The 20th century saw the creation of modernist music of unprecedented originality and complexity.

Correspondence shows that he felt uncomfortable with changing musical styles, such as jazz and modernist classical music.

He speaks dialogue as if it's modernist music.

Even so, postmodern music still does not primarily define itself in opposition to modernist music; this label is applied instead by critics and theorists.

And he suffused his harmonies with the chilly sound of modernist classical music.

But even Stravinsky was pilloried by the champions of Schoenberg, who believed that modernist music had to press ever forward.

His work draws on ideas from modernist music, minimalist music, jazz, and popular music.

Grubb was distinctly cool towards modernist music, and was a firm traditionalist.

There are knotty yet always passionately expressive sections that recall the more conventionally modernist classical music he wrote in his student days.

Pingoud was the first Finnish composer to write modernist music.