Most significant works of music 1950-1990
(Just a teaser: i don't guarantee consistency with the genre-based rankings)
- Shostakovic: Symphony No 15 (1971) [classical]
- Karlheinz Stockhausen: Gesang der Junglinge (1956) [classical]
- Charles Mingus: The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (1963) [jazz]
- Boulez: Repons (1980) [classical]
- Carter: Symphony of Three Orchestras (1977) [classical]
- Ligeti: Double concerto (1972) [classical]
- Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica (1969) [rock]
- Lutoslawski: Sinfonia 3 (1983) [classical]
- John Coltrane: A Love Supreme (1964) [jazz]
- Part: Tabula rasa (1977) [classical]
- Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom (1974) [rock]
- Gerhard: Concerto for Orchestra (1965) [classical]
- Faust (1971) [rock]
- Penderecki: Hiroshima Threnody (1960) [classical]
- Terry Riley: Rainbow in Curved Air (1968) [electronica]
- Jon Hassell: Dream Theory In Malaya (1981) [electronica]
- Meredith Monk: Dolmen Music (1981) [classical]
- John Fahey: Fare Forward Voyagers (1971) [folk]
- Albert Ayler: Witches and Devils (1964) [jazz]
- Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) [rock]
- Sun Ra: Atlantis (1967) [jazz]
- Balakauskas: Ostrobothnian Symphony (1989) [classical]
- Cecil Taylor: Unit Structures (1966) [jazz]
- Klaus Schulze: Irrlicht (1972) [electronica]
- Schnittke: Concerto Grosso 5 (1991) [classical]
- Feldman: Rothko Chapel (1971) [classical]
- Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue (1959) [jazz]
- Partch: Revelation (1960) [classical]
- Tubin: Symphony 8 (196x) [classical]
- Don Cherry: Mu (1969) [jazz]
- Ljubica: Byzantine Concerto (1959) [classical]
- Reich: Drumming (1971) [classical]
- Carla Bley: Escalator Over The Hill (1971) [jazz]
- Art Ensemble of Chicago: Les Stances A Sophie (1970) [jazz]
- Maxwell Davies: Vesalii Icones (1969) [classical]
- Harrison: La koro-sutro (1972) [classical]
- Xenakis: Orient Occident (1960) [classical]
- Steve Roach: Dreamtime Return (1988) [electronica]
- Tippett: Mask of Time (1982) [classical]
Most significant works of music, 1990s
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