Audio Example 3.4:

The climactic phrase in Dylan's "House of the Rising Sun"

Chapter 3
Audio Example 3.4
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The climactic phrase in Dylan's "House of the Rising Sun"

New York, NY (Columbia Studio A)November 20, 1961

The vocal climax of Dylan's performance centers on a knotted figure involving the notes E4 and G4. Dylan bores into the E4 between yelped leaps up to G4. At phrase's end he lands hard on E4, smearing down from it in a gravelly snarl on the word "done."