"Another Morning"

Yester-day, I was thinking about the line "Yesterday's dreams are tomorrow's sighs" in "Another Morning" and realized that there are some musical elements that highlight the contrasts between "yesterday" and "tomorrow" and between the eager anticipation of "dreams" and the reflective disappointment of "sighs."  The first half of the line ("Yesterday's dreams") is sung to a generally ascending melody (C D E D D, with the "-day" of "yesterday's" sung with a melisma, E D), but the second half ("are tomorrow's sighs") is sung to a generally descending melody in a lower register (B B B A G B A, with "tomorrow's" also sung with a melisma, in a bit of parallelism).  The dynamics also change:  "Yesterday's dreams" is sung forte, as if full of energy, but "are tomorrow's sighs" is sung more piano, even diminishing near the end of the line.

"Another Morning"

I listened to Days of Future Passed yester-day because it may have been the anniversary of its release (on their social channels, the Moody Blues said it was, but the liner notes of the 2008 CD re-issue say that the album was released on the 11th).  In any case, I was thinking about "Another Morning" even before I listened to the album and realized a small thing about it:  in the lines "Time seems to stand quite still / In a child's world, it always will," "will" is sung with a melisma (B A F# E) musically giving a sense of duration for that "always."

"Another Morning"

Recently, I was thinking about the mellotron brass phrase near the beginning of "Another Morning" (at ~0:24), and I realized something that I think I'd noticed a while ago but had forgotten about.

First, here's that phrase (I should note that I'm not entirely confident about my notation):

This phrase is just an arpeggiation of an A major chord (inverted so that - in ascending order - the notes are E A C# E), and this is a common feature of bugle calls.

For comparison, here's "Assembly":

and here's "First Call":

While both of these are in C major, they're made up of notes with the same sort of arpeggiation (G C E G).

I don't think the mellotron brass phrase in "Another Morning" is an actual bugle call, but it's certainly characteristic of one.

"Another Morning"

The other thing I noticed when I listened to Days of Future Passed yester-day is in "Another Morning."  "So" in the line "Watch children playing, they seem so wise" is sung with a melisma (G B), musically giving a sense of degree.

"Another Morning"

When I listened to Days of Future Passed on Tuesday, I noticed that there are two simultaneous flute parts in "Another Morning."  I'd always thought it was just a single part, which I'd learned way back in 2013.  In sorting out the harmonies (which are almost entirely thirds), I discovered that I didn't even have that one part right; near the end, I'd unknowingly shifted into the harmony part.

I think I have both parts now.  I recorded and filmed them (using the mellotron flute sound on my keyboard) because that was easier than trying to write them down:

I used the section at the end as the template for my recording, but I think the parts are the same throughout the song (aside from the last few notes, of course).  Near the end, I accidentally held a G note in the harmony part for too long, but oh well.

"Another Morning"

Just recently (18 March), I realized that there's a significant difference between the verses and choruses of "Another Morning."  The verses are all comprised of notes with short values ("Balloons flying, children sighing / What a day to go kite flying..."), while in the choruses ("Time seems to stand quite still..."), the note values are considerably longer.  Compared to the short notes values in the verses, the long values in the chorus musically demonstrate that "Time seems to stand quite still."