Anything possibly related to atonal Chinese music?
Hsiu-ling Lin
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From: Dirceu Villa <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 6:29 AM
Subject: Re: What did Pound get from music?
> Mr. Rowland,
> One thing Pound certainly got from music was some
> ideas of rhythm, il basso profondo, and the character
> of repetition of a certain theme in variations (which
> he used many times throughout The Cantos, thinking of
> Johann Sebastian Bach's fugues, mostly, but without
> regularity). There are many inspiring singularities
> you can get from his study on George Antheil called
> "The Treatise on Harmony". It is easier to find the
> essay in Selected Prose of Ezra Pound (1909-1965),
> William Cookson (ed.), Faber & Faber.
> Another important feature was the words set to
> music, or the conception that all poetry tries to
> reach the condition of music (as Jorge Luis Borges
> refers Walter Pater's dictum). Pound even discovered
> a fine chanson by Arnaut Daniel in the Biblioteca
> Ambrosiana, and Walter Rummel transcribed it to a
> modern notation, with Pound's literary assistance.
> Music was for him a way of criticizing, too. He
> couldn't translate Villon, so he tried to understand
> and bring about, with music, the poetic qualities of
> every syllable in Villon's oeuvre.
> You can find musical references throughout his
> critical works (the ABC of Reading, for instance)and,
> as I do believe, implicit in his own poetry. An
> imitation of the beautiful patterns from elizabethan
> songs - i.e. Thomas Campion's mostly, who said "Music
> is Heaven" - can be found in Envoi, from Hugh Selwyn
> Mauberley. Or take his translations of Chinese in "The
> Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius",one of the
> most beautiful books of poems last century produced.
>
> Hope this was useful,
>
> D.
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