Monday, November 26, 2018

"Julia"

An-other thing I noticed when I listened to The Beatles last week is that in "Julia," both "shimmering" and "glimmering" in "Her hair of floating sky is shimmering / Glimmering" are sung with melismas (A G# F# D for each).  To some degree, this gives a sense of the meaning of those words, specifically the wavering involved in both.