Alan is right, the Spoleto recording, and agreed the Usura piece is a chant.
The rest of his meditations upon Pound and Bunting very interesting, not least
re Pound and line-endings. As someone who has thought much about consonant
timing, I still think the duration of the "r" is used by Pound to help him
time the line in relation to his voice, as well as to add a harsh, aggressive
tonality.
Pace Anne Rouse, I would be easily convinced if an American described Pound's
accent as Europeanised by this time. I used to work with whole bunches of
Europeanised American accents at Agence France-Presse here in Paris and still
do encounter them every day. The Frenchified version is almost an accent on
its own, with American regional colouration, of course. And there's a British
version too. Also, listen to the matrician tones of HD towards the end of her
life: almost difficult to identify her accent at all, though I assume
Pennsylvania is in there somewhere.
Doug
Doug
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