Abstract

The author conducted a survey to determine classical music performers’ rhythm and phrase recognition scores based on sight-reading of a jazz ad-lib solo. Classical music performers generally take the 1st and 3rd quarter as accented beats when performing 4/4 beat phrases. However, jazz performers generate their ad-lib phrases, taking the 2nd and 4th quarter as accented beats. Thus, for the classical music performers, sight-reading of a generated jazz phrase is difficult.

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