What do you perceive to be the strengths or weaknesses in each piece from an aesthetic point of view?

Billie Holiday’s Billies Blues and George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue)

This assignment requires you to 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 use examples to support your opinions.