Margaret, Congratulations! One of these days you'll hit critical mass with the market. I bought it and posted an announcement about it to FaceBook and Twitter.... Your check and lovely note came. Thank you! I'm running on empty but still running. I hope all is well with you and Bob. With affection, Dirk On 8/7/2013 10:56 AM, <Margaret Fisher> DIGEST wrote: > 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>