> What do you do with Philip Glass? His work is currently tagged
> "Classical;Avant Garde" in my collection (mostly -- the Low and
> 'Heroes'
> symphonies add "...;Glam;Eno", and the soundtracks add
> "...;Soundtrack"), but it just feels weird tagging music composed in my
> lifetime as "classical". Is there another word for describing serious
> music written in the modern era?

I would tag him as "classical;contemporary". A term people use often to
describe contemporary classical music is "contemporary music". And I
would use "classical; modern" for composers such as Stravinsky or
Bartok. I think I would even use "classical; modern" for neoclassical
stuff.


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