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[Heikki Raudaskoski]

The orchestration in Van Dyke Parks' "Song Cycle" is Ivesian indeed.
(I noticed that only when I first happened to hear Ives, it was say
'80, on radio; I already knew SC by heart.) One more high'n'low mix.
Rococo VDP, baroque TRP. Scions of Am Transcendentalism, CI and TRP.


Heikki


On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Keith McMullen wrote:

>  >>>Another
> similarity between the two artists: Ives mixed popular
> American and high European culture elements to create
> a native American music, just as Pynchon combines pop
> and high culture elements in his work.<<<
>
> Perhaps Uncle Ives is a nod to such.
>
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