Saturday, May 30, 2026

"Lucifer"

I've been reading Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys, and yester-day, I encountered a chart of the Morse code signals (on page 65).  It reminded me that the album title Eve is spelt out in Morse code in "Lucifer" (the APP website notes this in the comments on the expanded edition of the album).

The part is basically a repeated, one-measure phrase (in the last iteration of each section, however, the final note drops to an C#).  In the notation below, I delineated the Morse code letters by color:  blue for E (•) and gray for V (• • • -).


Note that the lengths for • vary:  those for the two Es are the same (eighth notes), but the initial two of the three in V (a pair of sixteenth notes) are shorter than the third (an eighth note).