Music has been around for many of years that has shaped and changed society in many ways. We see so many rhythmic organizations, it's endless. Throughout the majority of tones and styles to pick from a song, critiquing a song can be difficult at times. The musical piece I will be examining is an album by Quincy Jones, called Walking in Space. This album features 6 tracks of mellow jazz that can be played in any type of environments. The tracks that stood out with different styles are 2, 3, and 6, which are the tracks I will discuss in order.
             Track 2, which is titled, Walking in Space, is a 12 minute 5 seconds musical piece. This song has a clear consistent 2 beat pattern that can easily be distinguished. Although at times this song does have many transitions, meaning instruments heard at one point of the song might instantaneously change to singing or another instrument. The instruments that can be distinguished are the following; Flute, Symbols, Bass, Guitar, Piano, Trumpet, and Drums. Along with the instruments, a lady sings in a
             detached margato style, which is high pitch singing to low pitch singing at times. What is so unique about this piece is the texture, which is how the instruments are played together. The song starts off in a low relaxed tune with a Guitar, Bass, and Trumpet. A lady starts to sing with a rich sounding voice for the first minute and 30 seconds of the song and switches suddenly to instruments being the dominant sound. Every other minute or two the song switches to different instruments such as the Flute, Trumpet, and Piano where one is the dominant sound. Finally reaching the end of the song it repeats back to the lady singing in her rich full voice. I associate this song with more of a Highlife type style, which is night club music with similar instrument mentioned previously. Overall the whole song has a wide range of many different sound levels from high to l
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