0:00 - 0:07
The music begins with a playful pulse. The voice is soft and pastel. The bass line bounces up and down and then recoils all the way down. The high soprano note is left alone suspended in air.
o:07-0:10
The voice rises while the melody falls.
0:10-0:14
The voice becomes slightly more forceful. The end of this phrase feels open yet on edge. The forward-moving-ness of the music is felt here.
0:14-0:20
The notes flow into each other delicately.
0:20-0:25
Abruptly the delicate fluidity is lost. The voice now sounds a bit shaky as it jumps on to each note. However, after 2 seconds it returns to the delicate fluidity from before which now seems somehow even more fluid.
0:26-0:33
The voice becomes extremely light. Enunciated with an air of pompousness. The piano mimics the voice.
0:33-0:39
The voice becomes stronger and robust. The syllables are enunciated with more vigor. The voice feels like it starts off at a distance and comes closer until it reaches that same high note from the beginning, except this time the high note is sung out with power and assertion.
0:39-0:42
The voice grows louder and louder, the tension is building, the piano speeds up. The melody ascends.
0:43-0:46
A stark contrast. The voice has lost its vigor. The tone of the voice is more gentle. The melody descends.
0:47-0:53
A continuous downfall in loudness and melody. The gentleness in his voice grows until the melody ends and he shies away.
0:53-0:58
The voice begins to regain its strength, building up to the end of this phrase. It takes him longer to get to the highest note this time, the voice struggles to reach this point.
0:58-1:05
The piano is soft and so is his voice, which here resumes the same quality it possessed in the beginning. The piece tenderly comes to an end...
1:06-1:12
... only to resume once more in the most dramatic way. The piano is more enunciated. The voice is rich and full of flavor. The syllables are more drawn out, and there is barely an audible gap between each note. This time, the high note rings out with glorious resonance.
1:12-1:15
The voice remains full-throated. The syllables are still drawn out until the end when he starts to cut short his sounds and almost yell the words.
1:16-1:19
In a more delicate way, the rich and flowy nature of his voice returns abruptly.
1:20-1:26
The syllables flow into each other more than ever here, as the voice floats around serenely, and is gently put down.
1:26-1:32
The voice, having lost its fullness, remains soft and does not regain strength in this part, as it had before. The high note at this point is the faintest note heard in the entire song.
1:32-1:40
The vocalist breathes out the final notes - they fall hushedly from his mouth and the piano catches them.
1:41-1:46
Silence, white noise fades out.
----Phenomenological Conclusion:
Throughout the piece, certain syllables are always emphasized. This, plus the extreme rising and falling of each phrase, the overall continuity (no rests), and the deliberate rubato make the piece actively move in all sorts of directions at once.
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