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Gelid · 02-02-2008, 11:32 AM

Alright... here's a question kind of related to this topic, but I'm not sure it merits its own thread: Is classical music necessarily instrumental?

The reason I ask this is there is a quartet of women who call themselves Anonymous 4, who interprit and record/perform "a cappella" medieval chant and other music and polyphony from the middle ages. They were topping the classical music charts in 1993, before the release of "Chant: The Benedictine Monks Of Santo Domingo de Silos.

I believe they can be considered classical and thus modern classical, as they are current, but I'm not too knowledgable of this genre.

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Gelid Groupie Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse Posts: 15	Alright... here's a question kind of related to this topic, but I'm not sure it merits its own thread: Is classical music necessarily instrumental? The reason I ask this is there is a quartet of women who call themselves Anonymous 4, who interprit and record/perform "a cappella" medieval chant and other music and polyphony from the middle ages. They were topping the classical music charts in 1993, before the release of "Chant: The Benedictine Monks Of Santo Domingo de Silos. I believe they can be considered classical and thus modern classical, as they are current, but I'm not too knowledgable of this genre.