George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue

The classical piece of music I choose was “Rhapsody in Blue.” This selection of music has an impressionistic vibe and the music tends to runs freely as if it is being improvised. In 1924 the composer George Gershwin wrote the composition “Rhapsody in Blue,” this piece took only three weeks to write. “Rhapsody in Blue” is not jazz but classical music, yet it have a jazzlike and blues sound. This component uses jazzlike rhythms, melodies and a 32-bar chorus fixed in fours of ABAB, ABCA or AABCs. “Rhapsody in Blue” begin B flat major and ends in the same key but Gershwin uses a variety of keys throughout “Rhapsody in Blue.” The instruments Gershwin used in this piece were Solo piano, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 2 alto saxophones, tenor saxophone, 3 French horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, gong, triangle, 1st violins, 2d violins, violas, cellos, double

This genre of music started in America in the 1970’s. Lauryn Hill style of music is Hip Hop, Urban, and Neo-Soul. Hill message in the “Doo Wop” song was to teach people respect themselves, to know how to love people with sexual actions. This song to have released in 1998, on The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill album. The song begins with four simple notes being played on the keyboard repetitively. The vocalist being Lauryn starts to sing after the first four notes are delivered. “Doo Wop” piano note consists of the same keys being played for majority of the song, until the chord progression towards the ending. The music had a very rhythmic melody and some of the instruments only played in harmony before they broke off into separate notes. This song is played in duple meter and on an A minor scale. The instruments used in this song are Piano, Violin, horns guitar and percussion. In this song production, the use vocal layers to make Lauryn Hill voice sound thinker and to give it a harmonic