Classical Music
- John Cage – Thirty Pieces for String Quartet
- Friedrich Cerha – Requiem für Hollensteiner
- George Crumb – Processional for piano
- Jean Daetwyler – Concerto for Alphorn, Flute, Saxophone and Strings No. 2
- Mario Davidovsky – Romancero, for soprano, flute (piccolo, alto flute), clarinet (bass clarinet), violin and violoncello
- Lorenzo Ferrero
- Ellipse for flute
- Onde for guitar
- My Rock for piano
- Karel Goeyvaerts – Aquarius I (Voorspel)—L’ère du Verseau, for orchestra
- Jacques Hétu – Clarinet Concerto
- Witold Lutosławski – Symphony No. 3 (1972–83)
- Krzysztof Penderecki – Viola Concerto
- John Pickard – Nocturne in Black and Gold
- Peter Sculthorpe – Piano concerto
- Karlheinz Stockhausen – Luzifers Tanz, for wind orchestra
- Iannis Xenakis – Shaar
- Morton Feldman - Crippled Symmetry
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“The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always greater than its performance—Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, for instance, is always greater than its performance—whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being performed.”
—André Previn (b. 1929)
“Compare the history of the novel to that of rock ‘n’ roll. Both started out a minority taste, became a mass taste, and then splintered into several subgenres. Both have been the typical cultural expressions of classes and epochs. Both started out aggressively fighting for their share of attention, novels attacking the drama, the tract, and the poem, rock attacking jazz and pop and rolling over classical music.”
—W. T. Lhamon, U.S. educator, critic. ‘Material Differences,’ Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, Smithsonian (1990)