Forte (fencing) Capo Ferro defined the forte as the blade from the hilt to the middle. From the middle to the top is known as the debole. For the debole only, the edges are labeled true and false, the former being the lower edge when the sword is held horizontally. The flats of the sword are not named. By contrast, fencing master Salvator Fabris divides the debole into two sections, the third and fourth part (the first and second are divisions of the forte). The third part, midway to three quarters of the way to the tip, is ineffective but not entirely
Allen Forte five installments of "", between 2009 and 2013. It was edited by Forte's former student David Carson Berry (FA72) and was titled "A Music-Theoretical Matrix: Essays in Honor of Allen Forte" (a title derived from Forte's 1961 monograph, "A Compositional Matrix"). It included twenty-two articles by Forte's former doctoral advisees, and three special features: a previously unpublished article by Forte, on Gershwin songs; a collection of tributes and reminiscences from forty-two of his former advisees; and an annotated register of his publications and advisees. Forte was married to the French-born pianist Madeleine (Hsu) Forte, emerita professor of piano at Boise