Counterpoint in Composition
Author: Felix Salzer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 023107039X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →-- Stanley Persky, City University of New York
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Study of Counterpoint
Author: Johann Fux
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780393002775
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The most celebrated book on counterpoint is Fux's great theoretical work GRADUS AD PARNASSUM. Since its appearance in 1725, it has been used by and has directly influenced the work of many of the great composers, including J.S. Bach, Haydn, and Beethoven. Originally written in Latin, this work has been translated in to the principal European languages. The present translation by Alfred Mann is the first faithful rendering in English, presenting the essence of Fux's teachings.
Counterpoint, Composition and Musica Ficta
Author: Margaret Bent
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1136534911
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Musica ficta is the practice of sharpening or flattening certain notes to avoid awkward intervals in medieval and Renaissance music. This collection gathers Margaret Bent's influential writings on this controversial subject from the past 30 years, along with an extensive author's introduction discussing the current state of scholarship and responding to critics. Also includes 25 musical examples.
Counterpoint
Author: Henry Martin
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780810854093
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Counterpoint proceeds by developing species counterpoint in the tradition of Johann Joseph Fux and his famous Gradus ad Parnassum (1725), but with attention to Schenker's more in-depth study. Everyone from beginning music theory students to composers to graduate composition students will benefit from the methods introduced here. As emphasized in the preface, readers are presented with "exercises for composition." Rather than actually teaching a student to compose, working through these exercises will improve musicianship as it applies to both composition and understanding music theory."--BOOK JACKET.
Counterpoint
Author: Markand Thakar
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780300046380
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Counterpoint manuals have long been central to the music education of composers, historians, and theorists. In this book a conductor uses counterpoint exercises to aid musicians in becoming sensitive to the fundamental ingredients of good music making.
Contemporary Counterpoint
Author: Beth Denisch
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2017-09-01
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1540012239
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →(Berklee Guide). Use counterpoint to make your music more engaging and creative. Counterpoint the relationship between musical voices is among the core principles for writing music, and it has been central to the study of composition for many centuries. Whether you are a composer, arranger, film composer, orchestrator, music director, bandleader, or improvising musician, this book will help hone your craft, gain control, and lead you to new creative possibilities. You will learn "tricks of the trade" from the masters and apply these skills to contemporary styles. Online audio examples illustrate the principles being discussed, and many recommended listening lists point you to additional examples of how these principles have been used in music over the past thousand years.
Counterpoint
Author: Walter Piston
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Published: 1947
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780393097283
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the contrapuntal element in significant works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for the music student who fully understands the composition of harmony
Polyphonic Composition
The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint
Author: Thomas Benjamin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-03
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 1135946639
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style
Author: Peter Schubert
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The only species counterpoint text that draws directly on Renaissance treatises, Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style, Second Edition, provides a conceptual framework to guide students through composition and analysis as it teaches them general structural principles. It distinguishes between technical requirements ("hard" rules) and stylistic guidelines ("soft" rules), and includes coordinated exercises that allow students to develop their skills systematically. The second edition integrates improvisation activities and new repertoire examples into many chapters; revises the chapter on three-part writing (Chapter 14) so that it pays more attention to rules and strategies; reworks the chapters on cadences (Chapter 10) and on writing two parts in mixed values (Chapter 11) to make them more accessible to students; incorporates clarified instructions throughout; and includes a summary of rules.
