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Re: [OT] Despair not

2010-01-10 by markpringnz

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.
>

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