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:

    “Civilization is a conspiracy.... Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.”
    —John Buchan (1875–1940)

    “It was a poetic recreation to watch those distant sails steering for half-fabulous ports, whose very names are a mysterious music to our ears.... It is remarkable that men do not sail the sea with more expectation. Nothing was ever accomplished in a prosaic mood.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)