Favorite pieces of classical music

In the last couple of years I've grown fond of minimalism. Here is one of my favorites.

 

I think that is a silly idea. Why expand the term classical music to include other cultures which are based on different principals than classical music? What would we call classical music if you manage to hijack the term?

 

I tend to see classical music as the traditionnal music of europe. Well, at least, that's the way I classify the music I keep on my computer. I like hindu and mongolian music too, but I don' classify them as classical, but as traditionnal. Classical music is however put in the folder "traditionnal", where I have a folder for hindu and mongolia music.

 

What sort of music do you put in your non-traditional folders?

 

Rock, electronic music, in a general way, everything made after the fifties, even if I tend to listen less and less of that kind of music.

 

@Pycckia In a general way, if you need electricity to play this music (electric guitar, computers, speakers), I consider it as non traditionnal.

I like the sweetness of traditionnal music, that's just the raw skill of art, the result of traditions on centuries and centuries, no microphones, no electric speakers, no electric sound, just the beauty of most of the time wooden instruments and a voice who don't need a microphone to be heard.

 

The song from Miguel Rios, that I remember hearing on the car radio back in 1970. The US radio version was only about 2 or 3 minutes long; the maximum attention span of a US listener, and short enough so it wouldn't over-restrict radio advertisements. I thought it was pretty cool when I first heard it.

 

Much of Western "classical" music such as that from Spain and some from France and Italy originated In Turkey, Lebanon, and Morocco. Thus, it is not expanding the definition of classical but merely recognizing its expansiveness. Indeed, what makes any form of aesthetics into art is its universality.

Origin of several "classical" music instruments:


http://mentalfloss.com/article/19580/origins-7-musical-instruments


tambourines - Asia

kettle drum - Asia

guitar - Africa

accordion - China