In ‘Respect’ there are many different musical lines that bring together the piece. In the intro of the song it is just the brass, guitar, and drums playing for four measures until Aretha Franklin starts singing. The back-up singers and the piano’s entrance is about a half of a beat after Aretha’s entrance. At this point all of the instruments are in full swing. The brass has a solo about half way through the song; the saxophone having the melody and the trombone and trumpets playing the harmony. Also this solo is the loudest part of the entire piece, having to be at a fortissimo or fortississimo. The tempo of the entire piece is the same, staying at a steady pace, my guess is it would be conducted in four four or a slow cut time.
The genre of this song is soul and R&B, most of Arehta’s songs are a combination of soul, R&B, and gospel. I have listened to a few different recordings of this song and in each one …show more content…
She is basically agreeing to give Otis the respect he wants, if he can give her the respect she demands. She also warns him at the end that if he cannot give it to her, she'll find someone else who can, which is what the whole of the last verse is explaining.
Aretha Franklin's 1967 hit may seem like a pretty benign piece of soulful fun, but at the time it came out, this song about a decaying relationship had more than one meaning. Iit was the perfect pop song: energetic, catchy, heartfelt, and sexually suggestive. However it was the perfect song for the political moment: it was the voice of a strong black woman demanding respect and showing her power. Even though ‘Respect’ was composed by a Otis Redding as a wailing about a bad relationship dynamic it is exciting and familiar chorus spelling out "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" quickly came to mean something much
The genre of this song is soul and R&B, most of Arehta’s songs are a combination of soul, R&B, and gospel. I have listened to a few different recordings of this song and in each one …show more content…
She is basically agreeing to give Otis the respect he wants, if he can give her the respect she demands. She also warns him at the end that if he cannot give it to her, she'll find someone else who can, which is what the whole of the last verse is explaining.
Aretha Franklin's 1967 hit may seem like a pretty benign piece of soulful fun, but at the time it came out, this song about a decaying relationship had more than one meaning. Iit was the perfect pop song: energetic, catchy, heartfelt, and sexually suggestive. However it was the perfect song for the political moment: it was the voice of a strong black woman demanding respect and showing her power. Even though ‘Respect’ was composed by a Otis Redding as a wailing about a bad relationship dynamic it is exciting and familiar chorus spelling out "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" quickly came to mean something much