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...