Klarinet Archive - Posting 000501.txt from 2001/11

From: Bear Woodson <bearwoodson@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Where can I get this book?
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 18:03:19 -0500

Hello, Mr. Page.

> Even at a seemingly backwater place such as Hardin-
> Simmons University (Abilene, TX), we had theory
> profs who were not only versed in such theory but
> also wrote in it...including your beloved Chromatic
> Modal Harmony.

By the way, I grew up moving all over the US and
Europe in a military family. I've never had a home
town, and have rarely had one address for as long as
3 years. Now I'm in Tucson, which is a small town,
or at least it seems so, after years in Los Angeles.

For 30 years I have been waiting for someone to
write a text on Chromatic Functional Modality, espec-
ially if they could find a shorter way to write out the
Harmonic Analysis. I would LOVE to get a copy of
this book!

In the last 2 1/2 years on these Instrument ListServes,
people have been tugging on my sleeve to write such a
text, but I've had so many other obligations. So far, when
someone would insist that there was such a text, they
would then find all kinds of excuses to NOT give me the
name of the book, nor the author.

I keep checking with theorists who teach these days
at Arizona State University, to see if they know of any
such text, as they are eager to get one, too, but they
keep insisting that none of the newer Theory Texts even
mention "Chromatic Functional Modality". There are
some similar systems, but they are not as thorough as
Mr. Lo Presti's teachings were.

PLEASE tell me who wrote this book, and where
to get it! This would be a wonderful break-through at
clarifying many problems in 20th Century Theory, that
are left unfulfilled by Set Theory and other systems.

Bear Woodson
Composer, Tucson, Arizona, USA

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