Thursday, April 9, 2026
"(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).
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
"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.
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