Background Music

• It was expected that the performer would know how to Background Music good tempo changes, accentuation, and pauses (among other devices) to obtain this "expressive" performance style

• In the 20th century, virtuosity music notation often became enhanced explicit and used a range of markings and annotations to indicate to performers how they should stage show or sing the piece.

In popular music, guitarists and electric bass players often read music notated in tablature, which indicates the location of the notes to be played on the instrument using a diagram of the guitar or bass fingerboard. Tabulature was also recycled in the Baroque era to notate music for the lute, a stringed, fretted instrument.