Monday, July 14, 2025

"Have You Seen Her Face"

Yester-day was Roger McGuinn's birthday, so I listened to Younger than Yesterday, and I noticed a handful of small features.

In the line "A style made up to capture all she needs" in "Have You See Her Face," the phrase "all she needs" is sung to notes of all different pitches (G A F#), giving something of a sense of breadth.

The same sort of feature is present in the phrase "All the sights and sounds" in the third verse:  "sights and sounds" is sung to the notes B A# A.  That the A# is an accidental (I'm pretty sure the song is in D major) lends a further sense of this entirety.