Legrand used a long, baroque-style melody that rises in upward patterns before descending back to the home note.
Directed to replace the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" in a movie scene, the songwriters created a "mind trip" with stream-of-consciousness lyrics and surreal imagery like a "carousel running rings around the moon". The Saxophone Interpretation Michel Legrand-The Windmills of Your Mind(Saxophone)
The song is primarily based on the E minor harmonic scale , though much of the melody utilizes the natural minor. It features an extensive use of the circle of fifths , which creates a sense of perpetual motion. Legrand used a long, baroque-style melody that rises
The piece is famous for its "circular" feel, mirroring the "circles within circles" imagery of the lyrics. Legrand used a long