An American or European composer, for example, now has access to the music of various Asian, African, and South American cultures.
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This awareness of music in its largest sense - as a world-wide phenomenon - will inevitably have enormous consequences for the music of the future.George Crumb
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The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.
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Numerous recordings of non-Western music are readily available, and live performances by touring groups can be heard even in our smaller cities.
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Apart from these broader cultural influences which contribute to the shaping of our contemporary musical psyche, we also have to take into account the rather bewildering legacy of the earlier twentieth-century composers in the matter of compositional technique and procedure.
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One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.
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