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Preface - Art MusicThe birth of the soundscape aestheticsThe AvantgardePost-modernismEvent MusicChristian RevivalMinimalismDroning minimalismElectronic MusicComputer MusicEvent Music in the electronic ageThe second generation of MinimalistsThe voiceCollage and field recordings in the electronic ageNew Age Music
Glitch Music and Digital Minimalism Digital Avantgarde
Appendix: Chronology of Events 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) Grubbs, David: Records Ruin the Landscape (Duke Univ Press, 2014) 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. |