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Nott Diss v.2
Nott Diss v.2
INSTRUCTION IN FUGUE
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from the Well-Tempered Clavier in this volume under the ti-
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led up to it.
Fugue / /
divertimento modulation (structure generale)
ted, or, more likely, they were made at some later date,
exercise:
measure between the third and fourth beats with the remark:
enters a "V I" in the fifth measure, pointing out the ton-
when the answer does come in, both voices form an open
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Bloch.
earlier.
character."
above the final note in both the first and the second
ent barring; and at the end of the exercise are entered the
"too much V." Added (in red ink) is the related comment
below.
theme.
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have made.
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version:
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both this and what must have been the original version, are
fugue.
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328 Fugue. I--p. 7
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the top staff, adding the real answer below it. He then
Theodore Chanler.
comments:
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He begins by examining
studies.
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("Tr.II").
two of the four complete fugues that are included among the
Studies in Configuration
Well-Tempered Clavier.
his ideas.
The "Studies in Configuration" included in Fugue I
with the theme of the C major fugue from Bach's First Book.
At the top of the page, Bloch writes out an example (" (l) ")
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major fugue from Book II. For the first of these, Bloch
tion of the note c ("X ") , and becau.3e of the lack of con-
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which "only one note differs fr. Bach" (the fR marked with
In summary, he remarks:
ing remarks:
5 Bach
Here, with a quite regular Rhythm of .Jall over, we
have enough Variety of line . . a really chromatic
descending structure , with a·contrast, breaking
the line--in a logical way!--in the middle.
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Footnotes
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Suzanne Bloch, "Ernest Bloch," Musical America
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CHAPTER V
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remarks:
Etudes de FORME
Moussorgsky fr. Sans Soleil No. I No. II
Debussy fr. Pell€as D~but
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Footnotes
1
Gustav Nottebohm, Zweite Beethoveniana (Leipzig und
Winterthur: J. Bieter-Biedermann, 1887).
2
Suzanne Bloch, "Ernest Bloch Pedagogue," Ernest Bloch
Society Bulletin 9 (1976): 254.
3
rbid.
4
Ibid.
5
rbid.
6
rbid.
7
Ibid.
8
Gustav Nottebohm, Ein Skizzenbuch von Beethoven aus dem
Jahre 1803 (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, 1880).
9
For a complete listing of the contents of the sketch-
book, see Rachel W. Wade, "Beethoven's Eroica Sketchbook,"
Fontes Artis Musicae 24 (1977): 254-89.
10
Merle Armitage, ed., Schoenberg (Freeport, NY: Books
for Libraries Press, 1937).
11
Notte b o h m, Zwe1te
. Beet h oven1ana.
.
12
New York Times, 24 July 1955.
CHAPTER VI
496
497
time.
encounters.
than one might wish in the case of this, his most cele-
brated pupil. Many of them date from later years when ties
of the work of teacher and student had patently loosened,
February 10 1922
Mr Randall Tho~pson
3 Akron Street
Roxbury, ;;ass
Sincerely ycurs,
E3-b
504
for him; today even those works which earned him his early
this chapter.
g1' f te d mus1c1ans.
. . 13
upon him in these years was the realization that he and his
Bloch was never fully able to make peace with these de-
during his tenure there, Earl Kim and Leon Kirchner (both
16
presently on the faculty at Harvard). Kim stressed at
of his teaching.
by 1940 many of those who had studied with him in New York
tory and Yale, issued writings the very titles of which re-
Elwell.
that these constitute the only contact Elwell had with his
A
Mon cher maitre,
Quel grand plaisir d'entendre votre Sinfonia
Breve! And what a magnificent work--not only in its
conciseness but in the breadth and depth of its im-
plications! This is indeed an inspiring example for
us, your former students, who have long believed in
you and looked to you for guidance. I, for one, was
profoundly impressed and extremely happy over your
triumph. By this I mean not only the performance
and the reception here . . . . But by triumph I mean
above all the creative triumph of penetrating new
stratas of thought and feeling, of reaching out and
coming to grips with new problems, and best of all,
finding their solution not by renouncing the methods
and ideals of the past but by extending them to meet
and overcome the difficulties of the present. It
was this sense of continuity and natural evolution
in your new work that gave me such a strong feeling
of orientation and hope . .
My 25 years in Cleveland has given me what one
might call "a sense of history," and I suspect I am
now one of the very few persons here who realize
that Cleveland music really began with Ernest
Bloch. To you, Cleveland may seem far in the past
and not important. But where one has sown seeds one
can expect fruit. Often I have felt that the soil
here is not very fertile. In fact as far as I per-
sonally am concerned, there have been long periods
of complete sterility, where I have felt defeated by
the environment. But as Nadia Boulanger once said,
"everybody belongs somewhere," and now I suppose I
belong here and must be content with the fact that
my work is not much recognized elsewhere.
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of a larger design.
Dear Ernest,
The more I contemplate the task of writing a
book about you, the more I begin to feel my
inadequacies. As I read the many articles on you
and your music, I am a little dismayed, because
others seem to ~eve said much better than I can what
should be said.
of departure is formulated:
Preface
gives is equivocal:
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proved reciprocal.
in San Francisco and the analyses dating from the 1940s and
had pointed out that, with the text of his famous Gradus ad
sic of both the distant and the recent past are examined in
learning.
