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A Vocabulary for Peter Innisfree Moore by Jackson Mac Low
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I have a signed copy from Jackson from 1978 - wch wd've been right around when I 1st met him or shortly thereafter. Each letter in each word has an assigned pitch. There are 10 letters in Moore's name - hence there are 10 pitches. MacLow was one of the most methodical of the scorers of performance poetry & this piece is a nice example. What's shown here as the 'cover' is the score. Its backside is the instructions as to how to perform it. I dug this out of my artist's bk box & I'm finding so much great stuff there that it's tempting to perform a whole concert based on scores like this one.
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May 7, 2008 – Shelved
May 7, 2008 – Shelved as: scores
May 7, 2008 – Shelved as: poetry

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message 1: by Margaret (new)
Nov 10, 2012 06:48PM

Margaret Joyce Hi, we're discussing this now at www.coursera.org in a free online course given by Al Filreis et al called 'Modern and Contemporary American poetry.' Check it out, if you're so inclined.


message 2: by Tentatively, (new) - rated it 4 stars
Nov 11, 2012 04:44AM

Tentatively, Convenience Thx for the tip! It's delightful to be able to so unexpectedly dip into something like that!


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