Jeremey McMillan wrote:

>What was classical and what was popular in the 19th century? How can one
>make the distinction?

That's easy.  There wasn't one.  And Bill Pirkle's distinction on the basis
of continuous time-keeping percussion therefore falls even further apart.
If it has any validity at all, which I doubt, it can only apply to the 20th
century.  And not to the first couple of decades because I think, without
checking my copy of James Blades on percussion instruments, that the hi-hat
cymbals on which he places such importance did not appear until well into
the 1920s.

Ian Crisp
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