<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hmmm...did you verify her discovery?<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 2, 2013, at 7:58 AM, David K Feurzeig wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear list:<br><br>Elizabeth Bemak, a student in my 20th-C theory class, observed that in Ives' song "The Cage", all the notes in the vocal line longer than an eighth spell "C-A-G-E" (in order). <br><br>That was news to me! Am I just late to the party? I haven't seen this pointed out in any published analysis or discussion. <br><br>In his chapter on "The Cage" in The Music of Charles Ives, Philip Lambert devotes two pages to Ives' emphasis on these four pitches. He makes fascinating and sometimes very subtle observations, but never notes this perhaps more obvious--and more ordered--implementation of the pun.<br><br>David<br><br>David Feurzeig<br>Associate Professor, Composition and Theory<br>Music Department<br>University of Vermont<br>Burlington, VT 05405<br>802-656-1498<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Smt-talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org">Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org</a><br>http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><div>*************************************</div><div>*************************************</div><div>David M. Bishop, Ph.D.</div><div>Project Coordinator</div><div>Hurley Research Group</div><div><br></div><div>University of Arizona</div><div>College of Pharmacy</div><div>1703 E. Mabel</div><div>Room 318</div><div>Tucson, AZ 85721</div><div><br></div><div>Telephone: 520 626-5621</div><div>Fax: 520 626-0035</div><div><a href="mailto:bishop@pharmacy.arizona.edu">bishop@pharmacy.arizona.edu</a></div><div>**************************************</div><div>**************************************</div></div></div><div><div>Cats and music: the two refuges from the miseries of life </div><div>—Albert Schweitzer</div></div></div></div></span></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>