Symphony Song Poem by Mason Maestro

Double pipe, Bagpipes, three-string aborigine

Shaman lute, bone flute tonality
Ancient Gymel, hymnal Seikilos Epitaph
Polyphony, drone note phonograph 

Concerto, sonata, and symphony 
Opera, cantata symmetry
Elemental instrumental formula
Classical woodwind orchestra

Drunken Mussorgski, a blinded Bach

Schubert schlepped a staggered walk
Finger-wrecked Schumann, Dvorak trainspotting
Kern's scores composed thin plotting
 
Where do we find perspective 
Was it always playing
Its harmony ever swaying 
Is there absolute directive
Was its nature changing 
Voice of sound is fading

Ragtime, folk march, boogie jazz
Swing, waltz, foxtrot, band of brass
Two-step, slow-drag, crude coon song 
Stride-style, cakewalk, stew spoon thong

Deep south blues, groove, delta block
Juke joint, country, pop and rock
Twelve-bar, blue note, shuffle beat
Acoustic, soul/skiffle fusion suite

Apology to Socrates
Britons in the colonies 
Horses drawn, Habsburgs gone
Taken to a new dawn

Where do we find perspective 
Was it always playing
Its harmony ever swaying 
Is there absolute directive
Was its nature changing 
Voice of sound is fading

Guthrie, Waters, Seeger, Lennon
Dylan, record villain, melodic million
Music arranged, keynotes exchanged
Eras of an age estranged