Klarinet Archive - Posting 000105.txt from 2006/09

From: Paul Harris <ppharris@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 11 Sep 2006 09:01:01 -0000 Issue 6855
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:01:35 -0400


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> klarinet Digest 11 Sep 2006 09:01:01 -0000 Issue 6855
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> Topics (messages 88578 through 88579):
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> Re: Another Saxophone Question
> 88578 by: Martin Marks
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> hello again
> 88579 by: Bear Woodson
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> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:37:11 -0400
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> From: Martin Marks <martymarks@-----.com>
> Subject: Re: [kl] Another Saxophone Question
> Message-ID: <15725456.1157927831986.JavaMail.martymarks@-----.com>
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> On Tuesday, September 05, 2006, at 00:04AM, Kevin Fay <kevin.fay.home@-----.net> wrote:
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>> Khachaturian's Sabre Dance - I'm told (by my conductor) that it has 2
>> clarinet parts, bass clarinet and alto saxophone.
>>
>> . . . but my memory tells me that it's a *tenor.*
>>
>> Unfortunately, I'd put my conductor's instruction about the same on the
>> veracity meter as my dim memory of college days long past.
>>
>> Does anyone on the list have more recent info?
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>>
> I Played the alto sax part a few seasons ago with a local orchestra. I can't remember If there was a tenor sax part.
>
> Marty Marks
>
No Tenor sax. Just alto in the middle part of the dance.
-Paul Harris

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> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:29:14 -0700
> To: Klarinet List <klarinet@-----.org>
> From: Bear Woodson <bearwoodson@-----.net>
> Subject: hello again
> Message-ID: <C12A261A.546EF%bearwoodson@-----.net>
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> Hello, Everyone.
>
> I've done little or nothing about all the Instrument
> List E-Mails for over a year, which is why I now
> have nearly 5,000 of them on my computer. Since
> I'm finally reading and storing some recent Klarinet
> Digests, I might as well say 'hello'.
>
> In the last 6 months I have been working on a
> huge First Symphony, which I hope will be over an
> hour long, when all 4 movements are done. The
> First Movement is done at 29 minutes, and contains
> 2 examples of one of my Newly Invented Fugues:
> the "QDS Fugue".
>
> Since the Renaissance it has been possible to write
> melodies in Four Directions: Original, in Inversion
> (Upside-Down), in Retrograde (Backwards) and in
> Retrograde-Inversion (both Backwards and Upside-
> Down at the same time).
>
> The Renaissance Master Johannes Ockeghem (ca.
> 1410-1497) was famous for writing "Cancrizans
> Canons" or "Retrograde Canons" by "strettoing"
> ("straddling" or "overlapping") an Original melody
> with its own Retrograde at the same time.
>
> Bach and Mozart wrote a few "Inversion Canons"
> by overlapping the Original with itself written Upside-
> Down.
>
> But NO ONE could overlap ALL FOUR
> DIRECTIONS of a melody at the SAME TIME in
> Functional (Tonal or Modal) Harmony, until I did it
> in 2003. I call it the "QDS Fugue" or the "Quadruple
> Directional Stretto Fugue". It was my Ninth Category
> of Newly Invented Fugue, and have done it 8 times
> in various works, with 2 at the end of the First Move-
> ment of my First Symphony. I am also making it to
> be somewhat of a Concerto for Orchestra, so there
> are already a few good solos for each of the 2 Bb
> Soprano Clarinets and the Bb Bass Clarinet.
>
> I had to suspend work in the middle of the Fast
> Second Movement, because I'm trying to do a feat
> of Counterpoint that's difficult, even for me. In the
> process I've invented my TENTH Category of
> Fugue just last month, with the possibility of more
> on the horizon.
>
> I gotta get back to the Happy Farm. I hope all of
> you are happy and well.
>
> Bear Woodson
> Composer in Tucson, Arizona, USA
>
> (Fact: In Medicine a "Fugue" is a type of short-
> circuited brain seizure, brought on by stress. In
> Music a "Fugue" is a complicated contrapuntal
> work, that interlocks melodies, according to
> complicated rules.)
>
> "If you work too long at writing a Musical
> Fugue, you can end up having a Medical
> Fugue!" - Bear Woodson (1990)
>
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