Contemporary classical music topic

Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to a period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music from the death of Anton Webern (including serial music, Concrete music, experimental music, etc.) At the beginning of the 20th century, composers of classical music were experimenting with an increasingly dissonant pitch language, which sometimes... full article at wikipedia