Avant-garde music

/ˈavəntɡˈɑːd mjˈuːzɪk/

/ˈævəntɡˈɑːɹd mjˈuːzɪk/

[noun]

Avant-garde music

[NOUN]

music that rejects the conventional forms and introduces new and progressive themes

Examples

1. In the world of avant-garde music, historians mostly talk about white man's contributions to the genre.

2. So it was given to David Tudor who at the time was the avant-garde music world's greatest virtuoso of the most difficult piano music.

3. Another modern composer, John Cage, is famous for playing very avant-garde music without much anticipation of what could happen next, and in this particular piece, he uses a feather to stroke and amplify cactus.