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  1. ↑ Nicole V. Gagné, Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012): pp. 199–200. ISBN   0-8108-6765-6.
  2. ↑ Maria Cizmic, Transcending the Icon: Spirituality and Postmodernism in Arvo Pärt’s Tabula Rasa and Spiegel im Spiegel, Twentieth-Century Music 5, no. 1 (March 2008): 45-78
  3. ↑ Alastair Williams, Between modernism and postmodernism, The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music, (Routledge, 2019). ISBN   9781315613291
  4. ↑ Christopher Butler, After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant-Garde (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980): p. 7; Nadia Mankowskaya, "L'esthétique musicale et le postmodernisme", New Sound: International Magazine for Music, no. 1 (1993): 91–100, citation on p. 91; Christian Ofenbauer, "Vom Faltenlegen: Versuch einer Lektüre von Pierre Boulez' Notation(s) I(1)", Musik-Konzepte, nos. 89–90 (1995): pp. 55–75 (passim); Nadežda Andreevna Petrusëva, "Новая форма в новейшей музыке" [The Formal Innovations of Postmodern Music], Muzyka i vremâ: Ežemesâčnyj naučnyj kritiko-publicističeskij žurnal, no. 8 (2003): 45–48, citation on p. 45.
  5. 1 2 Christopher Butler, After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant-Garde (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980): p. 7.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Beate Kutschke, "The Celebration of Beethoven’s Bicentennial in 1970: The Antiauthoritarian Movement and Its Impact on Radical Avant-garde and Postmodern Music in West Germany", The Musical Quarterly 93, nos. 3–4 (Fall–Winter 2010): 560–615, citation on p. 582.
  7. 1 2 David Beard and Kenneth Gloag, Musicology: The Key Concepts (New York: Routledge, 2005): p. 142. ISBN   978-0-415-31692-7.
  8. ↑ Mâche, François Bernard, ed. (2001). Portrait(s) de Iannis Xenakis. Portrait(s). Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France. ISBN   978-2-7177-2178-2.
  9. ↑ Searby, Michael D. (2010). Ligeti's stylistic crisis: transformation in his musical style, 1974-1985. Lanham (Md.): Scarecrow Press. ISBN   978-0-8108-7250-9.
  10. ↑ Steven Connor, "The Decomposing Voice of Postmodern Music". New Literary History 32, no. 3: Voice and Human Experience (Summer 2001): 467–83, citation on pp. 477–78; Jonathan Kramer, "The Nature and Origins of Musical Postmodernism", in Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought, edited by Judy Lochhead and Joseph Aunder, 13–26 (New York: Routledge, 2002): p. 14. ISBN   0-8153-3820-1.
  11. ↑ Geoffrey Morris, "The Guitar Works of Aldo Clementi", Contemporary Music Review 28, no. 6 (Aldo Clementi: Mirror of time I, 2009): pp. 559–86, citation on 559.
  12. ↑ Christopher Butler, After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant-Garde (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press,1980): p. 7.
  13. ↑ Rickards, Guy (2017). "PAUS Odes & Elegies". Gramophone.
  14. 1 2 3 David Beard and Kenneth Gloag, Musicology: The Key Concepts (New York: Routledge, 2005): p. 143. ISBN   978-0-415-31692-7.
  15. ↑ Jonathan Kramer, "The Nature and Origins of Musical Postmodernism", in Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought, edited by Judy Lochhead and Joseph Aunder, pp. 13–26 (New York: Routledge, 2002): p. 13. ISBN   0-8153-3820-1.
  16. ↑ Christopher Fox, "Tempestuous Times: The Recent Music of Thomas Adès", The Musical Times 145, No. 1888 (Autumn 2004): 41–56, citation on p. 53.
  17. 1 2 3 Georgina Born, Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1995): p. 56).
  18. ↑ Nicole V. Gagné, Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012): pp. 90–91. ISBN   0-8108-6765-6.
  19. ↑ Robert Carl, "Six Case Studies in New American Music: A Postmodern Portrait Gallery", College Music Symposium 30, no. 1 (Spring 1990): pp. 45–63, citation on pp. 45–48.
  20. ↑ Robert Carl, "Six Case Studies in New American Music: A Postmodern Portrait Gallery", College Music Symposium 30, no. 1 (Spring 1990): pp. 45–63, citations on pp. 45, 51–54; Jonathan Kramer, "The Nature and Origins of Musical Postmodernism", in Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought, edited by Judy Lochhead and Joseph Aunder, 13–26 (New York: Routledge, 2002): p. 13. ISBN   0-8153-3820-1.
  21. ↑ Nicole V. Gagné, Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012): pp. 12, 19. ISBN   0-8108-6765-6.
  22. ↑ Robert Carl, "Six Case Studies in New American Music: A Postmodern Portrait Gallery", College Music Symposium 30, no. 1 (Spring 1990): pp. 45–63, citation on pp. 45, 59–63.
  23. ↑ Nicole V. Gagné, Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012): pp. 44–45, 208. ISBN   0-8108-6765-6.
  24. ↑ Georgina Born, Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1995): p. 56; Jann Pasler, "Postmodernism", Grove Music Online . Oxford Music Online (accessed 11 December 2015) (subscription required).
  25. ↑ Jonathan Kramer, "The Nature and Origins of Musical Postmodernism", in Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought, edited by Judy Lochhead and Joseph Aunder, 13–26 (New York: Routledge, 2002): p. 14. ISBN   0-8153-3820-1.
  26. ↑ David Beard and Kenneth Gloag, Musicology: The Key Concepts (New York: Routledge, 2005): p. 144. ISBN   978-0-415-31692-7.

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