Compared with the nationalist music of19th century, the depth of neo-nationalist music in the 20th century in eulogizing the national content and people's life has been weakened. Composers pay attention to the connotation of folk music itself and the new discovery of its characteristics.

In the processing of music materials, neo-nationalist music emphasizes the absorption of people's inherent characteristics and melodies, and creates according to folk modes, scales and rhythms. In the absorption of musical features, this kind of music is more or less influenced by some new composing techniques.

The representative figure of this music genre is Bartok. He is a Hungarian composer. Representative works include piano textbooks such as Small Universe and For Children, and opera The Castle of Duke Bluebeard.

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In addition to neo-nationalist music, there are also music types in the 20th century: difference music, noise music, sequence music, temporary music, electronic music and other music forms. Since 1970s, the development of music in the 20th century has shown a diversified trend.

No style occupies a central position. Composers pay attention to the creation and discovery of new techniques, new acoustics and new tricks, and make more use of the new expression techniques accumulated in the past decades to combine with traditional music to create. Romantic trend of thought is gradually returning, and atonal music is quietly withdrawing from the music trend.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Modern Music