In classical music, standard practice is for musicians to use sheet music while performing. In rock music, that would be laughable. In jazz, sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.
So at what point in musical history did it become normal not to use sheet music, and why did this happen?
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Live jazz music was supposed to be improvised. Folk, country, blues and other roots forms were never written down in the first place. Until the advent of recorded music, they only existed live. And rock grew out of those traditions.
So I don't thin it's that it became normal not to use sheet music. It's that there was no sheet music.
I'm not sure that's an answer, but those are my thoughts.
Right, I keep forgetting that the evolution of music wasn't actually linear.
Sheet music should just be for learning. Then one plays from the heart, plays the feeling, not reading notes!
That's good brain practice too.
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