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Saturday, April 2, 2016

The Mamas & the Papas' Deliver

This morning I listened to The Mamas & the Papas' Deliver and found a few things.  None of them are that significant though, so I'm putting them all together in one post.

"Dedicated to the One I Love"

There's a fairly large interval between the two syllables of "away" in the first line ("While I'm far away from you, my baby"), which helps to demonstrate the distance.  It's a fourth (D to G).

"Free Advice"

The "ground" in the line "And keep your ear to the ground" has a melisma, and the later notes have lower pitches (F to E to D), so as the word it sung, it goes lower, just like the line itself says to do.

"Look through My Window"

I actually didn't notice this until transcribing the song to look at what I had discovered, but the end of line "To the street below" descends, as if looking down on the street.  "Street below" is sung to a F Db Ab phrase.

What I noticed when I listened to the song this morning is that the "go" in the line "Someplace to go" has a melisma, suggesting the movement that stated plainly in the line itself.  It's actually the same descent as the "ground" in "Free Advice," although there's also a C# at the end.