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| Electronic art music
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| Stylistic origins:
| 20th century classical music
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| Cultural origins:
| 1940s - 1950s
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| Typical instruments:
| Synthesizer - Tape loops (in latter incarnations were added Sequencer - Keyboard - Sampler - Computer)
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| Mainstream popularity:
| Small.
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| Derivative forms:
| Techno - Electronica - IDM - Trance - GlitchGlitch (also known as clicks and cuts is a genre of electronic music that became popular in the late 1990s with the increasing use of digital signal processing, particularly on computers. Glitch is influenced by Musique concrete, techno, industrial and am
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| SubgenresContemporary electronic music includes many different styles or musical genres, such as: Ambient Ambient groove Illbient Organic ambient Isolationist Breakbeat Darkstep 2Step also known as Speed garage Breakbeat hardcore Breakcore Brokenbeat Drill and bas
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| Musique concrèteMusique Concrete is the name given to a class of electronic music produced from editing together fragments of natural and industrial sounds. Concrete (as opposed to "Abstraite", traditional composition) was pioneered in the late 1940s and 1950s, spurred b - NoiseNoise music is harnessed sound that can be sonically harsh, painful, nauseating, and generally undesirable under normative circumstances. Noise" music could be viewed a contradiction in terms. Strictly speaking, "noise" is sound that is not wanted. The de
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Electronic "art" music is a regrettably vague term for the formal and primarily academic branch of electronic musicElectronic music is a loose term for music created using electronic equipment. Any sound produced by the means of an electrical signal may reasonably be called electronic, and the term is sometimes used that way in music where acoustic performance is the that is focused on extending musical capabilities through technology. Electronic art music suffers from naming difficulties similar to those associated with the terms " contemporary musicIn the broadest sense, contemporary music is any music being written in the present day. In the context of classical music the term applies to music written in the last half century or so, particularly works post-1960. The argument over whether the term a" and " modern classical music" (modern music composed in the traditions of classical musicThis article is about the broad genre of classical music in the Western musical tradition. For the period of music in the 18th century see Classical music era, for articles on classical music of non-Western cultures, see: List of classical music tradition.)
When electronic techniques first came to be used for musical purposes, the experimental field was fully contained within the term "Electronic music". Many of these early electronic compositions drew widespread interest, but little enthusiasm. Beginning in the 1960s, however, electronic techniques and instruments were embraced by popular musicians, eventually leading to more mainstream styles that also came to be embraced under the umbrella of "electronic music". Although both forms are still referred to as "electronic music" by their respective adherents, the term " art music" is generally used to specify the less mainstream of the two branches.
