"Eternity Road"

Years ago, I wrote about some significant vocal articulations in "Eternity Road," and recently I found an-other one:  "alone" in the line "And so very much alone" is sung with a melisma (D A G), giving a sense of degree (for the description "so very much").

"Out and In"

A few years ago, I wrote a short post about how in "Out and In," "view" in the line "Looking for total view" is sung with a melisma and that this provides a sense of the entirety of "total."  After I listened to To Our Children's Children's Children recently, I realized that there's an-other musical feature that gives a sense of this breadth.  Underneath this line, the chords are F major and D major.  Usually, those two chords would not go together, but their juxtaposition here provides a sense of tonal breadth, especially since Mike Pinder uses the pitch shift knob on the Mellotron to slide from the F major down to the D major.

"Higher and Higher"

I listened to To Our Children's Children's Children yester-day and noticed a handful of features.

The first line of "Higher and Higher" exhibits alliteration:  "Blasting, billowing, bursting forth with the power of ten billion butterfly sneezes."  I think it's significant that the alliterative sound here is a plosive.  In a way, these plosives give the sense of a rocket's propulsion.