Re: Is Jazz and modern Classical music?

Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 03:04:13 GMT
Newsgroups: rec.music.compose
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"StrangeCat" <email-address-deleted> wrote in
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> Jazz it started with people being influenced by African rythms playing
> the music with out following the rules of thumb harmony from classical
> music, and from that we have the Harmony for Jazz, but There just
> bigger chords...If you take away the Accents and rythems in Jazz isn't
> that close to more modern style of Harmony for classical music. Just
> bigger Chords? Double major etc...Like what even means classical music
> for this time?. I dont' consider American film scores classical music
> but maybe there would be a track in there that would have some
> classical influence, then I am trying to figure out why I consider it
> classical in the first place. Steve-O
>
>
This is an interestng question, as my city's local public radio station
constantly refers to jazz as "American classical music". Certainly, I beg
to differ.
Jazz is no more "classical" music than scat-singing is opera catterwalling.
Besides, I've often asked, if jazz is "classical" music, then what is Aaron
Copland's?
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