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Comparison: Bach's "Little" fugue in G minor & Handel's Hallelujah

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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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1. Choose an original song and a cover version of that song. Post both versions using the YouTube embed button. Label the original and the cover.
2. Briefly, describe at least two elements of music that are different in the original version as compared to the cover version and at least one element that is the same. Please use correct musical vocabulary and highlight all musical vocabulary terms in bold font.
3. 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?

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00112630 Musical Element Comparison
Name Course Instructor Date
Name 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.
1. Choose an original song and a cover version of that song. Post both versions using the YouTube embed button. Label the original and the cover.
Original- Ray Charles: /watch?v=c8TJnoa2WTg
Cover- Humble Pie /watch?v=-gWqrP30YXQ
2. Briefly, describe at least two elements of music that are different in the original version as compared to the cover version and at least one element that is the same. Please use correct musical vocabulary and highlight all musical vocabulary terms in bold font.
Ray Charles sang the R & B song I Don’t Need No Doctor while Humble Pie did a hard-rock cover of the same song. Humble Pie changed the pitch and the tempo of singing. The Humble Pie band tries to incorporate more high notes in their singing, which changes the song’s pitch from Charles’s version. While Ray Charles’s version is slow and mid-...
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