Hi @musicapoetica,
Thank you for an interesting post on music improvisation. Your observation that improvisation is inherently risky, and discouraged in the "perfection based" era of music is interesting. It flies in the face of the popular understanding of both classical music and modern music. I was reminded of this post today, when watching a Beethoven documentary on youtube. It would be interesting to see the sort of live improvisation contests that they held in Beethoven's time, and even in the time of Scott Joplin. I'm not aware that those sorts of contests are very common now, though.
I wanted to let you and your readers know that this post was selected for sharing on the Steemit's Best Classical Music Facebook page, and included in our Roundup Issue #24.
Here is a slightly funny take on it...
Just to provide context, this is the video from the documentary. @remlaps didn't realize it was a separate video that could be included:
That is a great video! Jazz and rap have their improvisation competitions, so the skills are still upheld. Just in different fields of music!