​Choose two pieces from the list below: one from Section A and one from Section B. After listening to each of the pieces, write a comparative description, or “analysis”, of the two pieces.

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Choose two pieces from the list below: one from Section A and one from Section B. After listening to each of the pieces, write a comparative description, or “analysis”, of the two pieces. You can listen to each piece you have chosen as many times as you want: the more you listen, the more you will understand the selection. In addition to describing what you hear about each selection, compare and contrast the two. For example, what musical components (ie tempo, instrumentation, texture, etc) are similar? How are they different? Would you expect to hear these two selections together in a performance? Lastly, provide some background information on both the composers and the composition.

Additional information regarding the assignment:

Be sure to list the names of the two pieces in the assignment.

This assignment should be approximately 2 pages long: 12 point font, double spaced

SECTION A

Machaut, Agnus Dei from Notre Dame Mass

Handel, Ev’ry Valley Shall Be Exalted, from Messiah

Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Movement 2

SECTION B

Smetena, The Moldau

Debussy, Prelude a L’Apres-midi d’un faune

Varese, Poeme Electronique