Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-11-26 | Page 6 | "Classical" Music

"Classical" Music. Many people have an idea that only the compositions of the old masters are classical and frequently imagine that these are classical because they belong to the past. It is not antiquity or the name of the composer that determines de-termines whether a piece of music is classical or otherwise. The true mean ing of classical music Is: Compositions Composi-tions which maintain a certain stan dard; music of the first rank. Compositions Compo-sitions can be classical and romantic at the same time. The word romantic, as applied to music, means imaginative, imagina-tive, fairylike. Music which is classical clas-sical and at the same time romantic, is more emotional, more fanciful, more poetic i-nd less rigid and formal than strictly classical compositions. For example, Btch's works are, more frequently, strictly classical, whereas Mendelssohn's and Schumann's are both classical and romantic.