Write a detailed comparison of any two listening selections (Billie Holiday’s Billies Blues and George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue) found in the textbook (The Enjoyment of Music Essential Listening FOURTH EDITION Kristine Forney and Andrew Dell’Antonio)
Your music study should cover the following, in full sentences:
Identify:
The full titles of the pieces
The composers’ full names, birth and death dates, and nationalities
The years when the pieces were written and where they fall within the composers’ lifetimes.
Compare: Juxtapose the two pieces using these criteria:
instrumentation
form
harmony
tempo
meter
texture
style period
text (if any)
absolute or programmatic meaning
sacred or secular orientation
Evaluate: What do you perceive to be the strengths or weaknesses in each piece from an aesthetic point of view?
This will involve subjective judgment on your part, but please use examples to support your opinions.
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