Study of Counterpoint

Study of Counterpoint
Author: Johann Fux
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1965
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780393002775

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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 in Composition

Counterpoint in Composition
Author: Felix Salzer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1989
Genre: Composition (Music)
ISBN: 023107039X

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-- Stanley Persky, City University of New York

Contemporary Counterpoint

Contemporary Counterpoint
Author: Beth Denisch
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2017-09-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1540012239

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(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.

A Geometry of Music

A Geometry of Music
Author: Dmitri Tymoczko
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2011-03-21
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0195336674

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In this groundbreaking book, Tymoczko uses contemporary geometry to provide a new framework for thinking about music, one that emphasizes the commonalities among styles from Medieval polyphony to contemporary jazz.

Counterpoint

Counterpoint
Author: Henry Martin
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2005
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780810854093

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"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

Counterpoint
Author: Markand Thakar
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780300046380

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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.

The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint

The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint
Author: Thomas Benjamin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2004-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1135946639

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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Counterpoint

Counterpoint
Author: Walter Piston
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 235
Release: 1947
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780393097283

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Explores the contrapuntal element in significant works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for the music student who fully understands the composition of harmony

The Study of Fugue

The Study of Fugue
Author: Alfred Mann
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2012-11-20
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486171345

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Features a historical survey of writings on the fugue from the Renaissance to the present as well as four 18th-century studies: works by J. J. Fux, F. W. Marpurg, and more. Includes introductions, commentary, and 255 musical examples.

Baroque Counterpoint

Baroque Counterpoint
Author: Christoph Neidhofer
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2024-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 143849324X

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This book teaches Baroque compositional techniques through writing and improvisation exercises and analysis of repertoire examples. It provides readers with a historical outlook by focusing largely on principles taught in treatises from the period 1680–1780. This expanded edition includes new sections with keyboard exercises that provide training in Partimento performance as it was practiced at the time, helping students master Baroque style from the inside. While the focus of the book is on fugue, it also treats chorale preludes, stylized dances, inventions, and trio sonatas. The volume is divided into two parts—basic and advanced— which could be taught in a two-semester sequence. There are various options to introduce material from Part II into Part I for a one-semester course.