Pros And Cons Of The Patronage System

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After reading about the Patronage System in the book, I believe there are more pros in the system. One of the big pros is being sponsored by a noblest or an aristocrat. Now artists would be able to receive pay for the music they perform or wrote. This also increased the need of musicians to perform for these aristocrat, giving many different the people the possibility to follow a music career. This also created many opportunities for women to get more involved with music. Noblest would hire women to sing in operas and in court ballets. Some women played in the instruments, while other would teach the children of the noblest. Another pro about the system was that the noblest would let them play their music in a concert hall, allow it to be

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