Wednesday, May 15, 2019
"Turn Your Heart Around"
When I listened to Keats a couple days ago, I also noticed a small thing in "Turn Your Heart Around." "On" in the line "This can't go on" is sung with a melisma (E F#), giving a sense of continuation.
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Turn Your Heart Around
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
"How Can You Walk Away"
I listened to Keats yester-day and noticed a few things in "How Can You Walk Away," specifically in the chorus:
How can you walk away
How can you leave
How can you turn away
When our love was incomplete
Both "away"s (Bb G F) and "leave" (F D) are sung with melismas, which all give a musical sense of movement. There's also a slant rhyme between "leave" and "incomplete," so the nature of being "incomplete" is demonstrated poetically.
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How Can You Walk Away
Friday, May 10, 2019
"The Ace of Swords"
Last week, I learned the clavinet part in the introduction in "The Ace of Swords," so I made an updated recording:
Since I last recorded this, I got a new keyboard (a Nord Electro 5D), and some of the sounds are a lot better (for what it's worth, I used French harpsichord D and clavinet C). I included the bass part in the audio but not the video.
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recordings,
The Ace of Swords
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