Postmodern music

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. Postmodernists question the tight definitions and categories of academic disciplines, which they regard simply as the remnants of modernity.

Postmodernism
Preceded by Modernism
Postmodernity
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Major eras of
Western classical music
Early music
Medieval c. 500–1400
Transition to Renaissance
Renaissance c. 1400–1600
Transition to Baroque
Common practice period
Baroque c. 1600–1750
Transition to Classical
Classical c. 1730–1820
Transition to Romantic
Romantic c. 1800–1910
Transition to Modernism
Neue Musik
Modernism c. 1890–1975
Transition to Postmodernism
Postmodernism from c. 1960
Contemporary from c. 1945
 • 20th-century
 • 21st-century
Modernism . Postmodern music . Contemporary classical music
Other topics: Classical music
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