"Sun Is Still Shining"

The last thing I noticed when I listened to To Our Children's Children's Children recently is in "Sun Is Still Shining."  In the line "Ev'rything's turning, turning around," the three syllables of "ev'rything" are sung to three different pitches (F# E C#).  Musically, this gives something of a sense of the breadth of "ev'rything."

"Gypsy"

I noticed two things in "Gypsy" that musically relate to the line "Left without all hope of coming home" (that's how I hear it, but in the liner notes, it's printed as "Left without a hope of coming home").

While "home" is sung with a melisma (G E), that second note is the tonic.  This is the musical "home" of the song, which is in E minor.

The song doesn't resolve, it just cross fades into the next track, so there really isn't a "coming home," just as the lyric describes.

"Out and In"

I listened to To Our Children's Children's Children yester-day and noticed a few small things.

In the line "Looking for total view" in "Out and In," "view" is sung with a melisma (B A F#), and that musical span gives something of a sense of the entirety of "total."

"House of Four Doors (Part 1)"

I listened to In Search of the Lost Chord on Tuesday, and then I learned the flute parts from ~1:55 to ~2:09 in "House of Four Doors (Part 1)."

The left-channel flute is something like:

While playing this over, the intervals seemed familiar, and I realized that - perhaps coincidentally - they're exactly the same as the last few measures of the first section of "Greensleeves":