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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000064.txt from 2006/10
From: Bear Woodson <bearwoodson@-----.net>
Subj: [DR-L] a few Triple Fugue Facts
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:59:56 -0400
> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 07:44:19 -0400
> To: doublereed@-----.org
> From: Donald MacCourt <maccourt@-----.net>
> Subject: Re: [DR-L] Music Since 1950 /
> 3 New Fugues in Doublereed Trio
> Message-id: <001601c6e6e1$435baf30$0502a8c0@IMPALER>
>=20
> I don't know who you are with your rather
> aggressive self promotion, but check out the
> Hindemith Septet for a rather classy tripple
> fugue. Of course he didn't claim to have
> invented it.
I never said that I "invented the Triple Fugue"!
Every First Year Counterpoint Student knows that
Triple Fugues have been around for 300 years.
What I said, which is TRUE and IMPORTANT
in Counterpoint History, is that I have INVENTED
Triple Fugues that HARMONIZE in Chromatic
Modality when ALL 3 Fugue Subjects are in
INVERSION (the melodies are written "Upside-
Down").=20
I've also written Triple Fugues that HARMONIZE
in Chromatic Modality when ALL 3 Fugue Subjects
are in RETROGRADE (the melodies are written
"Backwards") as well as in RETROGRADE-
INVERSION (when the melodies are written out
both Backwards and Upside-Down)!!! (Those 3
New Kinds of Fugues appear in the 4th Movement
Triple Fugue of my Double Reed Trio.)
To date there is NO EVIDENCE of ANY earlier
composer in history, ever having done that! Certainly
not by a famous composer, whose works are as well-
studied as Bach, Bart=F3k, Hindemith, Messiaen, etc.
(The more I study those masters and other Masters
from history, the more I learn from and treasure their
music!) If any of my New Kinds of Fugues were
written by an Earlier Composer, if would have to be
by some NON-Famous Composer that is still
unknown to the many scholars I've asked for years!
If you think I'm doing something petty, common,
or unethical in any way, you are Morally Obligated to
try to disprove it! I'm a BIG FAN of Hindemith, I
know many of his works well for many years, but I
don't know this Septet. PLEASE SHOW US where
Hindemith writes Triple Fugues in INVERSION,
RETROGRADE and RETROGRADE-INVERSION
in this Septet or ANY one of his other wonderful
works! Enlighten us all!
I've only been studying Counterpoint for about 35
years. I was trained as a composer from 1971 to 1980,
but then got out of music for many years. I came back
to composing heavily and started Inventing New Kinds
of Fugues since the Mid-1990's, when I took my
Master's in Music Composition, Music Theory with
a Specialty in Late 20th Century Music Theory, and
Counterpoint.=20
> I don't know who you are
I'm the guy who has Contrapuntists and Music
Theorists from around the world in the last few years,
scrambling to see if ANY Earlier Composer has
EVER Written ANYTHING EVEN CLOSE to any
ONE of my Nine Copyrighted Categories of Newly
Invented Fugues! So far their research keeps
confirming me as the Inventor of all of my Nine
Newly Invented Categories of Fugues!
Try Googling these words, with the Quotation
Marks around them, (which groups them as One
Concept for the computer):
"Triple Fugue in Inversion"
"Triple Fugue in Retrograde"
"Triple Fugue in Retrograde-Inversion"
It shows ONLY one name, and that name is neither
Bach, Hindemith, Bart=F3k nor anyone but myself!
I've already had one ENTIRE DISSERTATION
written about me, and that's not even about my
Counterpoint! (It's about my some of my sonatas
for Horn and my Horn Concerto.)
In just a few words, you've managed to make it
very clear to thousands of musicians around the
world, that you have NO background in Counter-
point nor Basic Reading Comprehension. You might
want to take your first class in Counterpoint, and
open yourself to a Wonderful World of some of
the Most Inspiring Music in History by Ockeghem,
Josquin Des Prez, Brumel, Palestrina, Bach, Haydn,
Mozart, Brahms, Reger, Shostakovich, Hindemith,
etc.! . . . . But first you might want to learn how to
spell "triple" correctly.
Bear Woodson =20
Composer in Tucson, Arizona, USA
The Only Composer in history PROVEN to
have Invented NINE New Categories of Fugues.
=20
"Bear Woodson" <bearwoodson@-----.net>
Bachelor's in Music Theory & Composition from:
Arizona State University and
California Institute of the Arts, Dec. 1977
Full Fellowship at the Richard Strauss Conservatory
in Munich, with Dr. Peter Jona Korn 1979-1980
Master's in Music Theory & Composition from:
Arizona State University, May 1996
Nominated in Spring 2003 for:
Arizona Governor's Arts Award and a Pulitzer
=20
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
http://www.fluteconnection.net/
Then click on "Contemporary Composers",
then click on "Bear Woodson".
=20
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=3D7=
0
brFieK =20
This is the website and E-Mail Address for an
International Fugue Society based in Italy, that has
been looking through Scores of my Newly Invented
Fugue since July 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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