The Red Chord

Assignment #1 Engagement Strategy When first meeting with a client, it is imperative to establish rapport, as well as engaging the client. In order to build rapport, a social worker must create a safe and welcoming environment in which the client feels accepted, understood, and respected. The most important moments of the relationship between the social worker and the client often happens at the beginning of the relationship, the initial contact (Birkenmaier, Berg-Weger, & Dewess, 2013,…

Texas woman came to Eric asking him to write a piece in remembrance of her parents married for 50 years who passed away in a fatal car accident. Through its slow tempo which is so powerful and it 's beautiful softer dynamic range to its magnificent chords sung by the choir in much louder dynamic ranges later in the piece shows the power,…

In the first part of Contrapunctus 1, the exposition, an organ introduces the main theme (subject) with the alto range. The theme’s melody starts low, rises to the highest pitch, then waivers around the first pitch of the theme. Performed in quadruple meter, the exposition’s main theme is mostly conjunct with one disjunct phrase in the middle. After the subject is introduced by the alto the soprano answers by repeating the subject at a higher pitch. Following the soprano’s answer the bass…

When you read music, you read it off what is called a staff. A staff consists of four spaces and five lines. On the four spaces and five lines are notes. At the beginning of the staff you will always see either a Treble Clef or a Bass cleft. Each indicates what and where the starting note will be when you are reading your music. On a Treble clef, the line that it wraps around will always be G. When you look at a note that’s anywhere along that line, it’s always a G. Now, with the Base cleft it’s…

Music is something we all enjoy and love listening to. It has shaped this country and the world as we know it. It is important we take a step back and examine how music of all types makes us feel. Histoire du Tango is a piece written for flute and guitar by Astor Piazolla (1921-1992). This piece of of music is very wonderful to listen to. The genre is classic tango but has hints of modernism with the way the composer wrote the piece. Piazolla is a big fan of using the guitar to play a rhythm…

2 Concepts of Music used in the song "Livin' On A Prayer" by Bon Jovi Dynamics and General Overview This song is written in E minor. At the start of the song without vocals (0:00-0:22) the sound is at a low dynamic, there is little sound. There is a faint sound of an organ, which is only playing one continuous note. Then an electric guitar and castanet comes in a bit later, slightly louder. At 0:23 the sound is louder. There is someone cupping their mouth over the microphone with added effects…

The change in melody is drastic. The first transition area starts with a D major chord in m. 44, firmly establishing home key. The melody in the transition starts in the first violins in m. 44. This melody contains a lower neighbor motif, moving from an A5 down a half-step to a G#5 back up a half-step to a A5 before descending in an…

a bit. A lot of the singing seems to be staccato, adding to the long pauses. There's also legato that's connecting the song. Harmony- There is no vocal harmony, when he continues the singing, for a breath of time, it adds an echoing effect. The chords are played in a pentatonic format. Timbre- There's an Arabic style of music incorporated into this song. The influence is heard when the violin plays after the main riff (3:25). Even the vocals are influenced by the Arabic style during the…

considered modal, apart from being diatonic to a mode (traditional or synthetic), needs to contain no alterations. This also applies to modal harmonic content. Persichetti states that “a pure modal passage is one in which a modal melody is harmonized with chords from the same mode and on the same tonal center.” In reference to modal jazz, this concept is what Ron Miller has described as modal simple. This notion of harmonic modality is somehow reminiscent…

critic and editor while in Vienna. Upon analyzing classical pieces from the 18th century, Schenker started tinkering with the idea of secondary dominant chords. It was in his book Harmonielehre were he stated that in a harmonic scale, if you take the fifth and stack another fifth on top of it, you will find that chord’s secondary dominant chord. This theory paved the way toward smoother key changes and…