The following Wikipedia articles deal with 20th-century music.

Western art music

Main articles

20th-century classical music 20th-century classical music describes art music that was written nominally from 1901 to 2000, inclusive. Musical style diverged during the 20th century as it never had previously. So this century was without a dominant style. Modernism, impressio ...

Contemporary classical music Contemporary classical music is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included seria ...

, covering the period

Sub-topics

* Aleatoric music * Electronic music *

Experimental music Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, ...

* Expressionist music * Microtonal music * Minimal music *

Modernism (music) In music, modernism is an aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories o ...

* Neoclassical music * Modern opera * Twelve-tone technique (dodecaphonic music)

Folk music

Bluegrass music Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music The term American folk music encompasses numerous music genres, variously known as ''traditional music'', ''traditional folk music'', ''contemporary folk music'', ''vernacular music,'' or ...

* Contemporary folk music * Roots revival * World music

Popular music

Main article

* Popular music

African popular music

* African popular music

Popular music in Asia

India

* Indian pop

Japan

* Japanese popular music

Popular music in Latin America

Music of Latin America The music of Latin America refers to music originating from Latin America, namely the Romance-speaking regions of the Americas south of the United States. Latin American music also incorporates African music from enslaved African people who were ...