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Most significant works of music 1950-1990

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

Most significant works of music, 1990s

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