Sunday, December 8, 2024

"Silence and I"

Recently, I was thinking about "Silence and I" and realized that there are some ways in which the vocal melody for the lines "We're two of a kind / Silence and I" matches the meaning.  The lines are sung to musical phrases something like these:


(I'm still not very sure of the key, but I think it's Bb minor.)

Excepting the initial note of the first phrase, the two phrases have the same melodic shape and note values, so there's a parity between the two phrases in the same way that "Silence and I" are "two of the kind."

"Two of a kind" is also represented musically in that (again excepting the initial note of the first phrase) each phrase consists of two pairs of two pitches (Bb & C and C & Db).