tuba music with GR

Rusty Dodson dodson at heart.cor.epa.gov
Mon Jul 1 16:44:45 CDT 1996


I stumbled across this in the Univ. of CA card catalog.
Has anybody in San Diego seen or heard this?
(It's in the UCSD music library.)

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Search request: F PA T PYNCHON 
Search result:  31 records at all libraries
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2. MUSIC SCORE
Author:        Lippe, Cort, 1953-
Uniform title: Music, tuba.
Title:         Solo tuba music (1987) : for tuba alone / Cort Lippe. [Raleigh,
                 NC?] : Borik Press, [1992?], c1987.
Description:   1 score (7 p.) ; 28 cm.
Publisher No.: bp1122 Borik Press
Notes:         Solo tuba player, in addition to conventional playing, makes
                 secondary and percussive sounds, and vocal sounds which
                 incorpoate text from Gravity's rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.
               Includes program and performance notes and a composer biography.
Subjects:      Pynchon, Thomas -- Musical settings.
               Tuba music.
Other entries: Pynchon, Thomas.
Call numbers:  UCSD  Music     M97.L56 M8 1993 Stacks
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And what the hell are those "secondary" sounds, which are
neither percussive, vocal, nor conventional tuba?
Minor fourths perhaps?

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