Wednesday, January 15, 2020

"The Diary of Horace Wimp"

Last night, I figured out the chords for "The Diary of Horace Wimp."  While playing along to the recording in order to make sure I had everything right, I noticed the repeated synth phrase in the coda:


This sounded somewhat familiar to me, so I did some research and discovered that it has some similarity to "First Call," an army bugle call that's also used in horse racing (it appears at the beginning of "Fugue for Tinhorns" in Guys and Dolls):


While the rhythms are different, the intervals of the synth phrase in "The Diary of Horace Wimp" match those in the first phrase of "First Call," so I think this resemblance was intentional.