Contemporary Classical Music - Categorization

Categorization

Generally "contemporary classical music" amounts to:

  • The modern forms of art music
    • The post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern
      (including serial music, electroacoustic music, musique concrète, experimental music, atonal music, minimalist music, etc.)
    • the post-1975 forms of this music
      (including post-modern music, Spectral music, post-minimalism, sound art, etc.)

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