FPA 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Postminimalism, Erhu, Synesthesia

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The current trend in music seems to be: continuation of the postmodern aesthetic. An acceptance of all styles, including modernism and popular culture. Continued exploration of modernism by both older and younger generations. There is also new music appearing from a generation of composers born around the beginning of the 1960s. This music is understood by young audiences and even enjoyed by conventional classical music audiences. When these composers (born in the 1960s) arrived on the music scene, all the big battles of the. Minimalism was becoming a thing of the past. Previously, the rifts between popular music and serious composers caused divisions between high and low art; eventual reconciliation occurred through: Outright rebellion - e. g. the minimalists rejecting the serialists. A kind of curiosity seeking - e. g. pop musicians loving classical music because they like it or because they wanted ideas. Cheerful slumming - e. g. avant-garde composer luciano berio arranging beatle songs for his wife.

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