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Old 06-22-2014, 06:38 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by vibratoviolin View Post
Hey,

I was wondering... If pop music gets played by a symphonic orchestra, can you call it classical music? Where is the line from then on?
For me, most definitely not.
Of course one could argue and harangue each other with endless variations of the definitions of classical music and whether simply a form of orchestra, symphony, sonata or whatever of a piece makes it classical or whether it has to have been written before C20.
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