Jazz vs Classical - What's the difference?
jazz | classical |
(music) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
Energy, excitement, excitability. Very lively.
The (in)tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a thing.
Unspecified thing(s).
(lb) Of excellent quality, the genuine article.
Nonsense.
To play jazz music.
To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite
To complicate.
To have sex with.
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, page 59:
To destroy.
To distract/pester.
Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
* Arbuthnot
Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
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(music) Describing European music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
(informal, music) Describing serious music (rather than pop, jazz, blues etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
* Macaulay
Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.
* Macaulay
(physics) Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.
As a proper noun jazz
is .As an adjective classical is
of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.jazz
English
Alternative forms
* jaz, jas, jass, jaszNoun
(-)- What jazz were you referring to earlier?
- What is all this jazz lying around?
- I'm just going down to the shops and jazz = I am off to purchase items and etcetera.
- That show was the jazz ! = That musical concert/television program was most enjoyable.
- This risotto is simply the jazz . = This risotto was cooked in the classic manner.
- Stop talking jazz .
Verb
- Don’t jazz it too much! = Be careful, it was good to start with!
- ‘Jazzing ?’ Temple whispered [...]. ‘Yes, putty-face!’ the woman said. ‘How do you suppose I paid that lawyer?’
- You’ve gone and jazzed it now! = It is ruined.
- Stop jazzing me! = Leave me alone.
References
classical
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Mr. Greaves may justly be reckoned a classical author on this subject.
- Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
- He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college.
- Classical , provincial, and national synods.