Thursday, January 18, 2024

"Within You Without You"

I was thinking about "Within You Without You" yester-day, specifically the melody to which the first line is sung.  It's something like:


The lyric here is "We were talking about the space between us all."  The beginning and ending of the phrase are conjunct, but there are larger intervals (mostly fourths) in the middle, as if to illustrate that "space."