California in 1947:
Footnotes
1
willard Kent Hall, "Quincy Porter: His Life and
Contribution as a Composer and Educator (1897-1966) ,"
(D.M.A. Thesis, University of Missouri, 1970), p. 4.
2
see Roger Session to Ernest Bloch, 3 March 1921, Bloch
Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. In the
letter, Sessions recommends Porter to Bloch as a prospec-
tive student.
3
For discussion Sessions's studies with Bloch, see Edward
T. Cone, "Conversation with Roger Sessions," in Perspec-
tives on American Composers, ed. Benjamin Boretz and Edward
T. Cone (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1971); Andrea
Olmstead, Roger Sessions and His Music (Ann Arbor, MI: UMI
Research Press, 1985).
4
Cone, "Conversation with Roger Sessions," p. 95.
5
Roger Sessions to Ernest Bloch, 3 March 1921, Bloch
Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
6
Interview with Suzanne Bloch, June 1985.
7
Interview with Randall Thompson, October 1983.
8 see the essays included in Randall Thompson: A Choral
Legacy, ed. Alfred Mann (Boston: E.C. Schirmer Music
Company, 1983), particularly Randall Thompson, "Writing for
the Amateur Chorus," Idem, "On Contrapuntal Technique", and
James Haar, "Randall Thompson and the Music of the Past."
9
Ernest Bloch to Randall Thompson, 10 February 1922.
Personal Files of Randall Thompson.
10 rnterview with Randall Thompson, October 1983.
11
The Bloch Collection, Library of Congress, Washington,
D.C.
12
Aaron Copland, "America's Young Men of Promise," Modern
Music 3 (1926): 13.
13
See Ernest Bloch to Herbert Elwell, undated, Bloch
Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
14
Ernst Bacon, personal letter, 17 February 1985.
15
Idem, personal letter, 6 April 1985.
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16
Interview with Earl Kim, April 1985; interview with
Leon Kirchner, June 1985.
17
Interview with David Diamond, July 1985.
18
Roger Sessions, Harmonic Practice (New York: Harcourt,
Brace, and Company, 1951), p. xiii.
19
Roger Sessions, "The Composer in the University," in
Roger Sessions on Music, ed. Edward T. Cone (Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979), p. 202.
20
Idem, "What Can Be Taught?," in Roger Sessions on
Music, p. 225.
21 b'd
I 1 . , p. 223 .
22
Olmstead, Roger Sessions and His Music, p. 94.
23
Quincy Porter, A study of Sixteenth-Century Counter-
point Based on the Works of Orlando di Lasso (Boston:
Loomis & Co., 1940); A Study of Fugue Writing Based on
Bach's Well-Tempered Clavichord (Boston: Loomis & Co.,
1951); see also "The Functions of a Progressive Department
of Theory," The Musician 32 (October 1927): 14.
24
see Hall, "Quincy Porter: His Life and Contribution";
Garry E. Clarke, "Quincy Porter: Composer-Educator," in
Essays on American Music (Westport, CN: Greenwood Press,
Inc., 1977)
25
Herbert Elwell to Ernest Bloch, undated draft, Sibley
Library, Rochester, NY.
26
Ernest Bloch to Herbert Elwell, 10 December 1953,
Sibley Music Library, Rochester, NY.
27
Elwell to Bloch, undated draft, Sibley Music Library,
Rochester, NY.
28
Idem, undated draft, Sibley Music Library Rochester,
NY.
29
Idem, draft 16 July 1954, Sibley Music Library,
Rochester, NY.
30
Idem, undated draft, Sibley Music Library Rochester,
NY.
31
Interview with Suzanne Bloch, June 1985.
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32
Herbert Elwell, "Preface," Elwell Collection, Sibley
Music Library, Rochester, NY.
33
rbid.
34
Johann Joseph Fux, The Study of Counterpoint, trans.
Alfred Mann (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1971),
p. 18.
35
Suzanne Bloch, "Ernest Bloch Pedagogue," Ernest Bloch
Society Bulletin 9 (1976): 253.
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APPENDIX
Inventory of the Collection
Applied Harmony
Counterpoint 2 Parts
Strict III Part-counterpoint
{including "Studies in Configuration")
Books I - VII, IX {studies in two-part counterpoint)
Books I - II {studies in three-part counterpoint)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
I. Biography
III. Criticism
Bialas, Gunther. "Ist Komponieren Lehrbar?" Musica 35
(1981): 327-28.
Bloch, Ernest. "Ernest Bloch Surveys the Problem of Music
Education." Musical America 28 (May 1921): 3, 40.
IV.· Pedagogy
V. Bibliography
Edmunds, John., and Boelzner, Gordon. Some
Twentieth-Century Composers: A Selective Bibliography.
2 vols. New York: New York Public Library, 1959-60.
Griffel, M. "Bibliography of Writings on Ernest Bloch."
Current Musicolc~ 6 (1968): 142-46.