From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V12 #419 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Wednesday, March 13 2013 Volume 12 : Number 419 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Re: [RS] Transit & The Examined Life [Shelda Eggers ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:27:22 -0500 From: Shelda Eggers Subject: Re: Re: [RS] Transit & The Examined Life At 3:01 PM -0500 3/12/13, ookpik@verizon.net wrote: >and they blossom into song, with "the light of forgiveness >on all of their faces," living in that moment of grace... >*which is why it's my very favorite RS song**and it just occurred me as >I'm writing that a "focus" is a lens, and so (in a different sense) is a >"vortex," and it's probably pushing things too far as I tend to do, but >is RS making an implicit pun here?***with which, FWIW, I can completely >identify He also has a line about Sister Maria's soul like a prism, which I always thought went nicely with vortex. I'm with you about grace, and maybe also redemption. Shelda ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:32:06 -0700 From: Subject: Re: [RS] Transit & The Examined Life >> What are the chords leading up to that G? Does it move into a different key? I could never understand musically why that part is so pleasing to the ear. << Well, the whole song has pretty much been in that B7-C pattern (and the Am-Em bridge type section), that when it jumps to the G chord, it just sort of elevates everything. Same thing as in "Fishing" when the song jumps to the G chord at "It says here by trade you were a fisherman." http://www.mmreview.com/ronsfolkchords/shindell_paterson.htm#transit RG ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V12 #419 ************************************