Defining music as alternative is often difficult because of two conflicting applications of the word.

Peel would later comment on this session as one that "defines essential music".

It consists of bands coming from towns all over the country who have decided to define American music on their own terms.

One question raised: How exactly do you define "folk music?"

IT is hard to know, anymore, exactly how to define contemporary Western classical music.

This is nothing new; such crises almost define American music.

Jacques Attali, on the other hand, defines music itself as "the organization of noise".

Which leads to the question of how to define classical music, on or off the Internet, and what forms are enjoying the most popularity.

And people, however they define classical music, will now have more ways to get it.

This work defined Polish themed music and is thought to include his greatest works.