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.

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.

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.