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Is It Acceptable for Composers To Borrow and/or Adapt Existing Music? Give Examples to Support Your Answer.
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Is It Acceptable for Composers To Borrow and/or Adapt Existing Music? Give Examples to Support Your Answer. Music has been stolen, borrowed and adapted for centuries! Some of the first examples of borrowing music dates back to the 13th Century and Choral and Church music! During the 13th Century there were many types of musicians. Apart from Monks and their plainsong style of music there were jongleurs, troubadours, trouveres, minnesingers and itinerant minstrels which all contributed to music of the day! Though these secular musicians did not engage in choral activity they did create a vocal tradition that was soon to "borrow" musical ideas from the church as the sacred motet transmogrified into the secular madrigal. The madrigal appeared as the secular equivalent of the sacred motet in the late thirteenth century. The madrigal writers immediately adopted the style of having each part as an original composition rather than...
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