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Stresses in words and music
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02-17-2018, 02:30 PM
Roger Slater
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Doesn't he say "soft-lee-EE" and "wa-UZ"? I hear it as a use of melisma, a musical tool that often allows "unnatural" stresses to feel right in the lyrics.
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