I get concerned about labelling, categorising and boxing stuff - especialy music. What do people mean when they say 'do you like classical music' or 'what classical music do you listen to?'. What is this 'classical music' - Haydn&Mozzie and afterwards as long as it was composed in western european music style? Is it age - so how old does it have to be? Did it have to be scored as a fixed composition or is that folk music? Is Plainchant classical, the scored dance tunes of Susato, O'Carolan harp tunes, 17th century Bulgarian music, Early Chinese 7 string qin music . . . .
When is something NOT classical - or is ?
I get concerned with sweeping labels - why not just like the music - whoever wrote it, for whom, for what and when?