Wednesday, November 14, 2018

"When the Lovelight Starts Shining through Her Eyes"

I was thinking about "When the Lovelight Starts Shining through Her Eyes" this morning, and I realized a small feature in the third verse.  It's actually the same thing I noticed in "Bring It on Home to Me" back in June.  "Mind" in the line "Hopin' she hadn't changed her mind" is sung with a melisma (F# E C#, I think), and because the word is sung to more than one pitch, there's a musical sense of the shifting of "chang[ing] her mind."