Sunday, May 5, 2024

"Eight Miles High"

I was thinking about "Eight Miles High" this morning, and I realized that there are a couple musical features in the title line that mirror the phrase.

The words are sung to an ascending melody (E F# G), and this provides a musical sense of that height.  Together, the three words are sung to a total of eight beats (two half notes and one whole note), which obviously match the "eight" in the phrase.