Show CLASSICAL IN MUSIC IS TERM LOOSELY USED Should Have Same Significance Significance cance as in Literature Says AU Authority I rity The term classical music is one of ot those frequently used but loosely dc- dc fined that is more and u more nore In need of oC clearing up as music Itself becomes a familiar language to everybody Tho The Musical Courier has hns conic como forward to meet tho the task and I its explanation of the term should settle the tho moot question once and for all According to the Courier classical Is a a. term torm usually employed h by tho the musically uncultured to designate music they do not like while whilo musicians musicians musicians mu mu- often use uso it to designate the tIme music they like best it It Is also used to distinguish old music rein new music and it ha has do ho duty as the thc antithesis of oC operatic music Further th the tho terms term classical Is se selected sc- sc to show that the thu music to which it is applied Is not romantic In tact fact tile the word classical is a convenient convenient convenient con con- expression which every man thinks ho lie knows but bul which few Cew men inca have ha had the courage to explain When ho hu is asked squar squarely l to give i a definition of classical music ho will hem and haw ha hesitate say well its it's like this you see tako take Beethoven for or instance theres Bach dont don't you ou know lenow why why or or now Mozart or orlIa lIa Haydn I tI I consider that Chopin Is classical in some ways at leant lenat That ThatIs Is about a as aM far as tho tIm average crag man mang g sets In describing classical music Sir Hubert Parr Parry the tho recently deceased deceased deceased de de- de- de ceased English Eng musician ha hac ex expressed eX- eX pressed himself In Groves Grove's Dictionary as follows Classical is a term which in music has much tho same significance as It has In literature used of works which have held hold their place in general gen goim- oral eral estimation lor l'or a considerable time and o or neis new works which aro are aro generally considered to be he of or th the same type anu style hence the tho annie namo haa has cone come to be especially applied to tow w works rles In th the forms orals which adopted adopt adopt- ed Cd d by tho the great greal masters of tho latter part of oC the eighteenth century as in instrumental In in- works In the sonata form torm an and operas constructed after the received re rc- re- re tra traditions otc etc Without doubt the tho above e is the correct definition of ot tho the terra term Works yorks I which remain in ill favor or long bug enough and which are looked up Ull to as models by succeeding succeeding- g generations eventually e become classical oven o tho h they rero considered romantic ultra modera modern mod moll era ern revolutionary and orgies of or anarchy an an- arch archy at tho the time lime thc they were written If It the they JU-e JU the they become classical Man Many p perfect copies of tho the best hest classical classi cal dIc die very ery cr young however ho |