 A generation later, this term now properly refers to the music of today written by composers who are still alive; music that came into prominence in the mid-1970s.It includes different variations of modernist, postmodern, neoromantic, and pluralist music.Almost all of the composers who are described in music textbooks on classical music and whose works are widely performed as part of the standard concert repertoire are male composers, even though there has been a large number of women composers throughout the classical music period.