Showing posts with label Shore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shore. Show all posts

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.