Which reminds me, out of left field of my lost years, of the lines from
Steely Dan's Your Gold Teeth:
Even Cathy Berberian knows
There's one roulade she can't sing
OK, I'll slink away now.
Cheesily,
Jill
On Sunday, December 7, 2003, at 09:16 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
> Ever heard any of the pieces Luciano Berio wrote for his wife Cathy
> Berberian? Some of those make music not of words, perhaps, but
> certainly of . . . well, let's say, vocalizations. There's one in which
> the only actual word that emerges from the flow of vocalizations is
> "paroles."
>
> I think keys can translate to tonal qualities in poetry more than
> individual notes can. Single notes are more akin to syllables, perhaps.
>
> Hal, just winging it in his vulgar sort of way
>
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