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Postmodern music is music in the art music tradition produced in the postmodern era. It also describes any music that follows aesthetical and philosophical trends of postmodernism . As an aesthetic movement it was formed partly in reaction to modernism but is not primarily defined as oppositional to modernist music .
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In music, neoconservative postmodernism is "a sort of 'postmodernism of reaction'", [1] which values "textual unity and organicism as totalizing musical structures" like "latter-day modernists". [2] Neoconservative modernism...critically engages modernism, but rejects it out of hand.
In addition to the use of pentatonics (for example in Préludes I, Les collines d'Anacapri) and whole-tone scales (for example in Préludes I, Voiles), Debussy made use of the salon music of the time. (for example, Préludes I, Minstrels) and harmonies borrowed from early jazz music (as in Children's Corner and Golliwogg's Cakewalk). Like Ravel ...
A threnody is a song or poem of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to the dead. Dedicated to the residents of Hiroshima killed and injured by the first-ever wartime usage of an atomic weapon , the composition won the Tribune Internationale des Compositeurs UNESCO prize that same year.
New sincerity (closely related to and sometimes described as synonymous with post-postmodernism) is a trend in music, aesthetics, literary fiction, film criticism, poetry, literary criticism and philosophy that generally describes creative works that expand upon and break away from concepts of postmodernist irony and cynicism.
The origin of sound collage can be traced back to the works of Biber's programmatic sonata Battalia (1673) and Mozart's Don Giovanni (1789), and certain passages in Mahler symphonies as collage, but the first fully developed collages occur in a few works by Charles Ives, whose piece Central Park in the Dark (1906) creates the feeling of a walk in the city by layering several distinct melodies ...