Avant-garde music is a subjective term that can be used in different ways. In a popular, large sense it refers to any popular music which is thought to be ahead of its time, e. g. 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. Modernism in music is characterized by a desire for or belief in progress and Science, Surrealism, anti-romanticism Political Advocacy, general Art music (or serious music or erudite music) as defined by Jacques Siron is an umbrella term generally used to refer to musical traditions implying advanced structural WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section --> Anton Webern (December 3 1883 &ndash September 15 1945 was an Austrian Composer [2] In the 1950s the term avant-garde music was mostly associated with serial music. In Music, serialism is a technique for composition that uses sets to describe musical elements, and allows the manipulation of those [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 the tonal language. Experimental music is a term introduced by composer John Cage in 1955 Tonality is a system of Music in which specific hierarchical pitch relationships are based on a key "center" or tonic. [2]
See also
- Avant-progressive rock
- Computer music
- Electronic music
- Glitch
- Minimalism
- 20th century classical music
- Contemporary music
- Musique concrète
- Experimental rock
- Art rock
- Avant-garde jazz
- Avant-garde metal
- Progressive metal
References
- ^ a b Paul Griffiths "Modern Music: The Avant Garde since 1945" in Music Educators Journal, Vol. Avant-progressive rock is a style of Music based on rock music that explores unconventional territory often incorporating non-standard Chord progressions Computer music is a term that was originally used within academia to describe a field of study relating to the applications of Computing technology in music composition Electronic music is music that employs Electronic musical instruments and Electronic Music technology in its production Glitch is a term used to describe a genre of experimental Electronic music that emerged in the mid to late 1990s Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design especially Visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features At the turn of the 20th century classical music was characteristically late Romantic in style while at the same time the Impressionist movement spearheaded by Claude Debussy In the broadest and popular sense Contemporary music is any music being written in the present day Musique concrète ( French; literally "concrete music" is a style of Avant-garde music that relies on recorded sounds including natural Experimental rock or avant-garde rock is a type of music based on rock which experiments with the basic elements of the genre and/or which pushes the boundaries Art rock is a term describing a subgenre of Rock music that tends to have "experimental or avant-garde influences" and emphasizes "novel sonic texture Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz) is a style of music and Improvisation that combines Avant-garde Art music and composition with Avant-garde metal or experimental metal is a subgenre of Heavy metal music characterised by the use of innovative Avant-garde elements large-scale Progressive metal (often referred to simply as prog metal) is a sub-genre of Heavy metal music which blends the powerful guitar-driven sound of metal with the complex 68, No. 4 (Dec. , 1981), pp. 63-64
- ^ a b Du Noyer, Paul (ed. ) (2003), "Contemporary" inThe Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music. Flame Tree. p. 272. ISBN 1-9040-4170-1
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