attack on Titan
Music of Attack on Titan (進撃の巨人): anime soundtrack series composed by Hiroyuki Sawano (seasons 1–3) and Kohta Yamamoto with Sawano for The Final Season, released by Pony Canyon from 2013, with Linked Horizon and SiM theme songs.
Music of Brazil
Music of Brazil: the folk, popular, and art music of Brazil, formed from Portuguese, indigenous, and African roots; known for samba, bossa nova, choro, MPB, sertanejo, and Carnival's electric trios.
Music of China
Music of China (中国音乐), also called guoyue for its traditional strand, spans pentatonic modal theory, guqin and Nanyin UNESCO heritage, five traditional genres, and a modern conservatory and ethnomusicology sector dating to Wang Guangqi in the 1920s.
Music of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Music of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, soundtrack by Lorien Testard and Alice Duport-Percier for Sandfall's 2025 RPG; over eight hours, Billboard Classical No. 1, Game Awards Best Score, A Painted Symphony tour.
Music of Cowboy Bebop
Music of Cowboy Bebop: soundtrack of the 1998 anime Cowboy Bebop (カウボーイビバップ), composed by Yoko Kanno and performed by The Seatbelts. Jazz-centered score spanning blues, funk, and rock; opening theme Tank!; episodes titled after songs, called sessions.
Music of Cuba
Music of Cuba (música cubana): Spanish-African blended tradition behind son, rumba, danzón, mambo, and timba; son inscribed on UNESCO's intangible heritage list in December 2025, distinguishing Cuba from other Caribbean musical nations.
Music of Fantasia (1940 film)
Music of Fantasia (1940 film): eight classical works by Bach, Tchaikovsky, Dukas, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Ponchielli, Mussorgsky, and Schubert, performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski with Deems Taylor narrating, recorded in Disney and RCA's pioneering Fantasound stereo system.
Music of Final Fantasy XIV
Music of Final Fantasy XIV: the MMORPG's score, originally by Nobuo Uematsu (1.x) and led since the 2013 A Realm Reborn relaunch by sound director Masayoshi Soken, released as Blu-ray soundtrack albums, THE PRIMALS band records, and orchestral concerts.
Music of France
Music of France: the musical life of France from medieval Notre-Dame polyphony and Lully's Baroque orchestra to Debussy, Ravel, chanson, rap, and French Touch; today rap leads streaming at 42% and the recorded market reached €449 million in H1 2026.
Music of Game of Thrones
Music of Game of Thrones: the score and songs of HBO's fantasy series (2011–2019), composed by Ramin Djawadi, known for its cello-led main title, Wagnerian leitmotifs for houses and characters, and the Live Concert Experience tour.
Music of Germany
Music of Germany: the country's classical, popular, and electronic musical life. Key facts: 16.9 million music-makers, ~150 opera houses and orchestras, Kraftwerk and techno, €2.42 billion 2025 recorded-music market, GEMA distributing €1.15 billion.
Music of Grand Theft Auto V
Music of Grand Theft Auto V: the 2013 game's 240 licensed songs on 15 radio stations plus two talk channels, and its first-in-series dynamic score by Tangerine Dream, Woody Jackson, The Alchemist, and Oh No, arranged for album by DJ Shadow.
Music of India
Music of India covers Hindustani and Carnatic classical traditions built on raga and tala, oral guru-shishya transmission, ancient instrument classification from the Natya Shastra, and folk, devotional, and film music.
Music of Indonesia
Music of Indonesia is a vast collection of musical traditions, ranging from the metal-based Javanese gamelan to popular genres like Dangdut, and includes UNESCO-recognized forms.
Music of Ireland
Music of Ireland: traditional Irish music (ceol traidisiúnta), dance tunes, sessions, sean-nós song, regional styles, Comhaltas, Fleadh Cheoil, UNESCO-listed uilleann piping and harping, and a €1 billion music economy.
Music of Jamaica
Music of Jamaica: the island's musical traditions spanning mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, and dancehall, from 19th-century folk roots and sound systems to reggae's 2018 UNESCO inscription and global influence.
Music of Japan
Music of Japan, traditionally called hogaku, spans over a millennium, with court gagaku performed by the Imperial Household Agency and popular music known as J-pop.
Music of Kingdom Hearts
The Music of Kingdom Hearts, also known as Kingdom Hearts music, is the soundtrack of the Disney and Square Enix series, composed by Yoko Shimomura since 2002.
Music of Latin America
Music of Latin America: the region's music, born of indigenous, European, and African traditions. Covers colonial strands, samba, cumbia, son cubano and salsa, Nuevo Canto Latinoamericano, and its global influence.
Music of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Soundtrack of the 2013 PlatinumGames action game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, composed by Jamie Christopherson; heavy metal and electronic vocal boss songs with dynamic in-fight layering, over 200 million streams.
Music of Mexico
Music of Mexico: traditions and industry built on indigenous, Spanish, and African roots, spanning mariachi (UNESCO 2011), son jarocho, corrido, norteño, banda, and ranchera, with regional mexicano now a global streaming phenomenon and Mexico the 10th largest recorded music market.
Music of Minecraft
The music of Minecraft is the ambient soundtrack of Mojang's 2011 sandbox game, composed primarily by C418 and extended since 2020 by Lena Raine, Samuel Åberg, and Aaron Cherof.
Music of My Mind
Music of My Mind (1972) is Stevie Wonder's fourteenth studio album, his first under a Motown contract granting full creative control, self-played with TONTO synthesizer collaborators Cecil and Margouleff, opening his classic period and reaching No. 21 on Billboard.
Music of Neon Genesis Evangelion
Music of Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shirō Sagisu's score and theme songs for Hideaki Anno's 1995 anime and Rebuild films, including A Cruel Angel's Thesis, Fly Me to the Moon, classical quotations, and the King Records album discography.
Music of New Orleans
Music of New Orleans: the city's jazz, brass band, R&B, funk, gospel, and bounce traditions, rooted in Congo Square, Storyville, Buddy Bolden's 1895 band, second line parades, and a live-music economy of about 28,000 gigs a year.