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In music the term modernism refers generally to the period of change and development in musical language that occurred at or around the turn of the 20th century a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music innovations that lead to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic melodic sonic and rhythmic aspects of music and changes in aesthetic worldviews in close relation to the larger identifiable period of modernism in the arts of the time.