|
}} "Time" is the fourth track from the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album ''The Dark Side of the Moon'', and the only song on the album credited to all four members of the band, though the lyrics were written by Roger Waters. It is the final Pink Floyd song credited to all four members and the last to feature Richard Wright on lead vocals until "Wearing the Inside Out" on ''The Division Bell''. This song is about how time can slip by, but many people do not realise it until it is too late. Roger Waters got the idea when he realised he was no longer preparing for anything in life, but was right in the middle of it. He has described this realisation taking place at ages 28 and 29 in various interviews. It is noted for its long introductory passage of clocks chiming and alarms ringing, recorded as a quadrophonic test by Alan Parsons, not specifically for the album. ==Composition== Time is in the key of F# minor. Each clock at the beginning of the song was recorded separately in an antiques store. This is followed by a two-minute passage dominated by Nick Mason's drum solo, with rototoms and backgrounded by a ''tick-tock'' sound created by Roger Waters picking two muted strings on his bass. With David Gilmour singing lead on the verses and with Richard Wright singing lead on the bridges and with female singers and Gilmour providing backup vocals, the song's lyrics deal with Roger Waters' realization that life was not about preparing yourself for what happens next, but about grabbing control of your own destiny.〔 According to an interview by Phil Taylor in 1994, David Gilmour had been using a Lexicon PCM-70 to store the circular delay sounds heard in "Time", which could duplicate the kind of echo he used to get from his old Binson echo unit. The verse chords cycle through F♯ minor, A major, E major, and F♯ minor again. During this section, Gilmour's guitar and Wright's keyboards are panned to the extreme right and left of the stereo spectrum. Gilmour sings lead during this section.〔''Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon'' (1973 Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd., London, England, ISBN 0-7119-1028-6 (ISBN 0-8256-1078-8 ))〕 The bridge section, with Wright singing lead, has a notably "thicker" arrangement, with the female backing vocalists singing multi-tracked "oohs" and "aahs" throughout, and Gilmour singing harmony with Wright in the second half. The chords of this section are D major seventh to A major seventh, which is repeated. The D major seventh, with the notes of D, F♯, A, and C♯, can be heard as an F♯ minor chord with a D in the bass, fitting the song's overall key. The second half progresses from D major seventh to C# minor, then B minor to E major.〔''Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon'' (1973 Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd., London, England, ISBN 0-7119-1028-6 (ISBN 0-8256-1078-8 ))〕 The first bridge leads to a guitar solo by Gilmour, which plays over both the verse and bridge progressions. The solo is followed by another verse sung by Gilmour. When the bridge is repeated, it does not conclude on E major as before. Instead, the B minor leads to an F major chord, while Waters's bass stays on B, resulting in an unusual dissonance as a transition to the key of E minor for "Breathe (Reprise)".〔''Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon'' (1973 Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd., London, England, ISBN 0-7119-1028-6 (ISBN 0-8256-1078-8 ))〕 Pink Floyd performed the song live from 1972 to 1975, and after the departure of Waters, from 1987 to 1994. Waters began performing the song in his solo concerts, singing the verses himself, beginning in 1999 with In the Flesh and again with The Dark Side of the Moon Live from 2006 to 2008. Nick Mason made a number of guest appearances on the latter tour. ===Breathe (Reprise)=== "Breathe (Reprise)" serves as a coda to Time. It is in the key of E minor. It reprises the earlier song "Breathe", with different lyrics. During recording, it was called "Home Again". When the song ends, the reverberations of the final note resound for about a second before the piano of "The Great Gig in the Sky". When Pink Floyd reunited for the Live 8 concert, they combined "Breathe", and "Breathe (Reprise)", something they had never done before, although the London Philharmonic Orchestra had previously covered the song in this manner on their 1995 album ''Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd''. The song features on David Gilmour's 2007 DVD, ''Remember That Night'', and in his 2008 CD ''Live in Gdańsk''. These are the only instances of the song being given a separate track number to "Time" on an official release. The ''Live in Gdańsk'' version is titled "Breathe (In the Air) (Reprise)" rather than just "Breathe (Reprise)". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Time (Pink Floyd song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|