"Peak Hour"

Earlier this week, I figured out the mellotron organ part from ~3:17 to ~3:51 in "Peak Hour."  Back in January, I wrote about how the contrast between this section (with a slower tempo and sparse instrumentation) and the rest of the song illustrates the difference between the relaxed narrator and the rushing people.  This morning, after having played the part numerous times over the course of a few days just for my own enjoyment, I realized that this relaxed attitude is present even in the music of just this small section.  The note values progressively lengthen (from eighth notes to half notes to whole notes) to illustrate that "I've got time."

I'm a bit unsure of some specific voicings, but I think the part is something like:

(I adjusted the split point between the two staves so the notation looks a bit more balanced.)

"Peak Hour"

One of my 2019 musical projects is to listen to a Moody Blues album every Tuesday.  To-day I listened to Days of Future Passed and noticed a couple of things about which I'll have posts over the next few days.

At ~3:16 in "Peak Hour," there's a tempo change from a fast tempo to a slower one (and there's also a change in the number of instruments playing, with the slower section featuring only what I believe to be an organ sound on mellotron), which musically differentiates between the rushing people and the speaker/singer, who has a more relaxed attitude.  The lyrics during this slower section describe this difference:  "It makes me want to run out and tell them / They've got time."  When the speaker/singer himself says, "I found out I've got time," the word "time" is sung with a melisma (A Bb B in one of the voices), which musically gives a sense of the abundance of time that he has.