Dear Poundians, I hope Vol I of this series, released in July, has added to your enjoyment of /The Cantos/. Vol II is now available as an e-book. Both books can be read on your computer (recommended) or tablet. All best wishes, Margaret Fisher * Second Evening Art Publishing <http://www.ezrapoundmusic.com> Studies in the Music of Ezra Pound: Duration Rhyme and Great Bass <http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EBXO1WK> * */New! <http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EBXO1WK>/ Volume II: /The Transparency of Ezra Pound's Great Ba/ <http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EBXO1WK>/s//s / <http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EBXO1WK>*** <http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EBXO1WK>*$ 9.99 <http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EBXO1WK>* The basic premise of Pound's theory of great bass was daunting in its austerity, but not particularly revolutionary: rhythm is the fundamental element that determines artistic form in poetry and music. Pound went on, however, to make claims for a great bass beyond rhythm. He wrote about it as a trait that could identify genius in the person and in the work of art. A person endowed with great bass had a sense of "proportional frequency" and "perfect" or "absolute" rhythm. With such abstruse parameters, Pound's great bass has resisted analysis. This e-book examines great bass as a theory of rhythm and rhythmic influence against the backdrop ofseminal works on harmony from medieval times to the twentieth century: Dante, Franco of Cologne, Thomas Campion, Jean-Phillipe Rameau, Hermann von Helmholtz, Arnold Schoenberg and Henry Cowell, among others. In this setting, Pound's great bass joins thelong-standing practical and theoretical inquiry concerning the bass part and bass function in music, itself part of a larger ongoing investigation of human perception informed by musical cognition. The total number of contributions to the science of harmony in our century is three...Schoenberg's Harmonielehre, Schenker's Harmonielehre, and Pound's Treatise. This grouping may seem unusual, for the former two are carefully worked out philosophizings by musicians of great reputation, while Pound's Treatiseis a scramble of jottings on a subject about which he could be expected to have only the vaguest notions. But they are the right notions, and that is why I signaled it as an important text, . . . R. Murrray Schafer, /Ezra Pound and Music/ <http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DQHJ0JQ> *Volume I: /The Echo of Villon in Ezra Pound's Music and Poetry, Toward a Theory of Duration Rhyme/$5.00* <http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DQHJ0JQ> The principal essay of this e-book of essays about Pound's music identifies the duration rhyme as a metrical construct of musical proportion within Pound's/Cantos/. Using computer-assisted models, the author demonstrates how Pound applied the relative temporal durations of elements in his poems---vowels, syllables, words, phrases and verse lines---and the precise proportions that result from those relations to arrive at his great bass of a new poetic based on time durations and informed by music. Margaret Fisher <http://independent.academia.edu/margaretfisher>is author of /Ezra Pound's Radio Operas, The BBC Experiments/ (1931-1933) (The MIT Press, winner of the 2002 Ezra Pound Society Prize), /The Recovery of Ezra Pound's Third Opera/: Collis O Heliconii, /Settings of Poems by Catullus and Sappho/, and /The Echo of Villon in Ezra Pound's Music and Poetry, Toward a Theory of Duration Rhyme/. With Robert Hughes, she co-edited The Complete Music of Ezra Pound, a series of five volumes with engraved music scores for Second Evening Art Publishing. In 2008 she received the prestigious Rome Prize for work on early Italian Radio, Futurist Radio and a translation of /Radia/, Pino Masnata's posthumously published /Gloss of the 1933 Futurist Radio Manifesto/, with Fisher's Introduction and Notes (Second Evening Art, 2012). These ebooks are designed to be read with ebook reader software for tablets and computers. Many ebook readers can be downloaded for free. Second Evening Art Publishing 1420 45th Street #16 Emeryville CA 94608 www.ezrapoundmusic.com <http://www.ezrapoundmusic.com> <http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EBXO1WK>