20th-century classical music

thumb|upright=1.5|Six-element set (music)|row of rhythmic values used in Variazioni canoniche by [[Luigi Nono.]]

twentieth-century movement in music

western movement in music

art movement

Israeli composer (1910–2008)

term adopted by the Nazis during the 1920s to condemn modern culture that, according to Hitler, manifested symptoms of national decline

composition for string sextet by Arnold Schoenberg

minimalist music genre

Postminimalism is an art term coined (as post-minimalism) by Robert Pincus-Witten in 1971 and used in various artistic fields for work which is influenced by, or attempts to develop and go beyond, the aesthetic of minimalism. The expression is used specifically in relation to music and the visual arts, but can refer to any field using minimalism as a critical reference point. In music, postminimalism refers to music following minimal music.

symphony composed by Jean Sibelius

International Festival of Contemporary Music

opera by Richard Strauss

music of the postmodern era, or that follows aesthetical and philosophical trends of postmodernism

suite of piano pieces by Sergei Prokofiev

composition for piano by Sergei Prokofiev

thumb|275px|Karlheinz Stockhausens grave with the score to LICHT . Licht (Light), subtitled "Die sieben Tage der Woche" (The Seven Days of the Week), is a cycle of seven operas composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen between 1977 and 2003. The composer described the work as an "eternal spiral" because "there is neither end nor beginning to the week." Licht consists of 29 hours of music.

compositional practice involving analysis, manipulation and transformation of sound spectra

Post-romanticism or Postromanticism refers to a range of cultural endeavors and attitudes emerging in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, after the period of Romanticism.

composition for piano by Sergei Prokofiev

music genre

piano sonata composed by Sergei Prokofiev

artistic concept

Final completed piano sonata by Sergei Prokofiev

music genre

music genre

electronic music work by Karlheinz Stockhausen

orchestral suite by Richard Strauss

composition by Pierre Boulez

composition for piano by Sergei Prokofiev

piano sonata composed by Sergei Prokofiev (1912)

composition for clarinet, string quartet, and piano by Sergei Prokofiev

by Prokofiev

composition for piano by Sergei Prokofiev

thumb|350px|Olivier Messiaen's unordered series for pitch, duration, dynamics, and articulation from the pre-serial ''Mode de valeurs et d'intensités, upper division only—which [[Pierre Boulez adapted as an ordered row for his Structures I'']]

unorthodox methods of singing or of playing musical instruments

music genre

thumb|upright=1.4|Dutch Grasshoppers aerobatics team, flying the Aérospatiale Alouette III|Alouette helicopters they used in the world premiere of the Helicopter String Quartet The Helikopter-Streichquartett () is one of Karlheinz Stockhausen's best-known pieces, and one of the most complex to perform. It involves a string quartet, four helicopters with pilots, as well as audio and video equipment and technicians. It was first performed and recorded in 1995. Although performable as a self-sufficient piece, it also forms the third scene of the opera Mittwoch aus Licht ("Wednesday from Light"),

music patron, philanthropist (1921-2009)

piano sonata composed by Sergey Prokofiev

electronic music piece

musical work composed by Leevi Madetoja

20th-century movement in music

term used to describe the musical works of a number of late-twentieth-century composers of Western classical music

Austrian musician (1888–1972)

symphony by Leevi Madetoja

music genre and movement

Composition for string quartet by Sergey Prokofiev

musical work composed by Alan Hovhaness

Symphonic work by Rued Langgaard

ballet

musical work composed by Leevi Madetoja

symphony composed by Alan Hovhaness

symphony by Alan Hovhaness

work by Sergei Prokofiev

music genre

composition for chamber ensemble by Sergei Prokofiev

suite for piano duet by Erik Satie