Information about Contemporary Music
In the broadest and popular sense, Contemporary music is any music being written in the present day. This could include any kind of present music. However in the strict historical and musicological terminology, the term Contemporary music exclusively refers to:
- the post-1945 avant-garde/modern forms of art music after the death of Anton Webern[1] (including serial music,Concrete music,experimental music,etc...)
- Contemporary classical music (post-1975)[2] (including post-modern music,Spectral music,minimalist music,ect... )
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..... Click the link for more information.Avant-garde (pronounced /ɑvɑ̃ gɑʁd/) in French means "front guard", "advance guard", or "vanguard".
..... Click the link for more information.Modernism in music is characterized by a desire for or belief in progress and science, surrealism, anti-romanticism, political advocacy, general intellectualism, and/or a breaking with tradition or common practice — Ezra Pound's modernist slogan, "Make it new," as applied to
..... Click the link for more information.Art music (or serious music or sometimes erudite music) is an umbrella term generally used to refer to musical traditions implying advanced structural and theoretical considerations.
..... Click the link for more information.Anton Webern (December 3, 1883 – September 15, 1945) was an Austrian composer and conductor. He was a member of the Second Viennese School. As a student and significant follower of Arnold Schoenberg, he became one of the best-known proponents of the twelve-tone technique; in
..... Click the link for more information.citation, footnoting or external linking.For other uses of "serial or serialism", see Serial (disambiguation).In music, serialism
..... Click the link for more information.Musique concrète (French; literally, "concrete music"), is a style of avant-garde music that relies on natural environmental sounds and other non-inherently-musical noises to create music.
..... Click the link for more information.For experimental rock music, see .
Experimental music is a term introduced by composer John Cage in 1955. Cage defined "an experimental action is one the outcome of which is unforeseen" and he was specifically interested in completed works that
..... Click the link for more information.In the broadest sense, contemporary music is any music being written in the present day. Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to a period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism.
..... Click the link for more information.Postmodern music is both a musical style and a musical condition. As a musical style, postmodern music contains characteristics of postmodern art—that is, art after modernism (see Modernism in Music).
..... Click the link for more information.Spectral music (or spectralism) is a musical genre or movement originating in France in the 1970s featuring the use of sound, including timbre, pitch, and rhythm of individual sounds, as a model for composition, most often using computer analysis of sound wave components and
..... Click the link for more information.- For other uses, see Minimalism (disambiguation).
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