In the broadest and popular sense, contemporary music is any music being written in the present day. This could include any kind of present music. However in the strict historical and musicological terminology, the term Contemporary music exclusively refers to the modern forms of art music, this includes: The post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern (including serial music, Concrete music, experimental music, atonal music,etc.) In a more restricted sense it may only include the most recent forms of this music: Contemporary classical music (post-1975) (including post-modern music, Spectral music, minimalist music, etc.) |
An unique contemporary piece played by a soprano saxophone and two grand pianos - part1 An unique contemporary piece played by a soprano saxophone and two grand pianos - part2 Sequenza VIIb by Luciano Berio - Taimur Sullivan (soprano saxophone) live at the Open Ears Festival Daniel Kientzy - contemporary saxophonist |
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