Nau'in kida yanki ne na yau da kullun wanda ke nuna wasu wakokin kida kamar na al'adar raba gari ko tsarin taron, ko kuma wanda mata zasu ke banta suyi a lokacin buku kuwa ko lokacin sallah a musulun ce. Shi ne da za a bambanta daga m siffar da kuma m style, ko da yake a yi da wadannan sharuddan wani lokaci ana amfani interchangeably, Za'a iya raba kiɗa zuwa nau'o'i daban-daban ta hanyoyi daban-daban, kamar cikin kiɗan da aka fi sani da kiɗan fasaha, ko kiɗan addini da kiɗan duniya . Yanayin fasaha na kiɗa yana nufin cewa waɗannan rabe-raben galibi suna da ma'ana da rikice-rikice, kuma wasu nau'ikan na iya cikawa. Ma'anar ilimi game da kalmar jinsi kanta ya bambanta. A cikin littafinsa Form in Tonal Music, Douglass M. Green ya bambance tsakanin jinsi da sifa . Ya jera madrigal, motet, canzona, ricercar, da rawa a matsayin misalai na jinsi daga lokacin Renaissance . Don kara bayyana ma'anar jinsi, Green ya rubuta, "Opet na Beethoven. 61 da Mendelssohn's Op.