[NewMusic] old newmusic

[Phillip Greenlief]

bListers,

I think he wrote a textbook I was assigned in Donald Crockett's
counterpoint class at USC - either Counterpoint or Orchestration...

There, I just checked on the shelf - it's a counterpoint text - it was
really helpful in getting all the Bach stuff figured out. That was
pretty much the approach- to look at counterpoint through a Baroque
conceptual lens. (individual voice, 2-voice, invertible counterpoint,
three voice, imitation, inventions and sonatas, 4 voice fugue). It
worked for me - I felt like I understood that stuff when we were
finished, but I haven't thought about it all that much since then. It
helps when you're composing - without a doubt. It's helped the listening
process become sharper...not sure what else stayed - you hear stuff when
you compose and hopefully you get in shaped into some form that you can
share with others so they know what you want to hear. 

AND, he co-wrote the Orchestration text I had in Rick's class (with
Donald Grantham). Anyone could have written that text - but it was
clearly laid out and easy to use. Pretty lifeless though...thank god for
Rick Lesemann, my orchestration teacher, he was one of my favorite folks
- very open minded - very enthusiastic about electronic music and
joining acoustic music and sampling and circuit bending and all of it -
he was always trying to sample my "weird" saxophone sounds...we still
stay in contact.

Anyway, sorry for my ramblings - just trying to put a few things into
perspective...failing miserably as usual.

Cheers
PG



Phillip Greenlief
c/o Evander Music
PO Box 22158 Oakland, CA
94623-9991
www.evandermusic.com

-----Original Message-----
From: newmusic-bounces at music.mills.edu
[mailto:newmusic-bounces at music.mills.edu] On Behalf Of Matt J. Ingalls
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 5:31 PM
To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] old newmusic


kennan was a professor of mine in Texas.  and it was in Texas i was 
taught "romantic music" was a period of classical music. i think Kennan 
recently passed away... i can't remember his music but i would take a 
guess it was even more conservative than Webern!

-m



On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Polly Moller wrote:

> Kent Kennan's "Night Soliloquy" is hella romantic.
> It's for flute and piano.
> P.
>
> On 12/11/06, Jacob Lindsay <jacobmakesnoise at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Krannerg romantic?
>>
>>
>>
>> --- Damon Smith <damon at balancepointacoustics.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Dec 6, 2006, at 12:30 PM, Matt J. Ingalls wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> i've been on an
>>>> over-the-top-hyper-romantic-atonal kick lately,
>>>>   like Webern Passacaglia and Berg Lyric Suite
>>>>   can anyone recommend anything else?
>>>>   i'd really like to hear something with
>>> Ferneyhough-like
>>>> complexity, but with a bit more "romantic" feel,
>>> if that makes any
>>>> sense..
>>>
>>> I downloaded Xenakis' "Kraanerg" from Emusic
>>> recently and kind of felt
>>> that way about it.
>>>
>>> Damon
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>> Jacob Lindsay
>> http://www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=44
>> http://www.myspace.com/mryellowcake
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>>
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