Piero Scaruffi's
History of Avantgarde Music

[Concrete, Dadaism, Post-chamber, Electronic, Minimalism, World-music, Ambient, New-age, Post-jazz]

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Table Of Contents

The birth of the soundscape aesthetics

The Avantgarde

Post-modernism

Event Music

Christian Revival

Minimalism

Droning minimalism

Live Electronic Music

Computer Music

Event Music in the electronic age

The second generation of Minimalists

The voice

Collage and field recordings in the electronic age

New Age Music

Computer music in the age of the laptop

Collage music in the age of the sampler

Post-jazz music

Post-chamber music

The Ambient Avantgarde in the digital age

Glitch Music and Digital Minimalism

In Preparation

Appendix: Chronology of Events

Appendix: Selected works

Database of Contemporary Composers

Bibliography:
Cohn, Arthur: 20th Century Music in the Western Hemisphere (Lippincott, 1961)
Gentilucci, Armando: Guida all'Ascolto della Musica Contemporanea (Feltrinelli, 1990)
Griffiths, Paul: Modern Music - From Debussy to Boulez (Thames & HUdson, 1978)
Griffiths, Paul: Modern Music - The Avantgarde since 1945 (Harper & Row, 1981)
Griffiths, Paul: Encyclopedia of 20th Century Music (Thames & Hudson, 1986)
Holmes, Thomas: Electronic and Experimental Music (Scribner's Sons, 1985)
Prenderast, Mark: The Ambient Century (Bloomsbury, 2000)
Scaruffi, Piero: A History of Rock Music (iUniverse, 2003)
Schaeffer, John: New Sounds (Harper & Row, 1987)
TM, ®, Copyright © 2005 Piero Scaruffi. All rights reserved.