[Smt-talk] FW: stretto calculation

[Slottow, Stephen]

On 11/7/12 10:34 AM, "Phillip Dineen" <murraydineen at uottawa.ca> wrote:

>Not exactly in the spirit of stretto, but the conceptual backdrop to the
>combinability of a subject with itself is sketched in Hugo Norden's The
>Technique of Canon. (Old, and very rare.)
>
>Murray Dineen
>University of Ottawa
>
>>>I have always tested (and taught) the suitability of a subject for
>>>stretto
>by trial and error, using subject and answer forms (including inversions)
>at various pitch and time intervals. Yet it seems to me that there must be
>a more dependable and rigorous method of composing and, especially,
>evaluating a subject a subject to maximize its "strettobility." One way is
>to make it sequential, but there must be others. I noticed at the SMT
>counterpoint session that Robert Gauldin's comments on the Bb minor fugue
>(WTC2, Eric Wen's talk) seemed to come out of a fairly well worked out
>stretto methodology, but it doesn't seem to be set forth in his 18th-c.
>cpt. book, where the comments on stretto are fairly sketchy.
>Schubert&Neidhofer also appear to recommend a trial and error approach,
>but have a short section about making first species reductions of subject
>and answers to facilitate the discovery process.
>
>Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Stephen Slottow
>University of North Texas
>
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