Tuesday, March 12, 2019

"Soldier of Love"

An-other thing I noticed when I listened to the first disc of Live at the BBC a few days ago is in "Soldier of Love."  The "so" in the lines "Use your arms to squeeze and / Please 'cause I'm the one who loves you so" is sung with a melisma (C# E), musically giving a sense of degree.

When I referenced the song again in order to find those specific notes and write this post, I noticed that "more" in the line "Baby, I don't wanna fight no more" is also sung with the same melisma, but here there's a (negated) sense of extension or continuation.