{
  "name": "Modern Classical",
  "description": "Multitude of different compositional approaches beginning in the 20th century that deviate significantly from the previously-held tenets.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/modern-classical/",
  "parent": "Western Classical Music",
  "level": "sub-2",
  "children_count": 15,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "American Gamelan",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/american-gamelan/",
      "description": "Mid-20th-century style, influenced by arrangements, instrumentation, rhythms, timbres, and tunings of Indonesian Gamelan.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Modern Classical"
    },
    {
      "name": "Expressionism",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/expressionism/",
      "description": "Originating between the abandonment of tonality at the conclusion of the period of Romanticism and the creation of twelve-tone composition.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Modern Classical"
    },
    {
      "name": "Futurism",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/futurism/",
      "description": "Radical and militant attitude, rejection of Western Classical Music and traditional criteria of craft, non-conformity, and a fascination with machines.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Modern Classical"
    },
    {
      "name": "Impressionism",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/impressionism/",
      "description": "Originated in late 19th to early 20th century France as a reaction to Romanticism, placing a greater focus on depicting atmosphere and mood rather than fixed concepts.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Modern Classical"
    },
    {
      "name": "Indeterminacy",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/indeterminacy/",
      "description": "Leaves elements of composition, performance, or both up to chance.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Modern Classical"
    },
    {
      "name": "Microtonal Classical",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/microtonal-classical/",
      "description": "Eschews the traditional twelve-tone scale of Western Classical Music, utilizing intervals outside of its bounds.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Modern Classical"
    },
    {
      "name": "Minimalism",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/minimalism/",
      "description": "Developed in the United States in the 1960s; recognized for its repetitive nature and use of static harmony.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Modern Classical"
    },
    {
      "name": "Musique concrète instrumentale",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/musique-concrete-instrumentale/",
      "description": "Acoustic, through-composed Classical Music that relies heavily on unconventional instrumental techniques.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Modern Classical"
    },
    {
      "name": "New Complexity",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/new-complexity/",
      "description": "Dense, difficult, and rigorously academic approach to Modern Classical composition which emerged in the 1980s.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Modern Classical"
    },
    {
      "name": "Post-Minimalism",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/post-minimalism/",
      "description": "Seeks to push Minimalism's linear composition style forward, and takes in influences from genres such as Jazz, Traditional Folk Music, and others.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Modern Classical"
    },
    {
      "name": "Process Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/process-music/",
      "description": "Compositions centering musical processes, both audible and inaudible.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Modern Classical"
    },
    {
      "name": "Serialism",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/serialism/",
      "description": "Compositional method in which pitches are grouped into sets (tone rows) to determine the order and frequency of their use.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Modern Classical"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sonorism",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/sonorism/",
      "description": "Techniques and forms that emphasize texture and timbre.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Modern Classical"
    },
    {
      "name": "Spectralism",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/spectralism/",
      "description": "Compositional practice involving analysis, manipulation, and transformation of sound spectra.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Modern Classical"
    },
    {
      "name": "Stochastic Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/stochastic-music/",
      "description": "Composition featuring guided indeterminism, where the following state is only partially determined by the preceding state.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Modern Classical"
    }
  ]
}