What are the characteristics of modern music?


there have numerous different schools of modern music there have been in various other art forms. few of more important ones:

2nd viennesse school/ 12-tone serialism - dissonant music uses 12 tones in systematic method. see berg, webern, schoenberg

futurism - music rejects past. see nancarrow, russolo.

neo-classicism - music puts modern take on classical aesthetics, see late stravinksy.

chance/aleotory - music based on dice rolls, randomness, ching etc. see john cage, xenakis.

minimalism - music based on extreme use of repetition, or quasi tonal themes. see riech, glass

new complexity - music complex or arcane structures, rhythms, explores new timbres etc. see ferneyhough, finnissy.



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