About Postmodern music
Postmodern music is a music genre in the 1960s. It is usually classed as a form of classical music and postmodern art.
Postmodern music has given rise to 2 subgenres on this site, such as Sonorism and New Simplicity.
From Wikipedia
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.
Genre family tree
Parent genres (↑) and subgenres (↓) of Postmodern music.
- ↑ classical music
- ↑ postmodern art
- ↓ Sonorism
- ↓ New Simplicity
Related genres
Opera
1600s · Europe
Chamber music
form of classical music composed for a small group of instruments
Sonata
1600s · Europe
Baroque music
1600s
Cantata
1600s
Fugue
contrapuntal musical form based on a subject that recurs in imitation
Madrigal
secular vocal music composition of the Renaissance and early Baroque e
Overture
instrumental introduction to any musical piece
Frequently asked questions
What is Postmodern music?
Postmodern music is a music genre in the 1960s. It is usually classed as a form of classical music and postmodern art.
Where and when did Postmodern music originate?
Postmodern music originated in the 1960s.