Ted- I am a playwright, also new to the Pound list...
please fill me in on Pound & Arnaud.  Who's Arnaud?
Very interesting...
Also, tell me about yourself!
Zack gonzales
 
At 12:58 PM 11/23/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi-
>
>I am new to the list, but since there doesn't seem to be much
>going on, I thought I might as well take a chance and post,
>and just hope that I'm not too far off topic.
>
>I know that Pound copied some of Arnaud's work, with musical
>notation--did he attempt to set the works to music, or had
>Arnaud made musical notations?
>
>I am particularly interested in finding  any information on
>the methods that Pound might have used for finding and using
>melodies.
>
>I am a composer, and am developing a system for teaching
>creative skills to songwriters and lyricists.  I rely heavily
>on ideas similar to those that Pound had expressed concerning
>the relationship between  musical and poetic meters.
>
>I have developed a satisfactory methodology for generating
>and assigning melodies to rhythmic meter, but it is based on
>a minimalist theory (which is very well suited to the needs
>of contemporary songwriters), and I am extremely curious as
>to how Pound delt with this question.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ted
>
>
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