Kevin Sutton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Some examples of text painting:
>
>In" Fair Phyllis I Saw" we find the text "Up and Down She wanders" The word
>up is set to a high note, down to a low note. ...

Bellman was as sophisticated. In "Hoer Klockorna" ("Hear the Bells") The
text goes: "Hear the Bells ring anxiously" and there the melody wanders up
and down on three notes like a ringing churchbell in a sycopated rythm. The
finest example on this which I know of.

Mats Norrman
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