It's about music!

[Keith Davis]

It's all about phrasing, as I always stress to my students, and his phrasing is very musical...from somber and dark to light and whimsical...he is able to convey lots of different moods, and the moods don't have to necessarily fit the subject matter, so something that might be dark receives a light hearted treatment...that's my light hearted short version.

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> On Dec 21, 2015, at 7:08 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm no muso but I'll pay you this much: has any fiction writer gotten
> away with original lyrics in the first ten pages of their debut novel?
> Or even wanted to?
> 
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 10:57 PM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
> <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Or at least also about music ... One may see bigger themes in Pynchon ---
>> "the century's master cabal" (V, p. 226), technology, "the fork in the road
>> America never took" (GR, p. 556), or (since Vineland) family --- but music,
>> though this is rarely analyzed by the academic Pyndustry,  plays a certain
>> role in all of Pynchon's books ... And not just one genre of music, music in
>> general ... There's an ongoing interest in classical music, from Stravinsky
>> in V to Wagner and Puccini in Bleeding Edge, including, among other things,
>> fictional Kazoo pieces from Vivaldi  (TCoL49, chapter 1) and Haydn (GR, p.
>> 711) ... But also - from McClintic Sphere's saxophone playing in V over
>> Ragtime in Against the Day to the HipHop culture in Bleeding Edge - in
>> African American music ... Plus lots of other musical phenomena popping up
>> in Pynchon's books ...  With Zoyd Wheeler we have, in addition to McClintic
>> Sphere, another professional musician as male protagonist, here from
>> Pynchon's second work phase ... And with Mucho Maas, who goes from DJ to
>> record producer (and from acid to blow), there is a music related character
>> as an indicator of cultural change connecting Pynchon 1 with Pynchon 2 ...
>> Equally relevant: Pynchon's phrasing as a writer follows the musical
>> criteria of flow, he's the auditive type of writer (- in contrary to more
>> visually orientated authors like, for example, Ernst Jünger or Claude Simon)
>> ... Especially obvious this becomes with the incorporation of songs into the
>> novels, which is, on this world-literary level, as far as I can see unique
>> ... What do the musicians on the list say? Is Pynchon - as one could perhaps
>> say in analogy to formulations like  'writer's writer' and 'musician's
>> musician' - a, well, 'musician's writer?' Let me know! ... "The old man was
>> singing, in a fine, firm baritone:/ Every night is Christmas Eve on old East
>> Main,/ Sailors and their sweethearts all agree./ Neon signs of red and
>> green/ Shine upon the friendly scene,/ Welcoming you in from off the sea./
>> Santa's bag is filled with all your dreams come true:/ Nickel beers that
>> sparkle like champagne,/ Barmaids who all love to screw,/ All of them
>> reminding you/ It's Christmas Eve on old East Main." (V, pp. 9-10) ...
>> Cheers!
>> 
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