"P-Q3"

I listened to The Sicilican Defence this morning and noticed a particular synthesizer phrase in "P-Q3."  It starts at ~2:36 and is something like:

There's a ritardando beginning around the seventh measure, and I'm not sure of the note value of that last F.

Some of the phrases in this melody (measures one, three, and five) alternate between progressively lower notes and notes of a fixed pitch.  I think this is a feature from baroque music, although the only specific piece that I know has this is Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565.  Here it is (alternating with both descending and ascending notes) in the pedal part:

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"Pyramania"

In the line "You can grow a hedge that is vertically straight over ten feet high" in "Pyramania," the phrase "ten feet high" is sung to a group of ascending notes (B C D), musically giving a sense of this height.

"What Goes Up"

I listened to Pyramid (on vinyl) yester-day and noticed a couple small things.

In "What Goes Up," there's alliteration in the line "How can you be so sure?"  This repetition illustrates the firmness of that certainty.