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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 98. Chapters: Postmodern music, Impressionist music, Serialism, Postminimalism, Drone music, Josef Tal, Licht, Minimalist music, Momente, Alphabet fur Liege, Freitag aus Licht, Trans, Gruppen, Tierkreis, Telemusik, Spectral music, Mikrophonie, In Freundschaft, Mantra, Composition for Four Instruments, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Le marteau sans maitre, Extended techniques, Hymnen, Helikopter-Streichquartett, Carre, Jubilaum, Expressionist music, Verklarte Nacht, Kurzwellen, Neoclassicism, Pli selon pli, Sirius, New Simplicity, Violin Concerto No. 1, Aus den sieben Tagen, Punctualism, Poeme electronique, Piano sonatas, Inori, Surrealist music, Gesang der Junglinge, Structures, Adieu, Betty Freeman, Kreuzspiel, Hugo Kauder, Piano Sonata No. 7, In Nomine, Holy minimalism, Neoromanticism, Contemporary harpsichord, The Yellow Sound, Zyklus, Warp Works & Twentieth Century Masters, Amour, Paul Fromm, Anthemes, Symphony No. 3, La jeune France, Composers Recordings, Inc., Three Pieces for Orchestra, Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna, Polyphonie X, Romantic Revival, God in Disguise, Concertino for Harpsichord and String Orchestra, Incises, Visions fugitives, Piano Sonata No. 6, Warsaw Autumn, Requiem, Peshtpa, The Baluch, Piano Sonata No. 2, Symphony No. 6, Sounding the New Violin, Slovart Records, Piano Sonata No. 4, Piano Sonata No. 8, Le va et le vient, The Celestial Sphere. Excerpt: Drone music is a minimalist musical style that emphasizes the use of sustained or repeated sounds, notes, or tone-clusters - called drones. It is typically characterized by lengthy audio programs with relatively slight harmonic variations throughout each piece compared to other musics. La Monte Young, one of its 1960s originators, defined it in 2000 as "the sustained tone branch of minimalism." Drone music is also known as drone-based music, drone ambient or ambi...