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Re: Pound/Duncan
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Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]>
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- Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 11 Oct 2003 08:35:17 -0400
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Pound has the melody imitating the vowels, just as with Antheil he had
worked out complex time signatures to imitate the spoken delivery of his
meters -- to have the musical performance imitate the durations of vowels
and pauses.
Tim Romano

At 04:12 PM 10/8/03, Tim Bray wrote:
>I have wondered how lyricists writing in tonal languages fit the shapes
>of vowels to the shape of the melody...

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