Solo trombone in the context of contemporary musical genre trends: compositional and performance aspects

Abstract

Genre in music, as well as in art in general, is a changing mirror system through which life is analyzed. Therefore, any definitions and classifications of musical genres are not fixed but are in constant development – either being updated, disappearing for a while, or emerging in unexpected new perspectives. Based on the thoughts of Carl Dahlhaus [1], Lithuanian musicologist Grazhina Daunoravičienė [2] defines this process as «genre chromatism».