There are genres such as ethnic music, neoclassicism, primitive music, new nationalism, futurism, noise music, and concrete music.
1. Neoclassicism
After World War I, many experimental schools and trends of thought appeared in Western music. On the other hand, some important composers It has gone through a relatively stable style development process. New aesthetic concepts and musical thinking emerge one after another. From the early 1920s to the 1950s, neoclassicism was arguably the most influential music genre.
2. Futurism
Futurism is a popular social trend in the modern West. It aims to predict and predict the prospects of future social development based on past human development and scientific knowledge in order to control and plan the current process and better adapt to the future.
3. Serialism
Serialism, also known as serial music, is a music creation technique that emerged in the 20th century and developed into a modern music type and genre. It is characterized by combining some parameters of music according to a certain mathematical arrangement, called a sequence, and then these arrangements or variations of the arrangements are repeated throughout the song.
4. Accidental music
Aleatory music is one of the Western modernist music genres. It refers to music in which the composer introduces accidental factors into the creation process or performance process. Also known as "uncertainty music" or "opportunity music". It began in the mid-20th century and has a certain influence in the West.
5. National Music School
The National Music School refers to a group of musicians who were active in the European music scene after the mid-19th century and were closely connected with the bourgeois nationalist cultural movement. Most of them are politically radical, sympathize with or participate in the bourgeois revolution in their country, and have a strong national consciousness. Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia: Genre