Monday, May 13, 2019

"Gettin' In"

In "Gettin' In," "surrounding" in the line "My love's surrounding you" is sung with a melisma (A F# C# A), and that breadth (both in the number of pitches and in the interval [a sixth]) gives a musical sense of the "surrounding."

In the lines "Love you ev'rywhere / Take me with you when you fly" near the end, "ev'rywhere" and "fly" are sung with melismas - "ev'rywhere" (B A A B A F#) for a sense of breadth and "fly" (too many pitches to mention) for a sense of movement.