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Originally Posted by wontaek
6. Music that is composed in order to be played by any musician willing to study the score ( This is actually the biggest difference between classical music and pop music. In popular/commercial music, the music is supposed to be played by certain person/group, and any one else playing that music is mere copy. In classical music, there is no such thing as the real player and copies, although some musicians do try to imitate peculiarities that another famous musician introduced into playing that certain piece. As long as you pay for the music score, you are legally allowed to perform classical music composed by someone who is alive, right now, to earn some money. In popular music, you cannot play any music to make money unless you get explicit permission from whomever holding the copyright. Of course, this definition is ignoring long tradition of improvisations, cadenzas, and additional decorations by classical music performers. )
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I think that is a good distinction, but jazz and musical theater would also fall under that definition to some degree. Most of it is more recent so someone does hold a copyright, but except for in certain cases musical theater and jazz songs are not composed with a specific person in mind to perform them.