Assignment
Compare and Contrast Essay
Compare and Contrast essay of a minimum of 250 words on two different pieces by the same composer.
Here is a list of pieces to choose from
All of these pieces are available on YouTube
You must choose from this list
Johann Sebastian Bach – Cello Suite #1 – Mass in B minor
George Frederick Handel – Messiah and Music for the Royal Fireworks
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Requiem and Gran Partita
Joseph Haydn – Trumpet Concerto and Symphony #94
Ludwig van Beethoven – Leonore Overture #3 and Symphony #3
Johannes Brahms – Academic Festival Overture and Symphony #1
Peter Tchaikovski – Romeo and Juliet and Symphony #5
Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings and Overture to the School for Scandal
Sergei Prokofiev – Peter and the Wolf and Symphony #1
Igor Stravinski – Octet for Winds and The Rite of Spring
John Adams – Short Ride in a Fast Machine and City Noir
Hector Berlioz – Symphony Fantastique and Damnation of Faust
Leonard Bernstein – Overture to Candide and Slava
Gustav Mahler – Symphony #1 and Symphony #8
Paul Hindemith – Mathis der Mahler and Symphonic Metamorphosis
Charles Ives – Variation on America and The Unanswered Question
The essay requires a minimum of two hundred words and written and submitted as one document.
This essay should reflect the concepts and ideas that we have used in our lessons and must be entirely in the student’s own words.The emphasis must be an aural observations of the music and not a description of the composer’s life.Do NOT include biographical material. Do NOT include historical material.
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