AtdTDA: 38 p. 1066 La Jarreti�re---Sidebar

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Stravinsky's 
"Pulcinella", a ballet cooked up in Paris, 1920. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4KYuhfag5I

Stravinsky took a number of themes from the Italian Opera 
composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi [themes which turned 
out to be spuriously attributed to Pergolesi, 

          . . . .some of it may have been written by Domenico Gallo, 
          Carlo Ignazio Monza, and possibly Alessandro Parisotti 
          and Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer. . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulcinella_(ballet)

—this is so "Crying of Lot 49 I can't stand it] 

and created this lovely little pastiche, a ballet with songs, 
the zippy buffa tunes of the late baroque all kinked up with 
Stravinsky's carefully placed dissonances. These off-center 
rhythms [Russian folk music is huge in Stravinsky] "ges' grew" 
[thank you "Mumbo Jumbo"] and eventually sheared off and 
turned into Rock and Roll on the other end. Major influence on 
Charlie Parker and Captain Beefhart.

Pynchon spends loads of time and gives lots of attention 
to modes and other musical considerations of the 
"Ancien Régime", no doubt anticipating Monk and 'Trane, and 
McClintic Sphere and the day music died as well.

And like the dude sez: keep cool but care.