The Annotated

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Catalog · 45 songs

I Feel Pretty13

Tonight12

Comedy Tonight12

Everybody Ought to Have a Maid12

Simple13

There's Always a Woman13

Being Alive17

Company7

Getting Married Today12

Marry Me a Little13

The Ladies Who Lunch21

Could I Leave You?6

Losing My Mind6

Every Day a Little Death12

Later14

Send in the Clowns11

The Miller's Son14

A Bowler Hat6

Someone in a Tree16

A Little Priest8

Epiphany13

God, That's Good!14

Johanna19

Not While I'm Around6

The Ballad of Sweeney Todd8

Growing Up14

Merrily We Roll Along8

Finishing the Hat18

Move On14

Putting It Together12

Sunday14

Sunday in the Park with George12

Agony7

Giants in the Sky7

I Know Things Now12

Into the Woods11

Last Midnight13

No One Is Alone19

On the Steps of the Palace14

Stay with Me13

Your Fault13

Everybody's Got the Right12

Unworthy of Your Love12

Loving You19

Waste7

I Feel Pretty

West Side Story · 1957 · 2:48 · 13 occurrences

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Arrested cadence

Harmonic plot twist

Melodic refusal

Lyric-music misalignment

Motivic seed

Metric displacement

Chromatic ascent

Textural reveal

0:002:152:48

The Metric Displacement · bar 47moment 11 of 13

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What the model identified

Melody or accompaniment set against the meter to create rhythmic ambiguity, phrases that feel ahead of or behind the beat.

“The whole song is about not being able to finish. So the music doesn’t finish either, until she does.”

Look, I Made a Hat · sample pull

Cited: Swayne, How Sondheim Found His Sound, p. 214