Writing Homework Help

This assignment is designed to assess your progress in the following module goals:

• Aurally identify and describe musical differences between an original musical work and a cover or arrangement.
• Hypothesize why a modern composer would choose to create a new arrangement of an original work.

Instructions

In this lesson, you learned about Bach’s “Little” Fugue in G minor and the orchestral arrangement by Leopold Stokowski. You also listened to Handel’s famous “Hallelujah” chorus from Messiah and explored several cover versions of that famous song.

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• Choose an original song and a cover version of that song. Post both versions with live YouTube links (make sure they are highlighted in blue!). Label the original and the cover with the title and the artist. You may not use any musical works that were used as examples of covers and arrangements in this module.
• Briefly, use musical vocabulary terms to describe at least two elements of music that are different in the original version as compared to the cover version.
• Use musical vocabulary terms to describe at least one element that is the same.
• Please demonstrate that you understand what the musical vocabulary means and highlight all musical vocabulary terms in bold font. You should use a minimum of three vocabulary terms. However, you are advised to use as many as you can to demonstrate your knowledge.
• Use critical thinking to answer the following question: Why would a musical artist choose to make a cover version of an existing musical work rather than write their own original work? Be specific and provide an example to support your reasoning.