Nields Crossing PDW in Last Kisses
by Bruce (3/19/2001)

Lami wrote: I think the best example of PDW is in "Last Kisses".

You totally read my mind Lami. Might have to put you on staff too. Is weird deja vu, mind reading, seeing the future, inexplicable synchronistic coincidence, and all manner of other strange magic all a part of this extraterrestrial rekooN phenomenoN we got going here? :)

Then Lami quoted from a previous post by Bruce:

    The long held note near the end of "Last Kisses," where Nerissa and Katryna both hold a high note for an amazing 16 beats --- 4 full measures in 4/4 time --- is the interval of a second. Katryna is holding the higher octave of the root of the dominant chord, and Nerissa is holding the seventh of the chord, a whole-step lower than the note Katryna is holding, Nerissa's being the melody at that point, and which resolves on the word "Kisses" to the third and then the tonic.

Thanks for dredging that up. I couldn't have dredged that up myself, as it's in the Limbo of the Lost for me, sunk somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle of the hard drive of my previous computer.

But after more careful consideration, all other things being equal, Katryna's high note is really the 9th of a subdominant IV chord, and Nerissa's holding the root, not the seventh of a dominant V chord. Go knock yourselves out, Nields cover bands, if only for one song. Any chance we'll have a NTAP before FR 2001? Or how about a stocking stuffer for Yuletide. Late is better than never at all. Especially if good things are worth waiting for.

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