Modern Music

Modern music may refer to:

  • 20th-century music
  • 20th-century classical music
  • 21st-century classical music
  • Contemporary classical music
  • Modernism (music)
  • Modern rock
  • Popular music

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or music:

    “Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.”
    —Thomas Beecham (1879–1961)