Depends on the instant purpose for which you are approaching it. If you are an impresario intending to please a not necessarily knowledgeable in the field general audience, you will make different demands on the performers of the music, of whatever genre, from those made by a cultural historian, or by a musicological taxonomist, either of whose approaches will be phenomenological rather than critical or aesthetic or popularist, as the case may be. Are you perhaps being too anxious to find a one-size-fit-all approach?

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