Classical Music for Aficionados

Melm, I don’t disagree with you re Ashokan Farewell at all; that was not the thrust of my comments.  Where we may disagree, in part, is over the ultimate “importance of distinguishing” between genres, particularly when the distinction is based upon things such as technical ease of playing, simplicity of harmony, number of accidentals, etc; all characteristics which in fact can be found in some Classical works.  Those things are not what necessarily define a genre.  Btw, here are some violin works clearly in a Classical style played entirely in first position that may be of interest to you:

https://www.laurelthomsen.com/Violin_Geek_Blog/Entries/2020/9/6_First_Position_Beginning_Violin_Concerto_Repertoire.html

Is the "AUM" sound, folk sound or classical?

Sometimes something is deeply moving in a way impossible to understand...

Distinguishing is good but we must not separate and oppose what we distinguish in opposing directions, one presumed primitive the other presumed sophisticated...

At the end for the heart what is deep may be simple and sophisticated at the same time, because succeeding to move all heart together is not a simple feat at all...

Then the "ashokan farewell" is folk tune yes, but so powerfully beautiful that Bach could have used it also... Like all "perfect" work of art it is more at the end a mystery than a folk tune for me...

@frogman 

Some people just like to argue and like to fool themselves into believing they have made an irrefutable point.

Your post is ridiculous.  What you have referred me to is a series of didactic, pedagogic pieces written in a pseudo-classical style intended for young students learning the violin.  I have run across more than one of these in the Suzuki teaching series my son went through when he was about 9 years old.  In fact a recording of his playing a Seitz piece, one of those on this page, at that age is my ring-tone for him.  

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and waddles like a duck and has all the indicia of a duck, it's a duck.

Similarly, Ashokan Farewell has ALL the indicia of a folk tune.  It's a folk tune.

Please, let's all go on to something else.

SAying that a duck is a duck is not the peak of knowledge...

Everybody know what a folk tune is...

And everybody know that some melodic line and simple harmony could be also deep music in a way we dont understand...

a duck is a duck only for walking unobservant distracted person...

No duck are like one another, even between ducks there is someting called individuality that pointed to somethink else about "ducks"...

Folk tune are not always only folk tune, they are sometimes key formula in esthetical and in spiritual experience...

The line between folk tune and classical music is not a THIN PERFECT line...

If it was so music would be not a so deep mystery....Ask Bartok...

By the way what i just said is almost common place not an "irrefutable point"..  because there is no arguing here save for you...

But a duck is duck is also a common place affirmation but a bit more superficial...

I will say it my way: all folk tune are not made equal, and all folk tune are not only simple folk tune thats all...

Life is a mystery not always a common place habit...

This folk tune interrogate most people by his beauty and reveal why the frontier between folk music and sophisticated music is not a common place ethnomusical matter only... Bartok thought so....

I apologize for precising my point here...

I go back into my hole....

Merry christmast to all....

There'll always be tunes & performances that exist somewhere between genres. Stop worrying. Love the bomb. ...I mean, the music.