Music A-Level
Musical fusion
What Musical fusion means in Music A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The blending of traditional musical features with contemporary elements and styles within a piece of music.
The combining of traditional tango with contemporary elements drawn from jazz and classical music.
Topics that use Musical fusion
- Area of study 6: Contemporary traditional music (AQA A-Level)
- Area of study 6: Contemporary traditional music - Named artists (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Cross-cultural fusion
- Electronic and acoustic fusion
- English traditional folk and sea shanties
- Fado and Saudade
- Fusion of folk, jazz, and classical elements
- Fusion of traditional and contemporary instrumentation
- Globalisation of traditional music
- Harmonic innovation
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