Expert: Gary Goldberg - 7/15/2009

Question
what is classical music?

Answer
Salaam aleikum!

My apologies for not having answered this question earlier. I was travelling in France
and Russia.

Here's one defintion from an online dictionary: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/classical+music

You can find others by entering "define: classical music" in Google.

I see you're in Syria. Someone who lives outside Europe might include
their own nation's traditional folk music in the category of "classical music".
Those of us in Europe and North America  usually define classical music
as serious ("art") music of the past few centuries which may be infuenced
by folk music (especially music by the famous 19th century Russian composers
based in St. Petersburg (the so-called "Mighty Handful" or "Mighty Five").

Gary