Monday, June 18, 2018

"Losing You"

An-other thing I noticed while listening to New World last week is that "away" in the line "And though you've often turned away" in "Losing You" is sung with a melisma.  It's sung to three syllables (to the notes C C B) rather than just two.  This gives something of a musical sense of the movement of "turn[ing] away."

I referenced the version on Colin Blunstone's Collected (the liner notes explain that it's from the album The Light Inside), and this same feature (with the same pitches, even) is present there too.