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  2. Aesthetics of music - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetics of music is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of art, beauty and taste in music, and with the creation or appreciation of beauty in music. [1] In the pre-modern tradition, the aesthetics of music or musical aesthetics explored the mathematical and cosmological dimensions of rhythmic and harmonic organization.

  3. Modernism (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, modernism is an aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that led to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic, and rhythmic aspects of music, and changes in ...

  4. Philosophy of music - Wikipedia

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    In the pre-modern tradition, the aesthetics of music or musical aesthetics explored the mathematical and cosmological dimensions of rhythmic and harmonic organization. In the eighteenth century, focus shifted to the experience of hearing music, and thus to questions about its beauty and human enjoyment (plaisir and jouissance) of music.

  5. List of poetry groups and movements - Wikipedia

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    Romanticism stressed strong emotion, imagination, freedom within or even from classical notions of form in art, and the rejection of established social conventions. It stressed the importance of "nature" in language and celebrated the achievements of those perceived as heroic individuals and artists.

  6. Experimental music - Wikipedia

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    Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. [1] Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, institutionalized compositional, performing, and aesthetic conventions in music. [ 2 ]

  7. Avant-garde music - Wikipedia

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    Avant-garde music is music that is considered to be at the forefront of innovation in its field, with the term "avant-garde" implying a critique of existing aesthetic conventions, rejection of the status quo in favor of unique or original elements, and the idea of deliberately challenging or alienating audiences. [1]

  8. Aestheticism - Wikipedia

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    Aestheticism (also known as the aesthetic movement) was an art movement in the late 19th century that valued the appearance of literature, music, fonts and the arts over their functions. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to Aestheticism, art should be produced to be beautiful, rather than to teach a lesson , create a parallel , or perform another didactic ...

  9. List of classical and art music traditions - Wikipedia

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    At least 6th century AD (as Indian classical music), split from Carnatic music in the 16th and 17th centuries. [2] [4] Klasik: At least 6th century AD (as Indian and Hindustani classical music), split from Hindustani classical music c. 1860. [4] [5] The classical tradition of Afghanistan, ultimately a descendant of Hindustani classical music. [5]