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).