Seems a bit over the top for such a simple piece of music.
--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, lsf5275@... wrote:
>
> Don't be silly, Frank. You're acting like an intellectual flyweight This is
> interesting...
>
> _http://www.inthewakeofposeidon.ukf.net/samples2.htm_
> (http://www.inthewakeofposeidon.ukf.net/samples2.htm)
>
> What is it?
> It is the first in a series of informative, insightful, interactive,
> musical guides to the secret mechanics that power the mysterious music of King
> Crimson. It is generously illustrated with musical notation diagrams that you
> simply click with your mouse to play using your computer's sound card.
> Plus there's a full score of "Larks' Tongues In Aspic" you can play, print out
> and keep.
> This is a scholastic yet accessible work. Andrew Keeling's credentials as
> composer and academic are impeccable and he will be well-known to King
> Crimson enthusiasts as DGM recording artist and erstwhile diarist. Keeling's
> powerful, challenging ideas are given full throat by Mark Graham's brilliant,
> interactive, multimedia illustrations.
> This guide takes you through all the complexities of the music, stripping
> away layer after layer to reveal the inner workings of the exquisite
> machinery of harmony, counterpoint and rhythm that, seemingly so effortlessly, go
> together to make: "Larks' Tongues In Aspic".
> ~
> "This is a 'must-have' for all fans of good music and a definitive work on
> an icon of Progressive Rock."
> ~
>
>
> In a message dated 1/10/2010 1:07:20 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> lsf5275@... writes:
>
> It appears to me that when David said that he "scanned through" a preview
> copy, it probably meant that he read the inside of the cover (quoted here)
> and threw it in the trash. I just looked it up and this book was published
> by Douche Bag Press.
>