Certes fayr neuew sayd she / your moder is dede / for after your departynge from her / she took suche a sorowe that anone after she was confessid she dyed / Now god haue mercy on her sowle sayd syr Percyual hit sore forthynketh me / but alle we must chaunge the lyf
"Certes, fair nephew, said she, your mother is dead, for after your departing from her she took such a sorrow that anon, after she was confessed, she died. Now, God have mercy on her soul, said Sir Percivale, it sore forthinketh me; but all we must change the life."
True, there are, by the direction of the Law-giver, certain good and substantial steps, placed even through the very midst of this slough; but at such time as this place doth much spew out its filth, as it doth against change of weather, these steps are hardly seen; or, if they be, men, through the dizziness of their heads, step beside, and then they are bemired to purpose, notwithstanding the steps be there; but the ground is good when they are once got in at the gate. [1 Sam. 12:23]
So the first said to him, "Thy sins be forgiven thee" [Mark 2:5]; the second stripped him of his rags, and clothed him with change of raiment [Zech. 3:4]; the third also set a mark on his forehead, and gave him a roll with a seal upon it, which he bade him look on as he ran, and that he should give it in at the Celestial Gate. [Eph. 1:13] So they went their way.
At this surprising change of my circumstances, from a merchant to a miserable slave, I was perfectly overwhelmed; and now I looked back upon my father’s prophetic discourse to me, that I should be miserable and have none to relieve me, which I thought was now so effectually brought to pass that I could not be worse; for now the hand of Heaven had overtaken me, and I was undone without redemption; but, alas! this was but a taste of the misery I was to go through, as will appear in the sequel of this story.
And then let any man explain to me, if he can, how it happened that Scrooge, having his key in the lock of the door, saw in the knocker, without its undergoing any intermediate process of change — not a knocker, but Marley's face.
Scrooge had observed this change, but never spoke of it, until they left a children's Twelfth Night party, when, looking at the Spirit as they stood together in an open place, he noticed that its hair was grey.
No change, no degradation, no perversion of humanity, in any grade, through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has monsters half so horrible and dread.
1995, Tom Piazza, The Guide to Classic Recorded Jazz, University of Iowa Press, →ISBN, page 62:
An improvising musician works with a sort of harmonic map of a certain song in his or her head. The map is usually referred to as the song's "changes," short for chord changes; the song is a progression through changing harmonic territory, the nature of which is designated in a harmonic shorthand of chords.
2005, Ann Collins, Lead Lines and Chord Changes, Alfred Music, →ISBN, page 14:
Improvise several choruses (new melodies) over the changes (chord progression) of "Do It Again Blues" on page 8.
A lot of popular music is based on the major chords I, IV and V. […] Musicians who are familiar with these sure-to-show-up chords are the ones who can anticipate the changes of a song the first time through.
2015, Duke Sharp, Garage Band Theory, →ISBN, page 432:
When you look through the changes (progression) in any song, one thing you can nearly always depend on is that the bass will be playing the root of the chord, at the moment the chord changes.
