1. Choose one of the pieces from this unit’s listening.
2. Pick one that stands out to you and briefly (1-2 sentences) explain why this particular piece “caught your ear.”
3. What are the piece’s unique characteristics? BE SPECIFIC and use your textbook as your reference! This should be the main part of your mini-essay. This is not opinion – these are facts that you have researched.

Listening: Jazz 2

Cross Road Blues – Robert Johnson (1936) (Links to an external site.)

Composer/Performer: Robert Johnson

William Grant Still: Afro-American Symphony – I. Moderato Assai (Links to an external site.)

Composer: William Grant Still

Suite for Violin and Piano: III (Links to an external site.)

Composer: William Grant Still

Rhapsody in Blue (Links to an external site.)

Composer: George Gershwin