There have actually been many new music movements in the last half century of classical music . While technology has made many aspects of composition much, much easier (I don't have to sit by candlelight and transcribe fifty parts by hand for the next orchestra rehearsal) and has led to a lot of laziness (especially for those that are not well-trained), classical composers that have been formally trained and use the technology to better their music (and not just substitute for bad music) have forged new musical ideas. Here are a few of the musical movements in the last half century: • Minimalism (Kamien pg 486) • Neo-Romanticism and Neo-Classicism • Computer Music and Electroacoustic Music (pg 498 Kamien) • Intermedia, Multimedia, Mixed Media • Chance Music (Kamien pg 485) What is exciting is that technology is constantly opening up new doors to sound and music. Everything has not been invented. There are new technologies, hybrid instruments, computer lang...