Reviews for The rise & development of military music

The average rating for The rise & development of military music based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-09-13 00:00:00 Luiz Fernando Cairo I read this one on the train on my way home from work today - NOT! Three decades ago I picked it up, finished nearly half, then was overwhelmed with his words and the strife of my then life. Two decades ago I picked it up and nearly finished the thing until others' words got in the way of his words and I had to use my own words to defend against said words and got lost in the sway. Rhythm, always rhythm. One day ago I finished it, complete, replete and without any sleep, yet strength enough to keep myself together. Awe, infamy, like the tides of mantle, pits without bottoms, sailing with waxed hulls, moved, irrefutable, unmistakable, confused, and understood as only in a song with soft and pretty lines. The kind we all love or hate. Make no mistake. Howl and scowl, the monstrous face of evil is at stake. Money. Pray nay, the misuse of money, tis mankind's fray. Masters of debt, usury through and through, they're the ugly ones, not me and you. Pray again, for all their dark deeds, it's their history, may they finally get their do. Hark ye fellow, herald it true. The Cantos, a must read for everyone, in a century, tis great, the one book you must do.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-10-11 00:00:00 Rachel Thurlow One of the greatest wordsmiths ever. Reading Pound, one feels the weight of civic responsibility. Pound rages at what he sees rending Western Civilization from its roots. He discloses history by mentioning it, using events as metaphors, as expressions, as examples of his points, and in doing this he expects you to know them. Pound's poetry convicts one to read Dante, to read Homer, to read the Troubadours. The Cantos really has no plot. The poem consists of approximately 120 shorter poems (themselves called "cantos," after the sections into which Dante divided each book of his Divine Comedy), some of which tell unified stories and some of which are simply collections of musings, observations, memories, and exhortations. To some extent (in my opinion) to really be able to understand the Cantos you have to strive to become Pound. This is not something the academics are willing to do, and many of them (in my opinion) miss the whole point. To become Pound means allowing yourself to become accept a certain sort of craziness. Putting aside questions of identifiable mental illness, there is a way in which Pound, in the Cantos, is often just not in touch with rationality as we ordinarily understand it. This is the craziness of someone who sees something that other people don't see (which is not in itself crazy) and who expects that other people will also see it if he just shows it to them. Like I said one of the greatest wordsmiths. Ever.