Its moment in the avant-garde sun came in the late 1950's and early 60's, when it was a hotbed for international-style musical modernism.

However, Chin has also clearly been influenced by musical modernism.

His major opera Palestrina (1917) makes the case for tradition and inspiration rather than musical modernism.

By the mid-1960's, musical modernism had reached its furthest extremes of sonic mayhem and chance-produced spectacle.

It is "the locus classicus of a uniquely Bartókian contribution to the language of musical modernism".

Neoclassical music usually refers to the movement in musical modernism in which composers gained influence from the Classical period.

That led to four years of compositional silence and a reconsideration of almost everything about musical modernism.

But the slight quality of reticence in his approach compelled you to hear the purely musical modernism of the prelude as well.

Antitheatricality was prominent in all three periods of 19th- and early 20th-century musical modernism in Vienna.

All four conductors are ardent champions of 20th-century musical modernism and its fascination with formal and textural clarity.