Thursday, January 23, 2020

"Winding Me Up"

I was thinking about "Winding Me Up" yester-day and discovered a small feature in the first verse.  In the line "There wasn't any doubt," "any doubt" is sung with melismas (D C | C B), so while negated, there's a sense of the broadness of possibility of "any."

In thinking about the song again to-day, I realized that in the line "'Cause woman you ain't so strong" in the chorus, "so strong" is also sung with melismas (G E | E D), musically giving a sense of degree.  (Really, I should have realized this months ago when I discovered that "too long" two lines earlier is also sung with these same melismas.)