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"Eclipse" is the tenth and final track from British progressive rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album, ''The Dark Side of the Moon''. It was sung by Roger Waters, with harmonies by David Gilmour and Rick Wright. After Waters left the band, Gilmour sang the lead when performing live. This song was one of several to be considered for the band's "best of" album, ''Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd''. ==Composition== This song serves as the album's end and features a loud, repetitive melody that builds up, then ends with a very quiet outro. When the main instrumentation ends at 1:30, the sound of a heartbeat from the first track, "Speak to Me", appears, which appears again in 9/8, and gradually fades to silence. Harmonically, the song consists of a repeating 4-bar chord progression: D, D/C, B♭maj7, and A7sus4 resolving to A7. The bass line is a descending tetrachord. David Gilmour recorded two tracks of rhythm guitar, playing arpeggios, one in open position, and one much higher, around the tenth fret. The lower-pitched guitar part includes the open G and E strings during the B♭maj7, resulting in an added sixth and a dissonant augmented fourth. The quartet of female backing singers vary their parts, rising in volume, and echoing some of Roger Waters' lyrics, as the piece builds in intensity. On the last repetition of the chord progression, the B♭maj7 leads directly to a climax on D major, resulting in a "brightening" effect (known as the Picardy third), as the aforementioned implication of D minor in the B♭maj7 chord shifts to the major.〔''Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon'' 1973 Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd., London, England, ISBN 0-7119-1028-6 (USA ISBN 0-8256-1078-8)〕〔''Which One's Pink? An Analysis of the Concept Albums of Roger Waters & Pink Floyd'' by Philip Anthony Rose. Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc. Ontario, Canada. ISBN 1-896522-47-5〕 The final words sung on the song and, indeed the album ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' directs the listener, "''and everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon''." Waters explained the meaning of these words as well as the entire song by asserting: Paul McCartney was one of the people interviewed by Waters as part of his efforts to develop dialogue to accompany certain songs on the album. His interview was not used, but Abbey Road Studios doorman Gerry O'Driscoll's was. His full answer to the question "What is 'the dark side of the moon'?", part of which is heard at 1:37 in "Eclipse", was: "There is no dark side in the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark. The only thing that makes it look light is the sun."〔''The Making Of The Dark Side Of the Moon'' DVD〕〔''Inside Out''. Nick Mason. First edition, p.172〕 A section of an orchestral version of the Beatles song "Ticket to Ride" can be heard faintly at the very end of the recording. This was unintended, the music was playing in the background at Abbey Road when Gerry O'Driscoll was being recorded. This is not included on the 1983 Japanese Black Triangle CD issue of the album - the sound technicians copied one of the heartbeat samples, removed the orchestral "Ticket to Ride", repeatedly pasted the sample in and faded out the new outro. 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「Eclipse (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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