Twentieth century music, the pieces that were written during 1901-2000, is the most experimenting music throughout the past era. Lots of new style music was developed in this twentieth century period, such as Surrealism, neo-classicism, minimalism…etc. This music was having a huge influence toward not only to music, but also to the whole world. They change the concept of the classical music and rebuild it with new elements and forms. Although nowadays, twentieth century music is mostly accepted by the people. In the past days, this music is not accepted and stops the concert when the performances start. People were not able to get used to the new music in this sudden change, while the past periods have never been done like that. Twentieth century music was often shown up in our life, but we could hardly tell that it is twentieth century music; they have become part of our life. In this essay, you will learn more about the importance of twentieth century music.

In twentieth century music, composers were trying to break out the frame of the music and all the rule and regulations, to get rid of the shadow of classical music. Therefore, most of the music was a sudden change, pieces with no tone, no rhythm or even no sound at all. Although these examples might be too extreme and some of the composer would follow the classical music rules, these are the pieces which influence the most in the later development of music.

The existence of 20th century music influences the later