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Old 05-08-2014, 01:53 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Hey,

I was wondering... If pop music gets played by a symphonic orchestra, can you call it classical music? Where is the line from then on?
What categorizes it is not so much the instruments used but by who wrote it. Since the song was written by either a professional songwriter or a one or more band members (and not by a composer for orchestra instrumentation) it falls under the mega-umbrella of Popular music. It's still a pop song, it's just that it has been transcribed to be played by an orchestra or for solo, duo, trio, quartet, etc etc performance.
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