Home Though electronic music is world-wide recognised as a direction having independent art value, some composers and the musicians experimenting in the given genre of the modern art, protest against the name its "music". They are inclined to believe that the pledged word far not full opens essence of this phenomenon in the modern art, it not несeт the exact information on specificity of that sound world with which it operates and, moreover, even will disorient public at whom a word "music" associates with quite определeнным, centuries in the developed image. But other name satisfying all, electronic music and has not received. The direction electronic music only began to be subdivided into the basic genres of this modern kind of art - electro-acoustic music, experimental music, vanguard music, shumo-music and electronic music.