"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.

"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."