Personal Narrative: Major Media Project

Major Media Project: Exposition My project is an original song that I wrote using only the electric guitar. The song begins with three parts singing together. The first of these parts is the echoing bass notes of D and G, driving the interval of a perfect fourth. The second is a muted, rhythmic line that consists of four notes and repeats on the beat. The third is simply a high F# played using the technique of harmonics and highly effected by reverb. These three parts play together on a loop throughout the entire piece, and represent the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. There is no real defining start to these parts, which represents the idea of a God without beginning. What is played thereafter (what might be considered the melody)
An air of awe characterizes the fourth day, reflecting upon the creation of the heavenly bodies. When day five comes along, with the first creation of life, the A chord is emphasized in an almost eerie way, anticipating the next day. Finally, day six is introduced with a resounding B minor chord. I try to emphasize this as the culmination of creation thus far, as man is created in the image of the Trinity. This is illustrated by the B minor chord being built off of three parts of the trinity, adding only the note “B” to the mix. At this point, I return to the D major chord to represent God’s enthronement on day seven. The final movement of the piece is an interaction between the days of creation. I move between the chords in a much more melodic sense, trying to recreate the first days of the world. However, the piece ends with a few strikes of the note B that I bend and distort. This distortion of the B note represents the fall of man. As a result of this distortion, all the notes down from B are distorted as well. Only the underlying notes representing the Trinity are immune from this distortion. It is with these notes that the piece ends, representing the eternal sovereignty of