Avant-garde music is a term used to characterize music which is thought to be ahead of its time, i.e. containing innovative elements or fusing different genres.
Historically speaking, musicologists primarily use the term "avant-garde music" for the radical, post-1945 tendencies of a modernist style in several genres of art music[1] after the death of Anton Webern in 1945.[2] In the 1950s the term avant-garde music was mostly associated with serial music.[1]
Today the term may be used to refer to any other post-1945 tendency of modernist music not definable as experimental music, though sometimes including a type of experimental music characterized by the rejection of tonality.[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b
Griffiths, Paul , "Modern Music: The Avant Garde since 1945" in Music Educators Journal, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Dec., 1981), pp. 63-64 - ^ a b Du Noyer, Paul (ed.) (2003), "Contemporary" in the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music. Flame Tree.p.272. ISBN 1-9040-4170-1
|
|||||||||||||||||
 |
This music-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
