Tuesday, December 17, 2019

"Days Are Numbers (The Traveller)"

In "Days Are Numbers (The Traveller)," "around" in the line "He never has the time to turn around" is sung with a melisma (C D C A) for a sense of movement, and "so" in the lines "We can only see so far" and "We can only go so far" is sung with a melisma (D E D, I think) for a sense of degree.

Monday, December 16, 2019

"Let's Talk about Me"

I listened to Vulture Culture a couple weeks ago and noticed a handful of things.  In what the APP website credits as "oral rendition" in "Let's Talk about Me," the television station WGN and Wrigley Field are mentioned (in the right channel) in the section starting at ~2:46.  Both of these are in Chicago.

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

"Dancing on a High Wire"

I'm getting behind in writing about things I'm noticing as I continue to make my way through The Complete Albums Collection box set for a second time.  I listened to Ammonia Avenue on 29 November and noticed a small thing in "Dancing on a High Wire."  In the line "You need to be so sure" at ~3:55, the "sure" is sung with a melisma (G F D), musically giving a sense of degree (for that "so").

In referencing the recording again now, I noticed that some of the "so"s in that recurring line are also sung with a melisma (C D), also for a sense of degree.