Saturday, April 21, 2018

"A Rose for Emily"

The second thing I noticed when I listened to Odessey and Oracle a couple days ago is the articulation of "ev'rywhere" in the line "There's loving ev'rywhere" in "A Rose for Emily."  The musical phrase it's sung to arpeggiates an inverted D major: F# A D.  It spans an augmented fifth, and this distance provides a musical sense of "ev'rywhere."