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:

    “In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it’s modern architecture.”
    —Nancy Banks-Smith, British columnist. Guardian (London, February 20, 1979)

    “But the dark changed to red, and torches shone,
    And deafening music shook the leaves; a troop
    Shouldered a litter with a wounded man,
    Or smote upon the string and to the sound
    Sang of the beast that gave the fatal wound.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)