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Notation, released by W.W. Norton and Co. in March, 1987, and a mainstay in the literature about the notation of music, making Heussenstamm one of the leading authorities in this field. He also wrote a two-volume textbook on tonal harmony, Handbook of Harmony, which was the required harmony textbook at CSUN for several years. It has now been published in two volumes by Hal Leonard Corp. under the title, Hal Leonard Theory and Harmony and is available at book stores everywhere. His Handbook of Tonal Counterpoint, was written in a style geared for maximum comprehension by college-level students.
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and contemporary string technique and was premiered by the
University of Southern California Symphony string section in 1990. In 2016, Heussenstamm became the benefactor of a choral music contest thru the California Choral Directors Association (then ACDA California). Heussenstamm funded the CCDA/Heussenstamm Choral Composition Competition for a total of ten years. From his generous donations, California composers are able to attend the CCDA Summer Conference at ECCO for free, have the chance to have their winning piece read by the entire conference, and earn a $ 500 bonus.
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University Composers (now called SCI) and the International Society for Contemporary Music. He was a member of NACUSA (National Association of Composers, USA), in which he served as Vice- President for many years. In 1976 and 1981 he was the recipient of Fellowship Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Eight of his compositions were recorded on LP and six of these have been committed to CD. From 1971 to 1984 he was Manager of the Coleman Chamber Music Association, the oldest continuing chamber music series in the country.
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Among his non-academic activities were fishing, pocket billiards, going to concerts, and
Scrabble. He was for 17 years the director of a Scrabble club in Glendale, California, and was chosen as Director of the Year in 1991 by the National Scrabble Association. He was an avid follower of national and
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Composing in a wide spectrum of media, George
Heussenstamm's compositions have been performed with regularity both here and abroad. He is perhaps best known for his large-scale compositions for saxophone and brass ensembles. His final large work, Moire for strings, is a magnificent work of texture
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From 1976, Heussenstamm taught at Cal State
Dominguez Hills, Cal State Los Angeles, Ambassador College, and steadily for 17 years at California State University, Northridge, prior to his retirement in June, 2000. Composer of more than 85 published works, he was the author of the book, The Norton
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Southern California area. Winner of numerous national and international composition competitions, he is a member of ASCAP, is an honorary member of the international music fraternity, Sigma Alpha Iota, and is a former member of the American
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international affairs, his primary source being BBC World
Service over XM satellite radio. Married in 1957, his wife, Mary Heussenstamm (1930–2005), was a locally well-known watercolor portraitist. Her book, Watercolor Portraits Painted on the Streets of Los Angeles, has been widely acclaimed.
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