Wednesday, February 22, 2023

"The Turn of a Friendly Card (Part One)"

Recently, a clip from an interview with Sally Woolfson was posted on the Alan Parsons Project's social media accounts.  (Here are the links to Twitter and Instagram, and here are links to the first and second parts of the full interview [from 2020] on YouTube.)  "The Turn of a Friendly Card (Part One)" is used as background music in the clip, and while listening to it, I realized that in the lines "And not all the king's horses and all the king's men / Have prevented the fall of the unwise," the phrases "all the king's horses" and "all the king's men" are sung to notes of all different pitches (F E D C A and D C Bb A, respectively).  This provides a sense of the entirety and breadth of those "all"s.