rhyee wrote:
BOB:
The reviewers are complaining that her book has no analysis of Frank's music. So I posted this:
[[Frank wasn't a music literalist or fundamentalist. He considered any human expression within the province of music - especially after the appearance of John Cage. So, actually, Pauline, your book IS about Frank's music!! Since the psychological connectives, discontinuities, and nuances make up the SPRECHSTIMME framework of much of Zappa's compositional emphasis, then the body language and mental-gestural dance (ESP) that you are very good at evoking during intimate encounters within the log cabin scene is an important factor in understanding and enjoying Frank's rhythms. Frank did say that he saw a conceptual (uniquely for Frank) connection between what the blues artists (Hooker, Slim, Watson, et al.) created and what the new classical composers (Webern, Berg, et al.) created in their common interest in composing speech-based musical rhythms. This is why Zappa-informed readers of your book feel/intuit there is NEW information in it. A casual glance by someone who had no familiarity with Frank's OEUVRE would think your book is just gossip from a fashion-industry functionary who happened to wander into Monty Python's "Argument Clinic" and mistook it for an acting-school class. :@) So next time, you tell these stick-in-the-muds your book is the key to postmodern and paramodern music!!]]
Bob Dobbs
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