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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000018.txt from 2006/10

From: herb fawcett <herbgosia@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Music Since 1950 / 3 New Fugues in Doublereed Trio
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:53:18 -0400

Yeah,
I like Piston, Berg, Stockhausen, Schoenberg, Martin, Hindemith, Sessions,
Badings, Boulanger, and any number of others, some of whom were writing in
1940. I do not find Milhaud interesting, nor is all the music of the above
mentioned guys listenable to me, but I sure like some of it. Robert Hughes
wrote some very interesting stuff when he was involved with the computer at
Mills College.
I find dualities non-productive. Us and them. Me and him, etc.

Herb

On 10/2/06 10:58 AM, "Bear Woodson" <bearwoodson@-----.net> wrote:

>> Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 22:53:02 -0700
>> To: <doublereed@-----.org>
>> From: herb fawcett <herbgosia@-----.net>
>> Subject: Re: [DR-L] Music Since 1950 Poll
>> Message-ID: <C144A5CE.16667%herbgosia@-----.net>
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>> Don't be snide.
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> What is this supposed to mean?
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> My point is that we live in a time when News from
> around the world is known to millions in a matter of
> seconds, and yet:
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> 1) Precious few people, even Classically Trained
> Professional Musician, can tell the difference between
> Harmony Invented BEFORE or AFTER 1900, the
> Change Over to the New Harmonic Languages of the
> 20th Century. (Harmonic Languages tend to run about
> 300 years at a time.) Most of the Public is still listening
> to harmony from the Previous Harmonic Era, the
> "Tonal Era" [1600-1900] of Harmony, in their recently
> written Popular Music, but they THINK the harmony
> is NEW!=20
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> 2) Most of the "University Composer Music" from
> 1940 to 1990, was Grindingly Dissonant "Atonal 12-
> Tone", or "Abstract Impressionism", or "Aleatoric"
> ("Totally Random Music", to "literally sprinkle ink on
> the page an play it"), etc. Most of the Public never even
> knew this was happening. Are you saying that you
> KNEW about the mountains of this kind of music and
> ACTUALLY ENJOY it?!? (You'd be the first one in
> the 35 years, since I've began studying Music! Even the
> composers that I knew who wrote that kind of junk,
> wouldn't sing it to themselves in their shower! I made
> it a point to ask them that.)
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> 3) Trying to find out about the Good "Beethovens" of
> Our Time, and their Music, is still not easy; but at least
> many of them are Women Composers!
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> These facts SHOULD be Common Knowledge, but
> finding people who know them well, is RARE, even on
> This List!=20
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> These are FACTS. They are sad, but they ARE facts.
> I see nothing good, nor snide, about stating facts.
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> As for this other comment:
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>> I am sure the audience is having an attack of ecstasy
>> upon hearing that you have found and identified yet
>> another ten forms of fugue.
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> Oops, no. I think you misunderstand. I did NOT
> "find", recognize, discover, nor "identify" "ten forms
> of fugues". You make it sound as if I found a New
> Way to EXPLAIN Counterpoint in the music by
> composers of the past. Anyone could learn how to
> do that. That's a mediocre goal to attain.
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> Almost no one in history can be proven to have
> INVENTED an Entirely NEW Kind of Fugue. When
> Bart=F3k INVENTED ONE Entirely NEW Kind of
> Fugue in 1936, he was declared to be a genius. As of
> the Summer of 2005, I've invented NINE Entirely
> NEW Kinds of Fugues. (A growing list of experts
> from around the world have been confirming these
> facts.)=20
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> Recently I've invented a Tenth Category of Fugue,
> but I plan to use it in 2 different orchestral works that
> will take months to finish writing, and then will take
> more months for them to be Copyrighted. I don't
> divulge much about works that haven't been Copy-
> righted yet.=20
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> However I can say that Three of my Newly Invented
> Fugues occur in my Double Reed Trio:
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> "Trio No. 1 for Oboe, English Horn and Bassoon"
> (Dec. 2003, 5 mvts., 19 min.)
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> I Introduction & Vivace 4' 25"
> II Conversation: Adagio 3' 50"
> III Scherzo - Arabesque - Scherzo 4' 35"
> IV Triple Fugue: Largo 3' 45"
> (This is the First time in all known
> history, when a Triple Fugue harmonizes
> in Chromatic Modal Harmony, when the
> Three Fugue Subjects are turned in
> Inversion, Retrograde and Retrograde-
> Inversion!)
> V Moto Perpetuo: Allegro 2' 30"
> Total Time: 19' 05"
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> We had originally planned to do a recital at
> Northwestern University in Chicago by an Oboe
> Student there. He DID make a wonderful
> recording of a different Trio of mine, (for Flute,
> Oboe and Bb Clarinet) on May 18, 2004, but when
> it came to doing this Doublereed Trio, he vanished.
> My Doublereed Trio remains unread, unperformed
> and unrecorded.=20
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> We had hoped to give a recital with other of my
> Chamber Works, to be their World Premieres and
> also introduce Several Newly Invented Kinds of
> Fugues at the same time. It would be the FIRST
> and ONLY TIME in History, that something of this
> rarity would happen, but now it is all on hold. Does
> anyone here have any suggestions?
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> Bear Woodson=20
> Composer in Tucson, Arizona, USA
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> The Only Composer in history KNOWN to
> have Invented TEN New Categories of Fugues.
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> This website shows a picture of my face, lists
> some of my works and the first Nine of my
> Categories of Newly Invented Fugues:
> http://69.17.4.94/comp/woodson.html
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> http://www.fluteconnection.net/
> Then click on "Contemporary Composers",
> then click on "Bear Woodson".
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> These are two listings for the Dissertation that
> was written entirely about 4 of my Horn Works:
> http://catalog.lib.asu.edu/search/a?SEARCH=3DMcGale
> http://www.music.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/chmtl/isearchddm?DATABASE=3Dddm&TERM_1=
=3D70
> brFieK
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> This is the website and E-Mail for an International
> Fugue Society based in Italy, that has been looking
> at my Newly Invented Fugue Scores since 2005:
> Kunst der Fuge, =20
> http://www.kunstderfuge.com/
> OnClassical, http://www.onclassical.com/
> "Signor Alessandro Simonetto"
> <alessandro.simonetto@-----.com>
> =20
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