The Film: Titanic by Director James Cameron; The Song: Nearer My God to Thee; By Composer James Horner and Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra.

 The Song can be from here: http://www.soundtrack.net/albums/database/?id=1504

Track number seven.

 The situation, where this musical piece was played within the film, was when the boat was submerging deeper in to the ocean. As one band member started playing this song, a few of his fellow members, join in as a montage of shots showed the circumstances of the environment around them. The music piece relates perfectly with the setting of the montage, which is showing shots of how certain characters were dealing with the sinking ship. Some were saying goodbye in their own form of welcoming death, or trying to survive by getting to the back of the boat, rowing away in a life boat, or by any means possible.

The tone of music playing over the montage, that had some dialogue and non dialogue shots, made me feel for the people who were welcoming death in their own way. One shot from the montage, made me feel honorable for the captain, who was closing the doors to go down with his ship, as we saw the water enclosing his quarters he was in. Also, I felt respect for the builder of the ship, setting the clock one more time, and glaring at the fireplace knowing he has failed and has built a ship that was sinking to the bottom of the ocean. The music was perfect for the shot of an old couple, lying in bed holding hands, sharing one last moment of love together, as water rushes right below them.  The lowing of the music, but is still heard, in the shot of the mother talking to her children, about how heaven is going to be, just broke my heart. The ending shots seen as the musical piece is played, but more dialogue is being heard, are the people trying to live. They are racing to the back of the boat or trying to cut the ropes in order to row away in the remaining life boats. The very last shot as the music piece ends is the most touching. The band stops playing, and as the water is a few feet away, and the one guy who started playing the song, says it was an honor playing together. Since they could have just gone their own ways, and maybe had a better chance of surviving, they all stayed and played one more song.

The musical piece was very effective for the scene which is was used in, to give a short montage of how people were dealing with the sinking of the ship, as that point in time of the movie. The song was a great use of simultaneous sound. The digenetic use of the onscreen sound was a perfect fit.  The frequency and pitch of the music was flawlessly done. The music just enables the sad and powerful message the director was trying to address to the audience at that point in the film.  It succeed big time in evoking the intended response, by every time you hear the song being played, you think to how bad it much of been in those final moments on the ship titanic as it was sinking.