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Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms. At the beginning of the 20th century, composers of classical music were experimenting with an increasingly dissonant pitch language, which sometimes yielded atonal pieces. Following World War I, as a backlash against what… More >>

Contemporary classical music: Modernism , Electroacoustic music, Musique concrete, Experimental music, Atonality, Minimalist music, Postmodern … Sound art, 20th- century classical music

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