Aaron Andrew Hunt is a specialist composer and teacher of counterpoint. His works include The Apprentice of Fugue, two books of 24 Preludes and Fugues, The Equal-Tempered Keyboard (microtonal Preludes and Fugues), two books of organ music, choral and instrumental works, and others.
He is an internationally recognized innovator in the field of microtonal music, having designed a microtonal theory, notation system (H-System), and keyboard (Tonal Plexus) based on a combination of ancient tuning theory and modern research in psychoacoustics and data visualization.
He is also known as a software developer of applications for music and publishing.
A native of the United States, he lives in Germany. Prospective students from anywhere in the world are invited to inquire about correspondence lessons through this website.
Keyboard
- Der Lehrling der Fuga (Contrapunctus 1-13b, 4 Kanons, Fuga a 5 soggetti) (2022)
- The Equal Tempered Keyboard (32 microtonal Preludes, Fugues, and Inventions) — synthesizer (1999-2021)
- 24 Präludien und Fugen, Band 2 — piano, cembalo (2020)
- 24 Präludien und Fugen, Band 1 — piano, cembalo (2003-2014)
- Fuga a3 in d-Moll — cembalo (1999)
- Suite of Mirror Canons in C (7 canons) — cembalo (1996)
- Fuga a3 in a-Moll — cembalo (1993)
- for W. David Hobbs — piano, 8 mvts. (1992)
Organ
- Sechs Choralpartiten (2019)
- Alle Menschen müssen sterben — (9 Strophen)
- Von Gott will ich nicht lassen — (11 Strophen)
- Straf mich nicht in deinem Zorn — (10 Strophen)
- Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier — (6 Strophen)
- Das alte Jahr vergangen ist — (8 Strophen)
- O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß — (23 Strophen)
- 30 Variations on an Aria by Johann Sebastian Bach (2015)
- Fantasia and Fugue on St. Theodulph (1996)
- 28 Canonic Hymns and Preludes (1995)
Choral
- English Mass — SATB (1997)
- Psalm 23 — SATB (1997)
- The Ten Commandments — SSSSS AAAA TT BBB (1995)
Choir and Instruments
- Festival Hymns for Easter — SATB + desc., 2 tp. 2 tb., timp., org. (2001)
- Salzburg (174)
- Unser Herrscher (180)
- Truro (182)
- Straf mich nicht (187)
- Vruechten (192)
- St. Albinus (194)
- Gaudemus pariter (200)
- Easter Hymn (207)
- Victory (208)
- Ellacombe (210)
- Richmond (212)
- Festival Hymns for Advent — SATB + desc., 2 tp. 2 tb., timp., org. (1998)
- Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (54)
- Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (62)
- Psalm 42 (67)
- Missa brevis — SATB, Sop. solo, 2 vln. vla. vc. b., ob. bs., org. (1993)
- Veni Sancte Spiritus — SATB, 2 vln. vla. vc. b. org. perc. (1992)
Chamber music
- Suite of Mirror Canons in C (7 double canons) — 2 vln. vla. vc. (1996)
- Suite for Violin and Marimba — 5 mvts. (1992)
- Hylas and Philonous — mba., vib., 2 mvts. (1992)
- Woodwind Quartet — flt. ob. cl. bsn., 8 mvts. (1991)
- String Quartet (1991)
- Trio en memoriam — flt. vln. pno., 2 mvts. (1991)
N.B. — Works without links are not yet published. Many other works are not listed above.
- Scores available from Zwillinge Verlag.
- Recordings available at Bandcamp, YouTube, SoundCloud and Zwillinge Verlag.
- 10 years University teaching experience in all areas of music theory & composition
- music theory, ear training, piano skills, analysis, electronic music, orchestration, composition, counterpoint
- Instrumental skills in percussion, organ, viola, guitar, and voice
- Specialties: Bach-style counterpoint, microtonal music theory
- Inventor of H-System: music theory, notation, and Tonal Plexus keyboards
- Selected Lectures
- Sibelius Academy, October 2018: microtonality in higher education
- Ball State University, March 2016: Is Music a Universal Language? The H-System
- Microtonalist Entrepreneurs International Meeting (MELM), Isik and Baskent Universities, Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey, December 2011: The H-System and H-Pi Instruments Software
- Ben Johnston and the American Just Microtonal Tradition,
Wright State University,
March 2010:
H-Chroma: quantitative tone chroma and its uses for Just Intonation composition and instrument design - University of Illinois, May 2009: The Emancipation of Pitch: Xentone
- Sibelius Academy, March 2009: The Emancipation of Pitch
- UK Microfest 3, March 2009: H-Pi Instruments Tuning Software
- UC Santa Barbara, November 2007: The Emancipation of Pitch, sponsored by CREATE, MAT, and Professor Clarence Barlow
- London Metropolitan University, March 2007: H-Pi Instruments Tuning Software
- UK Microfest 2, March 2007: For The Future of Music: Bringing Microtonality Into The Mainstream
- UK Microfest 1, October 2005 (Keynote): Megastaff: a Notation for All Possible Pitches
- Inventor and sole developer of all software for H-Pi Instruments
- Selected Example Commissions (work done on location)
- (France, 2014) custom microtonal performance automation software
- (USA, 2012) custom MIDI file parser
- (UK, 2011, 2017, 2019) custom music set theory application
- (USA, 2010) custom microtonal synthesizer
- Inventor of the following games:
- n-player Chess (1996)
- 3-Player Backgammon (1997)
- Music Cards (2003)