He and his friends poured over Western books, enjoyed Western classical music and even began to opt for Western-style toilets over Chinese ones.

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It is tempting to contrast the formal, intellectual way that much Western classical music expresses emotion with the mystical, organic way that we hear with Mambazo.

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Western classical music was introduced into Japan about a century ago, and since then has become one of the West's most successful exports to that country.

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Western classical music is permitted, but in limited doses.

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Just as Kandinsky turned his back on figuration, so did the atonal composers of the early 20th century, led by Arnold Schoenberg, abandon tonal harmony, the fundamental ordering principle on which all Western classical music had previously been based.

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Music teachers there are in great demand and tend to focus only on Western classical or Eastern classical music.

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It is not meant to be representative of (Western) classical music.

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The school specializes in Arabic instruments such as the kanoun, a triangular stringed instrument a little like a horizontal harp, and the oud, a pear-shaped stringed instrument similar to a lute, and also teaches Western classical instruments and music theory.

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Mr. COLEMAN: Well, I happen to be (unintelligible) and it has all kinds of qualities I deal with human emotion like hillbilly music, blues, country and western, classical, oh, I grew up in all those kinds of environments.

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