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Avant-garde music is a term used to characterize music which is thought by critics to be ahead of its time i.e. containing unique or original elements or unexplored fusions of different genres.Historically speaking musicologists primarily use the term avant-garde music for the radical post-1945 music after the death of Anton Webern in 1945 or starting with Wagner or even with Josquin des Prez.Today the term may be used to refer to any other post-1945 tendency of modernist music not definable as experimental music though sometimes including a type of experimental music characterized by the rejection of tonality.Although some modernist music is also avant-garde a distinction can be made between the two categories.