1986/03/01 by Dale A. Craig · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Diverse Musicological Studies #Musicology and Musical Analysis
paper · doi:10.1017/s0040298200022075
openalex publication_date 1986/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
The most remarkable development in 20th-century music has been the gradual rise of transcultural music to status as the dominant activity of composers. Interaction between musics of various types within the same culture, and between cultures (including those separated from us in historical time), has been more important than the conventionally-recognized classifications of 20th-century musical activity such as expressionism, atonality, impressionism, neo-classicism (in its purist, Eurocentric stance), serialism, total serialism, chance, and minimalism (when it poses as an intellectual movement without cross-cultural referrents).