Tales of Mystery and Imagination

I listened to Tales of Mystery and Imagination yester-day and for the first time noticed that the recorder part from "A Dream within a Dream" is reprised near the end of "(The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether."  When I lookt into the parts more closely, I discovered that they are slightly different.

The recorder in "A Dream within a Dream" (starting at ~1:03) is something like this:

In "(The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether," the recorder starts at ~3:29 and repeats throughout the rest of the song:

The keys are different, and some note values have been shortened in "(The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether," but all of the intervals are the same.

"A Dream within a Dream" and "(The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" are the first and last songs, respectively, on the first side of the original vinyl album.  Since this recorder part appears near the beginning of "A Dream within a Dream" and in the coda of "(The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether," it creates a sort of book-ending effect.

"(The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether"

I was thinking about "(The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" yester-day and had a small realization about the line "Just what you need to make you feel better" in the lead vocals at ~1:45.  "Better" is sung with a melisma (I think it's something like Eb F G G F Eb G G F Eb F Eb C, but it gets more difficult to follow at the end), and this articulation gives some sense of the comparative nature of this adverb (more notes for a higher degree).

"Limelight"

Last month, I listened to Stereotomy (Sessions).  I noticed some connections between the music and lyrics in "Limelight," and this morning, I listened to Stereotomy again in order to confirm that they're also in the final version.  During the line "After all the years of waiting," most of the instruments drop out, and this musical rest matches the "waiting."  In the last two iterations of the following line ("I'm gonna show them all"), the instruments come back in under "all," representing this multitude.