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Originally Posted by Afrobean

Is there seriously no Japanese word for "classical"? Or do they just use a Japanization of the English word to differentiate between western classical music and their equivalent form of classical music.

My teacher does use a Japanese word for classical but I can't think of what it is at this moment. I know it's just using katakana to sound it out similar to the English word, so there may be different words to differentiate between the hemispheres.