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20th century classical music
20th century classical music was extremely varied and thus there was no dominant style. However, a salient feature during this classical music time period was the increased use of dissonance. Because of this, the 20th century is sometimes called the "Dissonant Period" of classical music, because...
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Neoromanticism
In North American classical music and European classical music, neoromanticism is a style identified by the extended tonality that flourished during the late Romantic era, as well as a frank expression of emotional sentiment equally evocative of the...
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Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism in music was a 20th century development, particularly popular in the period between the two World Wars, in which composers drew inspiration from music of the 18th century, though some of the inspiring canon was drawn as much from the...
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- Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra ,
- Winds Devouring Men ,
- Across Two Oceans ,
- Requiem for a Dream
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Avant-garde
Avant-garde (French pronunciation: [avɑ̃ɡaʁd]) means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
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- The Velvet Underground and Nico ,
- The Voice of the Turtle ,
- You're the Guy I Want To Share My Money With ,
- The Big Eyeball in the Sky
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Serialism
In music, serialism is not only a technique, method (Griffiths 2001, 116), "highly specialized technique" (Wörner 1973, 196), or "way" (Whittall 2008, 1) of composition, but also "a philosophy of life (Weltanschauung), a way of relating the human...
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Twelve-tone technique
Twelve-tone technique (also dodecaphony, and in British usage, twelve-note composition) is a method of musical composition devised by Arnold Schoenberg. The technique is a means of ensuring that all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are sounded as...
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Atonal music
Atonality in its broadest sense describes music that lacks a tonal center, or key. Atonality in this sense usually describes compositions written from about 1908 to the present day where a hierarchy of pitches focusing on a single, central tone is...
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Electronic art music
Electronic art music refers to those forms of electronic music that fall within the general category of art music. The term encompasses a range of experimental music forms, both historical and contemporary, created by means of electronic instrument...
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- Les Saisons ,
- Musica Elettronica - Computer Music ,
- Klangfelder ,
- Steirischer Herbst: Ferrero-Neuwirth-Ruhm
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Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.
It can be reasonably argued that ambient music has roots that...
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Minimalist music
Minimalist music is an originally American genre of experimental or Downtown music named in the 1960s based mostly in consonant harmony, steady pulse (if not immobile drones), stasis and slow transformation, and often reiteration of musical phrases...
