Sunday, June 21, 2020

"I Can Hear Music"

I listened to Friends/20/20 yester-day and noticed a couple things.  In the line "Maybe that's why when we're all alone" in "I Can Hear Music," "alone" is sung with a melisma (F# A B A), musically giving a sense of degree (for "all").  I referenced the version by the Ronettes, and while the rhythm is a bit different, this melisma is present there too.