Tuesday, April 23, 2019

"What Becomes of the Broken Hearted"

Yester-day I was thinking about "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted" (included on Colin Blunstone's Collected), and I realized a couple things about it.

"Dreams" in the first line ("As I walk this land of broken dreams") and "hearted" in the title line are both sung with melismas (C Bb Ab and D C Bb, respectively), musically giving a sense of being "broken."

Earlier to-day, I realized that there's also a significant melisma in the second line:  "I have visions of many things."  "Things" is sung to the notes Bb Ab, so while it's a smaller melisma, there's still something of a sense of that "many."