Hi Barry,
Yes, I didn't want to push the repeat idea too far. I sometimes work with
repeated lines but let that idea go in this instance, partly because in such a
short poem of three word lines it would get a bit heavy or obvious.
Thanks for the info re Hannibal Lecter and Gould. I only saw that film once many
years ago, on television, and obviously was not paying that much attention. I
usually do to such bits of information. The words 'sustain' does not need to
enter the public conversation further. The film itself I didn't much mind, though
I only watched because I thought at the time I should, to know what the fuss was
about.
Cheers,
Jill
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Jill Jones
www.jilljones.com.au
On Mon May 30 1:13 , Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> sent:
>Hi Jill,
>
>Yes, once I discovered the traditional poetic aspects of the aria da capo, I
assumed that you were creating a contemporary approximation of that form with
your three three line stanzas with three words to each line plus the appearance
of fell or fall in each stanza. Repeating the first stanza wouldn't have worked
as well as the third stanza you wrote.
>
>When I did a search on youtube for Aria Da Capo, the first possibility seems to
have been Gould's rendition, though instead of noting the performer, the provider
stressed that this was Hannibal Lector's favorite music. The new context created
by pop culture for Bach's composition could twist your sense of "sustains" for
some readers.
>
>Barry
>
>On Fri, 27 May 2011 00:25:37 +0000, [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>Hi Barry,
>>
>>My approach was not too close an interpretation of da capo, although I used three
>>line line verses of three words. I was being a bit free and associative in a
>>number of ways while also thinking of form. The repeat idea partly began with the
>>word 'fell' which I wanted to use in various ways, including the old sense of
>>deadly. For some reason it is a word that I was thinking of as I walked to the
>>bus stop, perhaps because I had a bad fall recently walking along a street (a
>>different street).
>>
>>The poem is a real 'snap' in the moment in that I wrote it entire on the bus
>>trip. I was also thinking of music I had been listening to before leaving home,
>>Glenn Gould's 1955 recording of Bach, including Aria Da Capo. There is something
>>about them, and about much of Bach (the cello suites, also, for instance), that
>>sustains me at certain times, if that doesn't sound too sentimental.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Jill
>>
>>
>>________________________
>>Jill Jones
>>
>>www.jilljones.com.au
>>
>>
>>
>>On Fri May 27 0:35 , Barry Alpert [log in to unmask]> sent:
>>
>>>Jill,
>>>
>>>After a number of readings in which I was mainly preoccupied with syntactical
>>relationships (partly because of the lack of punctuation), I'm still intrigued.
>>Interesting to consider as well in light of this wikipedia description:
>>>
>>>The text for a da capo aria was typically a poem or other verse sequence written
>>in two strophes, the first for the A section (hence repeated later) and the
>>second for B. Each strophe consisted of from three to six lines, and terminated
>>in a line containing a masculine ending.
>>>
>>>Barry
>>>
>>> On Thu, 26 May 2011 02:53:57 +0000, [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]>
>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>Aria da capo
>>>>
>>>>fixtures and rain
>>>>fell to scatter
>>>>dark mark paver
>>>>
>>>>fall drug cold
>>>>but aria comes
>>>>I am capable
>>>>
>>>>nothing halts tempo
>>>>today cornered fell
>>>>but arcs win
>>>>
>>>>________________________
>>>>Jill Jones
>>>>
>>>>www.jilljones.com.au
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