After battling cancer for two years, respected musicologist, theorist and
all around wonderful person, Douglass Green died September 1st.

I had the great pleasure of taking three classes from Dr.  Green during my
graduate work at the University of Texas.  They were easily the three best
classes of my college life.  One of the wonderful things about Dr. Green
was he always connected theory to real music.  Theory was never just an
excercise for him.

Dr. Green was incredibly open to his students.  He often invited us into
his home.  He was always happy to talk with his students about anything.
Many is the time we stood around talking with him after class.  I'm sure
we sometimes made him late for appointments.

A memorial service will be held Saturday September 11 at St. Marks
Episcopal Church at 3 PM in Austin, Texas.

The University of Texas School of Music asks that Memorial contributions
may be sent c/o The Douglass Green Memorial Fund, The School of Music,
Michael Tusa, Acting Chair, UT Austin, Austin 78713.

Included below is a posting to another list from Mark DeVoto.

   Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 23:41:04 -0400 (EDT)
   From: Mark DeVoto <[log in to unmask]>
   Subject: Here's what I sent to ams-l and mlist

   Douglass Green's death shatters me.  All of us who knew of his
   desperate illness two years ago were hopeful against hope that his
   strong rebound would last forever.  Our profession has lost not only
   a great musicologist, theorist and all-around musician, but one of
   the finest people that ever walked this earth.  He was a first-rate
   expert on the music of Berg and Debussy; an inspired writer on music;
   a dedicated organist and choirmaster; a beloved teacher to a whole
   generation at both Eastman and Texas.  His discovery and identification,
   in 1976, of the almost completely concealed Baudelaire-George text
   in the sketches of Berg's _Lyric Suite_ was the most important nexus
   in Berg studies in decades, the seminal revelation that made the
   later discovery of the "secret program" possible, as George Perle
   acknowledges in his new edition of _Lyrische Suite:  Die geheime
   Gesangsstimme_ (Universal Edition 70017).  I and hundreds of others
   have been using Doug's _Form in Tonal Music_, the best written book
   of its kind, now for 34 years.

   Doug was my personal guide when I first visited Vienna in 1980 for
   the Berg Symposion.  We spent hours, days together, exploring and
   enjoying the city, the libraries, the museums, the wine cellars and
   restaurants that he knew so well.  It was through Doug that I got
   to know Erich Alban Berg and his family.  Doug and I met for other
   notable occasions, including the 1979 AMS Berg symposium at the
   rooftop gardens of the Biltmore, and the week-long international
   saturnalia at the University of Chicago in 1985.  When I last talked
   to him he was recovering his strength and velocity following dangerous
   surgery, and was hard at work on Debussy's _Khamma_.  He was an
   unforgettable colleague and friend.

   Mark DeVoto
   Music Department, Tufts University
   http://www.tufts.edu/~mdevoto

Michael Bell
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