Assignment With detailed reference to a number of examples, discuss the extent to which contemporary musical genres exploit, adapt and extend musical structures, styles and techniques of the past Response Introduction Contemporary music is any music that is written in the present day. It is any genre of present day music. ... Music comes in many different types of structures; forms and style where by many genres have a rich history, geographical significance or roots that go far beyond the 20th century. ... The homophonic writing was certain to support over the polyphony style due to the i...

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New genres are built on the foundations of previous musical innovations and as composers and musicians create more and more new music, the whole universe of music becomes more diverse. The diversity of music results in certain genres becoming more popular than others. ... While other, much younger genres of music experience varying waves of popularity, classical music, as old as it is, still remains a part of our culture. ... Finally, Claudio Monteverdi, was an important composer because he made the genre of opera more popular among other composers and audiences alike. ... Composers started t...

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He is known for writing three voice sacred pieces, settings of antiphons, hymns and mass sections. ... One of the most influential and characteristic genre of the Renaissance was the Madrigal which is a vocal composition combining homophonic and polyphonic textures that is set to a short poem. ... Other innovations such as new instruments such as the trombone and the violin came into play as well as new genres including: variations, prelude, fantasia, toccata, ricercare, canzona, and sonata. The genres provided more challenging approaches to playing than was offered in sacred or secular music....

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