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Avant-garde music is a term used to characterize music which is thought to be ahead of its time, i.e. containing innovative elements or fusing different genres.

Historically speaking, musicologists primarily use the term "avant-garde music" for the radical, post-1945 tendencies of a modernist style in several genres of art music^[1] after the death of Anton Webern in 1945.^[2] In the 1950s the term avant-garde music was mostly associated with serial music.^[1]

Today the term may be used to refer to any other post-1945 tendency of modernist music not definable as experimental music, though sometimes including a type of experimental music characterized by the rejection of tonality.^[2]

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^ ^a ^b Griffiths, Paul, "Modern Music: The Avant Garde since 1945" in Music Educators Journal, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Dec., 1981), pp. 63-64
^ ^a ^b Du Noyer, Paul (ed.) (2003), "Contemporary" in the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music. Flame Tree.p.272. ISBN 1-9040-4170-1

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[Griffiths-0] Griffiths, Paul, "Modern Music: The Avant Garde since 1945" in Music Educators Journal, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Dec., 1981), pp. 63-64

[Du_Noyer-1] Du Noyer, Paul (ed.) (2003), "Contemporary" in the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music. Flame Tree.p.272. ISBN 1-9040-4170-1

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