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• ClassicalSymphony1人の作曲家が、最大100人の奏者をひとつのまとまった音楽へと束ねる。西洋音楽が築き上げた最も大規模で野心的な器楽形式だ。18世紀後半の古典派で形が定まり、19世紀ロマン派から現代までオーケストラ(管弦楽)のための多楽章曲の中心であり続けてきた。
• Rock & MetalNeue Deutsche WelleGerman-language new wave / post-punk, from arty electronic minimalism to chart pop.
• Folk & WorldLiedermacherThe German-language singer-songwriter tradition — literally 'song-makers.'
• ClassicalNew SimplicityA late-1970s German reaction against modernist complexity that pulled expressionist gesture, theater and tonal references back into new music.
• Electronic & DanceElektronische Musik1950s Cologne-WDR studio practice: composed from pure electronically generated sounds, distinct from Paris's tape-based musique concrete.
• ClassicalTwelve-tone TechniqueSchoenberg's 1923 method — order all twelve chromatic pitches into a row and derive the whole piece from its transformations, suppressing any sense of key.
• Electronic & DanceMicrotonal MusicMusic that uses pitches between the standard twelve — quarter tones, just intonation, custom-built scales.
• ClassicalAtonalityThe deliberate abandonment of tonal center in Vienna around 1908 — gestural, anxious, unresolved.
• ClassicalMusical ExpressionismEarly twentieth-century Viennese music as direct psychological exposure: dissonance, gestural extremes and Sprechstimme.
• ClassicalCzech NationalismLate nineteenth-century Czech composers — Smetana, Dvořák, Janáček — who built Bohemian and Moravian material into the symphonic mainstream.

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