Musical Compositions

INSTRUCTIONS Please write short essays of 300-500 words (except Signature Assignment) discussing the following topics and submit by the due date posted. When talking about musical compositions, please make sure to find out and include in your essay A DATE OF COMPOSITION (This will be one way to acknowledge the number of years each of these works continues to live in people’s hearts after it was created).   When discussing a review/article, address author by name. Do not use word “song” for any kind of music you are describing. Song is a composition for voice and piano/accompaniment. Use a general term like “piece,”, “work,” “composition.” Be aware that composer is a person who wrote the music, those that you see in the videos are performers.   ASSIGNMENT Listen to Rachmaninov’s “Musical Moment no. 4.” Describe its emotional impact on you and its melody, tempo, harmonies that help to create it. After listening to Nikolai Lugansky and Ya-Fei Chuang performances, compare the two. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23kU0ZRQJwk — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhLDse5R8dQ >>  View/Complete