Jazz music and Classical music

Creativity is important to use new idea and make new things.

 I think Jazz music is a creative music, on the other hand Classical music is not a creative music.

 Most of people think the difference between Jazz music and Classical music are rhythm, or melody. But the main feature of these music are what is necessary to express when performers play music.

The main characteristic of Jazz music is improvisation, so the performer’s personality and originality is very important. 

When performer play Jazz, they read the sheet music which is consisted by melody of theme and chords then revolve the theme little by little, and add arrangement, finally they play the improvisation developed by chords as much as they want. 

Therefore there is no piece that is exactly the same. Jazz music has many pieces by an increment of executant, also it never makes listener bored.

Autumn leaves/Keith Jarret

 Autumn leaves/Bill Evans

However classical music has opposite characteristic. The main characteristic of classical music is faithful representation.

 When performer play Classical music, they need to interpret the sheet music faithfully, consider the composer’s life and period, perform rhythm, melody and tempo correctly, because It is very important to gain a resurgence of composer’s will which is written in sheet music.

If they perform different rhythm or melody, that will be referred as go against the composer’s will, so Performer’s personality and originality are not important for classical music. Sometimes it makes listener very bored.

According to these reasons, Jazz music is creative and Classical music is not creative, because the main aspect of Jazz music is improvisation and the main feature of Classical music is faithful representation. I think creativity can make new things, but not creativity is also important, because in this case, Classical music is the original point of the music. To create new things we also need fundament.