Showing posts with label Bread. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bread. Show all posts

Sunday, April 3, 2016

Bread's "Aubrey"

This morning I listened to a compilation album of Bread and noticed something in "Aubrey."  The "past" in the line "Catching all the words but then the meaning going past" has a glissando; it's sung to three pitches rather than just one.  It slides from F# to E to D, which conveys the movement of passing that the lyric mentions.

Monday, January 18, 2016

Bread's "London Bridge"

This morning I listened to Bread's Anthology.  I'm fairly familiar with this album, but for the first time I realized that during some sections of "London Bridge," there's a descending phrase in the backing vocals (I'm pretty sure it's B, A, G#), reflecting the lines about London Bridge falling down in the lyrics.