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MUSIC 
Postmodern music is either music of the postmodern era, or music that 
follows aesthetic and philosophical trends of postmodernism. As the 
name suggests, the postmodernist movement formed partly in reaction 
to the ideals of the modernist. Because of this, Postmodern music is 
mostly defined in opposition to modernist music, and a work can either 
be modernist, or postmodern, but not both. Jonathan Kramer posits 
the idea (following Umberto Eco and Jean-François Lyotard) that 
postmodernism (including musical postmodernism) is less a surface 
style or historical period (i.e., condition) than an attitude. 
The postmodern impulse in classical music arose in the 1960s with the 
advent of musical minimalism. Composers such as Terry Riley, Henryk 
Górecki,Bradley Joseph, John Adams, George Crumb, Steve 
Reich, Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, and Lou Harrison reacted to the 
perceived elitism and dissonant sound of atonal academic modernism 
by producing music with simple textures and relatively consonant 
harmonies, whilst others, most notably John Cage challenged the 
prevailing Narratives of beauty and objectivity common to Modernism. 
Some composers have been openly influenced by popular music and 
world ethnic musical traditions. 
Postmodern Classical music as well is not a musical style, but rather 
refers to music of the postmodern era. It bears the same relationship 
to postmodernist music that postmodernity bears to postmodernism. 
Postmodern music, on the other hand, shares characteristics 
with postmodernist art—that is, art that comes after and 
reacts against modernism ). 
Though representing a general return to certain notions of music-making that are often considered to be 
classical or romantic, not all postmodern composers 
have eschewed the experimentalist or academic 
tenets of modernism. The works of Dutch 
composer Louis Andriessen, for example, exhibit 
experimentalist preoccupation that is decidedly anti - 
romantic. Eclecticism and freedom of expression, in 
reaction to the rigidity and aesthetic limit ations of 
modernism, are the hallmarks of the postmodern 
influence in musical composition. 
Polish composer 
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 
29 September 2014

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20 post modernism ( music)

  • 1. MUSIC Postmodern music is either music of the postmodern era, or music that follows aesthetic and philosophical trends of postmodernism. As the name suggests, the postmodernist movement formed partly in reaction to the ideals of the modernist. Because of this, Postmodern music is mostly defined in opposition to modernist music, and a work can either be modernist, or postmodern, but not both. Jonathan Kramer posits the idea (following Umberto Eco and Jean-François Lyotard) that postmodernism (including musical postmodernism) is less a surface style or historical period (i.e., condition) than an attitude. The postmodern impulse in classical music arose in the 1960s with the advent of musical minimalism. Composers such as Terry Riley, Henryk Górecki,Bradley Joseph, John Adams, George Crumb, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, and Lou Harrison reacted to the perceived elitism and dissonant sound of atonal academic modernism by producing music with simple textures and relatively consonant harmonies, whilst others, most notably John Cage challenged the prevailing Narratives of beauty and objectivity common to Modernism. Some composers have been openly influenced by popular music and world ethnic musical traditions. Postmodern Classical music as well is not a musical style, but rather refers to music of the postmodern era. It bears the same relationship to postmodernist music that postmodernity bears to postmodernism. Postmodern music, on the other hand, shares characteristics with postmodernist art—that is, art that comes after and reacts against modernism ). Though representing a general return to certain notions of music-making that are often considered to be classical or romantic, not all postmodern composers have eschewed the experimentalist or academic tenets of modernism. The works of Dutch composer Louis Andriessen, for example, exhibit experimentalist preoccupation that is decidedly anti - romantic. Eclecticism and freedom of expression, in reaction to the rigidity and aesthetic limit ations of modernism, are the hallmarks of the postmodern influence in musical composition. Polish composer Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 29 September 2014