Klarinet Archive - Posting 000059.txt from 2001/05

From: Jim Bartram <jbartram@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Reed Balance
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 22:30:25 -0400

At 08:40 AM 5/2/01 -0700, Neil Leupold wrote:
>--- William Wright <Bilwright@-----.net> wrote:
>
>> ....although even in music, a symmetric or mirror-reflection
>> composition or accompaniment can be a fun idea to tinker with, but
>> normally not an artistic goal.
>
>Pick up a textbook on tone rows and set theory, Bill. There are
>dozens of them out there. Inversions, retrogrades, regrograde in-
>versions, the whole bit. Or a Schoenberg biography will do. You
>might change your mind (you might not).
>
>~ Neil
>

Or for that matter, get the score and a recording of Bach's "Art of Fugue",
where many of these contrapuntal techniques are exhibited in graceful musical
contexts! Donald Francis Tovey's little book, "A companion to the Art of
Fugue", has some very good, accessible analyses.

--Jim

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