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:
“However far modern science and technics have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)
“His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or classical; it has not the music of poetry, nor the pomp of philosophy, but the rhythms and cadences of conversation endlessly repeated.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)