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Before there were all the cart options, I remember going to the cafes near campus that offered combo menus. For a reasonable price, the menu usually had two lists of items and you would choose one from column A and one from column B for a very satisfying lunch.

For our musical version of the combo plate, you are asked to select one composer from column A (just the big three) and one composer from column B (a very long Wikipedia page with composers listed by birth year)

Both composers must share the same, or nearly the same, birth year. The latitude for this is no more than + or - 10 years. We want to place both of them solidly within the Classic era and also within roughly the same generation.

Find one movement of a piece of music by each. that is a total of two tracks for this assignment. Include a link to that specific movement of each piece so that readers of your post can quickly click it to listen. You may use Naxos (a bit easier to pinpoint the exact movement in a longer piece) or YouTube but you are responsible for providing the accurate url. Please be careful in YouTube that your music link takes your reader to exactly the movement you write about.

For each of these two tracks provide clearly the full title of each piece and the exact movement title or number if these are from multi-movement works.

Provide background information on both of the movements of music you have selected and some bio information on the lesser known composer from "column B". Include musical observations based on your own listening as you compare the two tracks. You may find it easier to make a targeted comparison if you select works of a similar genre (for instance, the first movement of a piano sonata by each composer, or the slow movement of a symphony by each, or the minuet movement of a string quartet, or a soprano aria from an opera by each......)

Interesting "fun facts" might include: did the two ever meet? Where did they live, did they study with the same teacher? Were they both performers as well as composers? Did each have a patron?

Alexandrine De Bawr

Music Selection parameters

Column A Classic era composers are limited to the big three we have covered already this term:

Franz Joseph Haydn b. 1732

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart b. 1756

Ludwig van Beethoven b. 1770

Choose just one movement of one piece by one of these "big three" composers.

Column B classic era composers are listed at the page linked below. Scroll to find the birth years you need for a match.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Classical-era_composers#Middle_Classical_era_composers_(born_1730%E2%80%931750)

Choose just one movement of one piece by one of the other classic era composers that you find at this page.

Reply post:

After completing your main post, make an interactive reply post to another student's main post. An interactive reply post shows you've listened to the music they wrote about (supply track timings for your musical observations) and find a link to share with them, that you were inspired to search for after reading their post.

Be sure provide a short bibliography at the end of your main post listing the urls of the sources you consulted. Accessible sources with accurate urls that can easily be consulted by all readers of your post are preferred.

If you find an interesting classic period composer that shares the same birth year as your choice from column A, but they are not listed on the Wikipedia page for column B, check with me ahead of the due date.

Due date info:

100 points possible. 80 for the main post and 20 for the reply.

This discussion is due on Monday June 8th, 11:55 pm. It must be successfully posted to the Discussion 2 forum in D2L.

A solid main post will likely be @ 800 words; reply post about 150-200 words