A student of Nicholas J. Roberts asked: > Sir We've got all these periods of music Renaissance Baroque Classical > etc. We've called music from L'apres midi d'un faune Modern but now > in the 21st century what should we call it? "Contemporary" is safest, because so many different styles are involved, and that is a sliding term referring only to a time period from the standpoint of the present. "Postmodern" would do, but it carries so much theoretical baggage that it might well be avoided. Jim Tobin