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Originally Posted by music_phantom13
But in the professional world (fields that study music like ethnomusicology) classical music is often considered the only form of music, with a lot of people in the academic refusing to acknowledge even jazz as intelligent music. So by their viewpoint, no there is not. This is ironic to me, because I would expect those people to be open minded.
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Interesting.
I haven't studied that, but in that context it begs the question... was there a such thing as music prior to pianos, trumpets, violins, etc.?
Obviously, the answer is yes.
Classical music can't define itself as
the only form of music by virtue of itself if "itself" is composed of instruments inspired by, and created for, the creation of
music, unless it's referring to the creation of a form of music related to its creation.
Musical expression happened long before classical music came to be.