The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #14561   Message #1477883
Posted By: Peter T.
04-May-05 - 11:01 AM
Thread Name: Most haunting melodies?
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
One thing not discussed on this thread are moments inside melodies that give you goose bumps. Three that come to mind:

In "Every Time You Go Away" by Cole Porter ("But how strange the change from major to minor") -- that change is so brilliant.

"I Could Have Danced All Night" -- There is a moment just before "...I only know when he, began to dance with me," when the chord movement just takes the breath away.

The Beatles have hundreds of them. Maybe my favourite is in "I'll Follow the Sun" when they go to the "B" section -- "But now the time has come, and so my love I must go, and though I lose a friend, in the end you will know, whoaoh...." or that extraordinary moment in "Ask Me Why" when the augmented pops up":"I can't believe it's happened to me-e-e-e, I can't conceive, of any more misery!"

yours,

Peter T.