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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 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 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 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 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.

Music of Nigeria

Music of Nigeria (Naija music, Nigerian music): traditional Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa and Niger Delta traditions plus highlife, juju, fuji, Fela Kuti's Afrobeat and modern Afrobeats, a Lagos-rooted scene with Billboard and Grammy recognition since 2022.

Music of South Africa

Music of South Africa: indigenous, colonial, and apartheid-era traditions (marabi, kwela, mbaqanga, isicathamiya, "Mbube"), plus post-1994 kwaito, gqom, and amapiano, now the country's leading global export.

Music of Spain

Music of Spain, also known as Spanish Music, is the body of classical, folk, and popular traditions in the Iberian country. It spans from medieval works to modern flamenco.

Music of Star Wars

Music of Star Wars: the orchestral scores of the franchise, chiefly John Williams's nine episodic scores from 1977 on, built on Wagnerian leitmotifs such as the Main Title, Force theme, and Imperial March, plus later composers like Göransson and Giacchino.

Music of The Bear

Music of The Bear covers the FX series' soundtrack: Christopher Storer and Josh Senior as hands-on supervisors, dad-rock and Chicago needle drops (Refused, Wilco, R.E.M., Taylor Swift), and the 2026 final-season original score by Christian Lundberg, produced by Hans Zimmer.

Music of The Lord of the Rings film series

The music of The Lord of the Rings film series is Howard Shore's orchestral score for Peter Jackson's trilogy of Tolkien adaptations, released from 2001 to 2003.

Music of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom

Music of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom, also called brony music, is fan-made music inspired by the 2010 show composed by Daniel Ingram. It began 2010–2011 with Eurobeat Brony, peaked 2011–2013, spans EDM to orchestral, and persists via compilations like Ponies at Dawn.

Music of the Philippines

Music of the Philippines (OPM, Pinoy pop, kundiman, kulintang): the archipelago's musical traditions in three layers, indigenous Asian, Spanish-European, and American-influenced, from gangsa and kulintang gong ensembles to UNESCO-recognized hudhud and darangen chants and contemporary indie and P-pop scenes.

Music of the Spheres (Coldplay album)

Music of the Spheres is Coldplay's ninth studio album, released 15 October 2021, produced by Max Martin, a 12-track sci-fi concept album with BTS and Selena Gomez, UK number one, Metacritic 55, followed by the Music of the Spheres World Tour.