Writing Assignment
Wozzeck, Excerpt from Act III by Alban Berg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viXMstoz5_Q
Ritual Melodies by Jonathan Harvey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrcYI3hPhLM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgX85tZf1ts
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven by Charles Ives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8jtKb2phpI
Pavanne by Gabriel Fauré, arr. Ogerman (Bill Evans)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91Ji_D0nQW4
Concerto Grosso 1985 by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVIIHmrtvFA
The Young Person’s Guide to Orchestra by Benjamin Britten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vbvhU22uAM
Choose three of these seven listening selections above and compare their compositional techniques. Why do they sound so different from each other and yet are still from the same time period? Of the three you discuss, which do you like the most? Why?
