AtDTDA 32: Fantasia on a Fantasia of Thomas Tallis Pt. 1

[Lawrence Bryan]

On May 8, 2008, at 6:44 AM, robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

A lot of interesting stuff that ended with:

>
> It's one of the prettiest things ever written. OBA's plugging into
> a theme that pops up all the time in modernist fiction, weaving
> some famous piece of music into the plot of the novel, like Hesse's
> Steppenwolf---I say it's Mozart's Jupiter Symphony driving that
> Novel---Thomas Mann's "Dr. Faustus" and Beethoven's great c
> minor sonata, his last. Then there's Huxley's "Point-Counter-Point"
> and Beethoven's fantastic 15th quartet. Looming biggest of all in
> this fictional landscape is Proust..  Those who know, know.
>
> But back to "Fantasia". It's a pretty, pretty, pretty piece and it's
> modeled after the fantasias for viol consort that emerged out of
> the same cultural swamp that gave us the Courier's Tragedy---
> or, as us Ren-Folk like to put it: "The Jacobian Torture Faire!!!"
> To get to that level of "Fantasia" we have to look at the source,
> the little Thomas Tallis work that so inspired Sir Ralph:
>
> "Why fum'th in fight the Gentiles spite, in fury raging stout?
> Why tak'th in hand the people fond, vain things to bring about?
> The Kings arise, the Lords devise, in counsels met thereto,
> against the Lord with false accord, against His Christ they go."
>
> That's the text and it knots so well with Our Beloved Author's
> thoughts for the very same reason that "Meritorious Price"
> knots perfectly into all the writings of William's Greatest Grandson.
> Now I'm gonna grab that copy of Meritorious Price.
>
> And happy birthday to Friend Tom.
>
>

One can only wait with anxious eyes for the author, entranced with  
Boulez'   Le Marteau sans maître,  to create hizzer magnum opus.

Lawrence, happy to be able to post here again thanks  to Bekah and  
Oliver X



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