This piece reminds me of what John Cage composed.  The silence in 4 minutes 33 seconds was similar to the silence that was in the song.  Referring to my previous blog, I talked about how the silence was probably meant to be music for a reason because that's the effect the artist wanted to make.  The voice in this piece seemed like the actual music and the silence seemed like the voice.  It had a backward effect to me.  There is a deeper sound within silence itself...

This piece has an older song feel to it, which is something I feel from trying to find a new subject about this.  The slow singing guitar approach is in the tradition of a song done at a fire place.  This does not have a modern sound in the sense of new unheard approach never taken before.

This piece is slow and easy to understand if you speak Spanish, but I do not.  This feels like the first punk song we heard in class, which was hard to understand.  This song was in an English movie that makes me feel that it's only speaking to people who know, like I'm an outsider, but I feel something.

In class, Dr. Parsons said that when he went to go make copies, he heard whistling in the winds.  The whistling of the winds had a musical sound.  As I was listening to Una Palabra, I started to think...what if I the quiet parts of the song were not just quiet for the sake of being quiet, but the sound that no instruments could play?  All the guitar did was add to the melody from time to time.  Before I thought of it, I thought that the guitar was played in the musical piece at the time period it did because he wanted very little instrumental, but I feel as if the guitar and the quietness were music woven toghether.

At this point in time, I'm thinking of regressive listening in the regard that this piece was advertised through the movie, Man on Fire.  I think that it's a song that has been redone by many artists.  Instead of coming out with something new, an old song was used to draw you in.  It doesn't mean that this song was not good, but I just don't know where the line should be drawn when it comes to repetitiveness in terms of songs or media.

The strings of the guitar are played gently to let it soak in for an easy listening. It's like cool jazz in the sense that it is more accessible, plus the words are just as soft with a slow pace.  Nothing pushing a creative line like Miles Davis, but the guitar takes over.  Also, it's like a voice of its own like Miles' music was said to have.

Dr. Parsons said something about listening to pieces by not putting music in a box, and that music is just music.  Because the music was played in the movie, and it had to have his approval, that maybe he wanted his music to be judged by the viewer because music is art and is subjective.