BellaOnline Forums Books and Music Classical Music How do YOU Define Classical Music?

I'm getting ready to do LOTS of reviews for Christmas-time, and my husband was questioning me about some of the CD's I had. "That's classical music? I thought classical music had to be written by certain composers."

So it got me thinking - how do we define "Classical Music" (which I will be doing an article on this). But I wanted to get y'all's opinions.

What makes Classical Music "Classical"? multiple choice
	The era in which it was written
	The composer who wrote it
	The instrument(s) used
	The arena in which it is performed
	other (explain)
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