Assessing Audience, Defining Terms, and Providing Context
Audiences with significant musical or contextual knowledge (for example, professional musicologists or musicians)
Think about the writing decisions you make along an
audience spectrum:
The more your audience knows,
the less you will need to provide context and define terms.
The less your audience knows,
the more you will need to provide context and define terms.
Audiences with less musical or contextual knowledge (for example, students in the law school, or public audiences)