Frank Zappa regularly used the contrabass clarinet in his avant-garde compositions.

The style of these projects was an aggressive blend of art rock and pure avant-garde composition.

It could have seemed, in lesser hands, a study in chaos, a caricature of a 1950's avant-garde composition.

In 1960 Jones began to study avant-garde experimental composition first briefly with John Cage and then Earle Brown.

In recent years, the fields of experimental dance music, ambient rock and avant-garde electronic composition have begun to overlap creatively.

In 1964, pianist Paul Bley first began featuring her avant-garde compositions - ultimately on over 60 records.

And the audience got a chance to hear old avant-garde compositions that prefigured a future now past.

Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra is an avant-garde musical composition written by William Russo in 1968.

Despite his successful career, Rivier's music was often eclipsed by the increasingly avant-garde compositions of more progressive French composers.

"Ceremony in Starlight" is an eerie avant-garde composition with muted trumpet, piano and synthesized bells.