Saturday, December 3, 2022

"May Be a Price to Pay"

This evening, I figured out the brass part at ~2:22 in "May Be a Price to Pay."  (Later, I lookt in my file and discovered that I'd already figured this out.)  In notating it, though, I realized that there are a few elements in it that illustrate how "something's wrong" (the lyrics that are sung at the same time).

I think the part is something like this:


The song is in D minor, but there are some accidentals here.  (I don't know if it's technically correct to mix the accidental signs, but I notated them as Eb and C#).  In every other measure, the brass plays on the off-beats, and this also contributes to a sense of something wrong.