MDDM18: A Versitility of Tone

[Dave Monroe]

   "Upon his own side of the Bed, Dixon snores in a
versitility of Tone that Mason, were he less anxious
about getting to sleep, might be taking Notes upon,
perhaps to be written up and submitted to the
Philosophical Transactions, so unexpectedly polyphonic
do some passages emerge, all at the same unhurried,
yet presently infuriating, Andante."  (M&D, Ch. 29,
pp. 292-3)

Okay, I know y'all know, but ...

"Polyphony is the writing of music in many parts or in
more than one part, with reference in particular to
contrapuntal practices. Monody or monophony are
possible opposites."

http://www.hnh.com/NewDesign/fglossary.files/bglossary.files/Polyphony.htm

"Andante (Italian: walking) is a word used to suggest
the speed of a piece of music, at walking pace. The
diminutive andantino is ambiguous and means either a
little faster or a little slower than andante, more
often the former."

http://www.hnh.com/NewDesign/fglossary.files/bglossary.files/andante.htm

The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of
London (1665-present), e.g. ...

http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/

http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/phil_maths/phil_maths.html

http://www.jstor.org/journals/02607085.html

But I'll leave it to y'all to speculate on what range
of Musicks might be characterized by "so unexpectedly
polyphonic do some passages emerge, all at the same
unhurried, yet presently infuriating, Andante" and to
catalogue their deployments in those various
Pynchonian texts.  But consider the following ...

http://home.achilles.net/~howardm/pynchon.shtml

Let me know ...




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