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  2. Postmodern music - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. List of postmodernist composers - Wikipedia

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  4. Postmodernism - Wikipedia

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    Across musical traditions, postmodernism can be identified through several core characteristics: genre mixing; irony, humor, and self-parody: "surface" exploration with less concern for formal structure than in modernist approaches; and a return to tonality. [113]

  5. Category:Postmodern music - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Postmodern music" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  6. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured song". Originally used by medieval music theorists, it refers to polyphonic song with exactly measured notes and is used in contrast to cantus planus. [3] [4] capo 1. capo (short for capotasto: "nut") : A key-changing device for stringed instruments (e.g. guitars and banjos)

  7. List of music genres and styles - Wikipedia

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    Incidental music or music for stage and screen: music written for the score of a film, play, musicals, or other spheres, such as filmi, video game music, music hall songs and showtunes and others; Independent music. Multi-instrumentalist. A cappella; Bassist; Drummer. Percussion. Found object (music) Guitarist; Pianist. Keyboardist; One-man ...

  8. Neoconservative postmodernism - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. Post-punk - Wikipedia

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    Post-punk (originally called new musick) [2] is a broad genre of music that emerged in 1977 in the wake of punk rock.Post-punk musicians departed from punk's fundamental elements and raw simplicity, instead adopting a broader, more experimental approach that encompassed a variety of avant-garde sensibilities and non-rock influences.