In the wide sense, all musics created in actuality are NEW MUSIC. I include the Classical Contemporany Music, Operas (and Cantatas/Oratorios) Jazz, Rock, Pop Music (songs and dances), Utilitary Music (religious, political, social, conmunity, sporting etc. hymns; trading jingles; soundtrack of the films, ballet and play-theaters; shopping/airport/elevator/pub etc. surrounding music etc.). We are living like the Renaissancist Music Age, when the all musicians compounded masses, motets, profane songs, dances, marches, canzonas per sonar, sonatas, concerti etc. But, in the stict sense, I reserve the denomination NEW MUSIC only to trends of the Classical Contemporany Music (pos-minimalism, pos-modernism, aleatory, new-serialism, neo-tonalism, eletrocnic academic, experimental, and others trends). In my opinion, the CLASSICAL MUSIC - the ART of the MUSIC - born in the Renaissance Age (14th-15th Century). It is a specifical Art to explorate artisticly the sound parameters (pitch, register, melody, harmony, rhythm, attack, articulation, intensity, speed/andamento, genre, form etc.). Edson Tadeu Ortolan - Brazil [log in to unmask] http://sites.uol.com.br/eortolan