Thursday, March 29, 2018

"Within You Without You"

I recently acquired the 2 CD Anniversary Edition of Sgt. Pepper, which I first listened to last night.  I noticed a couple small things, and I plan to write a few posts about them over the course of the next few days.

In "Within You Without You," the "away" in the line "When they pass away" is sung with a melisma (going back and forth between Gb and F).  This provides a musical sense of movement, namely that "pass[ing] away."