Friday, October 8, 2021

"Shore"

As with some phrases in "I'm Not My Season," the line "Kin of my kin" in "Shore" seems to borrow its structure from Genesis 2:23:  "Then the man said, 'This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.'"

In the repeated line "While I see it all," "all" is sung with a melisma (D C D G E D C), musically giving a sense of that entirety.  When this "all" is repeated by itself after these lines, it's sung with a slightly different melisma (G E D C D) but with the same effect.