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The genres and styles of music are so numerous it is next to impossible to categorize all of them. Every single day artists come up with new ways to interpret previous concepts in sound and new ways to create sounds. Generally, new music does not just arise out of nowhere, but is the result of a combination of previous styles and/or an advancement in technology and/or a shift in cultural attitudes. Today we will be listening to all sorts of music from all over the world, spanning a time frame from present day back four hundred years. Our objective is to use the terminology we've learned about instrumentation and texture to attempt to understand what we're listening to, what part of a culture it represents, what it might be used/written for, and how it is related to the music we may listen to today. If you've not heard some (or all) of this before, this is your introduction to some of the wacky stuff that's out there!
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