20th- and 21st-century music Composer

jazz group consisting of double bassist reggie workman, tenor saxophone player pharoah sanders, , drummer idris muhammad, performing in 1978

in 19th century, 1 of key ways new compositions became known public sales of sheet music, amateur music lovers perform @ home on piano or other instruments. 20th-century music, there vast increase in music listening radio gained popularity , phonographs used replay , distribute music. in 20th century, contemporary classical composers influenced african-american improvisation-based jazz music. jazz influence can seen in third stream music , in compositions of leonard bernstein. focus of art music characterized exploration of new rhythms, styles, , sounds. igor stravinsky, arnold schoenberg, , john cage influential composers in 20th-century art music. cage wrote compositions traditional classical instruments , unusual sound-producing devices not thought of instruments, such radios. invention of sound recording , ability edit music on tape gave rise new subgenre of classical music, including acousmatic , musique concrète schools of electronic composition, in composers made pieces using reel-to-reel tape recorders , electronic equipment.