Postmodern composers

As for music, here's a list of five post-modernist composers, some of whom cross both the Modernist and post-modernist genres.

• John Cage (1912-1992)
• Pierre Boulez (1925 – 2016)
• Zygmunt Krauze (1938 - )
• Earle Brown (1926 – 2002)
• Luciano Berio (1925 – 2003)

1. Who is the father of postmodernism?
2. Who was a modern era composer?
3. What are 5 characteristics of postmodernism?
4. What are some general characteristics of postmodern music?

Who is the father of postmodernism?

FOLLOWING the great American modernist poets of the first decades of the 20th century -- Pound, Eliot, Williams -- Charles Olson is the father of the "postmodernists" of the second half of the century, bridging Pound & Co. to such major poets as Robert Duncan and Robert Creeley.

Who was a modern era composer?

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971). He studied under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and completed two grand ballets for Sergei Diaghilev: The Firebird and Petrushka. His Paris premiere of The Rite of Spring (1913), however, is what inaugurated music's Modern era.

What are 5 characteristics of postmodernism?

Many postmodernists hold one or more of the following views: (1) there is no objective reality; (2) there is no scientific or historical truth (objective truth); (3) science and technology (and even reason and logic) are not vehicles of human progress but suspect instruments of established power; (4) reason and logic ...

What are some general characteristics of postmodern music?

includes fragmentations and discontinuities. encompasses pluralism and eclecticism. presents multiple meanings and multiple temporalities. locates meaning and even structure in listeners, more than in scores, performances, or composers.