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[Music Fridays] Prosody of the Snow Queen

The Swyx Mixtape

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The Want Song Category Is Let It Go

Singing somewhere on the octave leap is actually good prosidy. Yip harberg, who wrote the lyrics for over the rainbow, describes prosidy this way: Words make you think thoughts. But a song makes you feel a thought. And in wizard of oz, dorothy is singing about going to a far away place and leaping up to the far away note of an octave musically compliments that lyric. The first time we hear bar two, we get a half step up and a half step down. The second time we hear it, we getA half step down and ahalf step down. For it, there's a slight variation, indicating a restless mind.

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