Carl Dahlhaus describes modernism as:
an obvious point of historical discontinuity ... The "breakthrough" of … See more

The term "modernism" (and the term "post-modern") has occasionally been applied to some genres of popular music, but not with any very clear definition.
For example, the cultural studies professor Andrew Go… See more

In the final decade leading up to the turn of the 20th century, the Romantic era in music had entered into its late period where great changes were occurring. Amongst the biggest changes were with the traditional tonal syste… See more

Impressionism was a movement among various composers in Western classical music from about 1890 to 1920, whose music focuses on mood and atmosphere. Just like Impressionism in painting and Impressioni… See more

The twelve-tone technique is a method of musical composition developed by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg where all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are sounded as often as one another in a piece of music while preve… See more

• List of modernist composers
• Abstractionism
• Avant-garde music
• Experimental music
• Expressionism… See more

• Written Tape Guides – The Contemporary Era, lectures by John Ronsheim (1927–1997), Antioch College See more