[lbo-talk] "Classical" -- music terminology

[joanna bujes]

P.S. Problem with terminology above, since "classical" has a least three
separate senses, not easily disentangled. The "Jazz Classics" would not
be "classical" in either sence a or sense b above, but in the popular
sense of "classical," the best, the original. Someone else can try to
untangle this if they care.

Well, thinking of the musical progressions, I am familiar with, I would hazard the definition that "classical" can also mean a level of maturity in the evolution of a musical form when constitutive elements of that form have been articulated/distilled  and which can therefore be musically investigated for further formal possibilities.

It's a bit overwrought, but ...

Joanna