Watch this History of Music and Romantic to Contemporary Music video entitled Music into The 1980s to study the experimental works of composers since the mid 20th century.
Use this K12 history of music video to study and gain an understanding of music into the 1980's, the different types of music composers were writing, such as experimental, serialism, jazz based, aleatoric, electronic and minimalism. Learn why the public remained fascinated with music from the past rather than that of contemporary composers. Listen to excerpts from Gershwin, Cage, Copeland, Shostakovich, Rochberg, Ligeti and Reich.