Monday, October 30, 2023

"Big Wheels"

In an old note I found recently, I remarked that in the first "No, not at all" in the first verse of "Big Wheels," "all" is sung with a melisma (G F), musically giving a sense of degree.  When I went to verify this and find the specific pitches, I also noticed that in the preceding line, "There's no one knows which side the coin will fall," "fall" is sung with a descending melisma (Ab G F, I think), musically giving a sense of the word's meaning.