Performing Media

How do you think the various elements of music (discussed in Part I of your text) are manipulated by the composer to create a musical work? In your response, refer to excerpts/examples from at least two works taken from the list of listening examples for Module 1 and discuss how the elements of music are manipulated by the composer.

Elements:
1) Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone color
2) Performing Media: Voices and Instruments
3) Rhythm
4) Music Notation
5) Melody
6) Harmony
7) Key
8) Musical Texture
9) Musical Form

Examples:
1) Over the Rainbow (1938), by Harold Arlen
2) C-Jam Blues, by Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra For more information on Performing Media Check: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fandom_(website)