Re)Consider the following pieces of music and their provided documentaries, focu

Re)Consider the following pieces of music and their provided documentaries, focusing on each work’s subject matter, form, content, and context:
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (Fantastical Symphony), op. 14 [French. 1830. Romanticism]
Work in Naxos Music Library Web Player (database)
Documentary Video from Films on Demand (in Canvas)
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64 [German. 1844. Romanticism]
Work in Naxos Music Library Web Player (database)
Documentary Video from Films on Demand (in Canvas)
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor “From the New World”, op. 95 [Czech. 1893. Romanticism]
Work in Naxos Music Library Web Player (database)
Documentary Video from Films on Demand (in Canvas)
Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) [Austrian. 1908. Romanticism/Modernism]
Work in Naxos Music Library Web Player (database)
Documentary Video from Films on Demand (in Canvas)
Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra [Hungarian. 1943-1945. Modernism]
Work in Naxos Music Library Web Player (database)
Documentary Video from Films on Demand (in Canvas)
Prompt
After studying each of the above pieces of music write a 250- to 300-word response in which you explain the value(s) expressed by FOUR of these works. Your response should be formatted in four succinct and detailed paragraphs, with each paragraph including a simple work title header (e.g., Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major), as follows:
HEADING/WORK ONE [Not included in word count]: State the artist’s name, properly-punctuated work title, and other relevant information for your chosen work. Please do not simply copy-and-paste this information from above, but retype it exactly as it is modeled. Then, skip a line before your paragraph.
PARAGRAPH/WORK ONE—INTERPRETIVE CRITICISM [50-75 words]: Based on the provided information about your chosen work—as well as your own thoughts and analysis—state and explain what value(s) you believe it expresses. Your explanation of how this work expresses the value(s) must consider how the work’s subject matter is transformed into content by its form (be specific!), while it may also consider its context (though you may not quote or paraphrase the provided material). In other words, what specifically about this work’s form gives it meaning and, as a result, allows it to express the stated value(s)? The most significant aspects of form in our study of music are melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre (tone color), and dynamics. Please remember that interpretive criticism should not include any evaluation of the work regarding its quality or your opinion about it.
SKIP a couple of lines after discussing your chosen work before your next work.
REPEAT the above instructions for your second, third, and fourth chosen works.
******When discussing pieces of music, do NOT mention any imagery that they inspire (e.g., no “I imagined running through a field of flowers” or “I pictured myself dancing in a ballroom”) or any cartoons/films that they remind you of (e.g., NO mention of Tom & Jerry or Disney films), unless specifically required by the prompt.******
Requirements
Your response must be based completely on YOUR analysis of this work, without any outside research or use of AI. For the sake of learning, you are encouraged to discuss a work with which you are not already familiar.
You may review any course material for this assignment, though your work must be completely your own and—unless stated above—may not include ideas from, quotations from, or paraphrases of such material.
After first stating a work’s information in your response, using proper punctuation, you should simply refer to it as “the work” or “Bach’s concerto” (for example) for the remainder of your discussion of the work.
Your response must be within this assignment’s word limits, meaning it must not be shorter than 250 words, nor longer than 300 words. Responses that are too short or too long will not be eligible to earn full credit.
Your response must be submitted as text in the provided text box. Responses submitted as file attachments rather than as text will not be graded and may not be resubmitted after the assignment closes.
You are encouraged to review the below grading rubric before beginning work on this assignment, as well as before submitting your response, in order to be as successful as possible on this Gordon Rule assignment.
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Discipline: Intro to humanities