I&#x27;ve been using the somewhat annoying term &quot;art music&quot; instead of classical music to unpack carefully and artistically crafted music from music purely for commercial entertainment &#x2F; not intended for close critique. The instruments used largely don&#x27;t matter -- Chopin <i>is</i> indeed beautiful in certain chip tune arrangements. I&#x27;ll make a slight digression here though by asserting that keeping live performers in the loop adds an additional unreplaceable layer to the music, since the performer then gets to <i>interpert</i> the original music and highlight new patterns within the music.<p>Unfortunately I don&#x27;t know specific books to learn this appreciation (although I know there are excellent ones out there) -- I was raised in this tradition and absorbed it through violin lessons, practice on my instrument, theory class, history class, and listening to a lot of classical music.