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Unit 4: Innovations

Quick questions on Analysing innovation in context: WACE Year 12 Music

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What are innovation across the three contexts?
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Each context shows characteristic kinds of innovation:
What is the role of technology?
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Many innovations are enabled by technology: multitrack recording, amplification, synthesisers, sampling and digital production have each opened new musical possibilities. Strong context analysis links a musical feature to the technology that made it possible, for example explaining how studio overdubbing allowed layered vocal textures that could not be produced live.

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