Dena Register (see below for her 2016 article) sees our advocacy styles as falling into three different categories. Renaissance music (c. 1400 to 1600) was more focused on secular (non-religious) themes, such as courtly love Around 1450, the printing press was invented, which made printed sheet music much less expensive and easier to mass-produce (prior to the invention of the printing press, all notated music was hand-copied).

Songwriters and electronic music producers (as they are typically both writer and performer) are predisposed to be good at it. And it’s a breath of fresh air, according to my artists, whom see it as inspirational and a break from their typical music making routine.

Even when the performer him-self does not invent, or improvise (as was the case in the past and in most present-day performances of music by preliterate peoples), but more or less freely reproduces the music invented by …