"Let Me Go"

I found a handful of things in "Let Me Go" when I listened to The Magnificent Moodies last week, and in writing this post, I found a few more.

First, here are the things I noticed last week.

There's a grammatical ambiguity in the line "When I call you dear."  "Dear" could be either a vocative or part of a double accusative construction (with "you").

I'm not sure of the notes, but "go" in the line "I find it hard to go" is sung with a melisma, giving a sense of movement.

I'm not sure of the lyrics in the whole line, but "ways" in "see a change in your ways" is sung with a melisma (A A G F, I think), musically illustrating that "chang[ing]."

"Go" in the coda ("You'd better let me go") is also sung with a melisma (E D C, I think) for a sense of movement.

In looking at the song again, I found a few more things.

"If I stay around, then you're gonna see my heartbreak" also has a grammatical ambiguity.  "Heartbreak" could be either one word functioning as a noun or two forming a clause  ("you're gonna see my heart break").

"Heartache" in the line "I can't stand all this heartache" is sung with a melisma (B B A G), musically giving a sense of that "all."

"So" in the line "'Cause I love you so" is sung with a melisma (Eb D C), musically giving a sense of degree.

"Let Me Go"

This evening, I learned the piano in the introduction to "Let Me Go," to which I could add the flute part that I learned back in December 2017:

This is only ten measures, but I think it turned out fairly well.  The flute part is such that I can play it even with my limited flute abilities.