Modern Genres3

There were many new genres created and techniques implemented during the Modern era: 

• new tonalities: dodecaphonic, pandiatonic, bitonic, atonal, chromaticism, steps smaller than a minor second 

• stage productions incorporating dance

• vocal chamber music using skilled soloists

• new colors

• wordless chorus-voice serving as instruments

• sprechstimme

• percussive instruments, electronic instruments

• focus on folk music

• nationalism

• new symbols for vibrato, falsetto, whispers, hisses, yelling, speech, extreme pitches, etc.