(March 12, 2018 at 10:58 pm)Little lunch Wrote:(March 12, 2018 at 12:21 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: It utilizes the exact same Western music theory that classical composers have used. There is no "jazz theory" or "classical theory". The intervals are exactly the same, the chord descriptors are the same, it's just that the theory is describing two different styles of music. A diminished chord is a diminished chord, a flatted seventh is a flatted seventh, and so on.
Except for that one thing where double quavers are almost always read as a dotted quaver and a semi-quaver making 4/4 bars sound like a couple of 6/8s.
The differences are stylistic. You needn't trust me, the Gershwins milked that cow eight decades ago in Porgy & Bess.
On top of the beat, on the beat, or behind the beat, the time is the same -- only the emphasis changes. We musicians call that "feel".
