The genealogy of musical genres is the pattern of musical genres that have contributed to the development of new genres.
Evolution in musical instruments[1] in technology and in culture can influence the evolution of musical genres.
[2] Genealogical charts or family trees of musical genres show how new genres have emerged from existing genres and how multiple genres have contributed to a new genre.
Since music can be endlessly broken down into smaller and smaller categories, a genealogical chart will usually focus on one major genre and its different strains.
How these developed out of one another is shown in a genealogical chart, often with major figures or innovators of each subgenre.