Monday, April 20, 2026

"Celebration"

I listened to Ring of Hands a couple days ago and noticed a small feature in "Celebration."  In the line "Lift the veil of your joy to my eye," the words "lift the veil" are sung to an ascending group of notes (E F# G#), musically illustrating this "lift[ing]."  (It wasn't until hearing the version by Sparrow on The Chris White Experience Volume Three that I understood this line.)

When I found the specific pitches, I also noticed that "joy" later in the line is sung with a melisma (G# F# E), and since the word isn't constrained to a single note, there's a sense of this exuberance.