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