Anything possibly related to atonal Chinese music? Hsiu-ling Lin ----- Original Message ----- From: Dirceu Villa <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> 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. > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® > http://movies.yahoo.com/ >