Originally Posted by
jobucats
sup_fan, You and I may have gone through this before regarding especially, "I Hear a Symphony". Although I love the song [[It's actually first physical 45 single I ever saw from the group, musically it borders on sounding monotonous because of the structure of the same musical phrases being used over and over [[with the exception of "I'm lost in a world made for you and me"). The saving elements, musically, for me is that killer intro going from an Fm chord to Eb to Cm to G to end up on the C chord where Diana begins singing AND, as you mentioned, the modulations. Lyrically, his song had to be a killer to sing with without cue cards [[or words on the screen) for Diana because all of the phrases which really don't tell a story [[just a words expressing love). We know of a few instances where Diana indeed did get stumped when singing this live.
I love your analysis of Theme from Mahogany- Now that's some creative, yet intuitive song writing right there in its musical structure.
We may have also discussed, "It's My Turn". Now this beautiful song can be somewhat confusing to follow with how the different sections weave together. This is another one with some crafty modulations in it, and somewhat tricky as to keeping the lyrics properly aligned. All of this is my opinion.
Great discussion!
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