Author: Felix SalzerPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023107039X
Category : Composition (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
-- Stanley Persky, City University of New York
Study of Counterpoint
Author: Johann FuxPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393002775
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
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 BentPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136534911
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
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.
Author: Thomas BenjaminContemporary Counterpoint
Author: Beth DenischPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1540012239
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
(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: Markand ThakarPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300046380
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
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.
Counterpoint
Author: Walter PistonPublisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393097283
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Explores the contrapuntal element in significant works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for the music student who fully understands the composition of harmony
Author: Owen SwindaleCounterpoint
Author: Henry MartinPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810854093
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
"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.
Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style
Author: Peter SchubertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
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.
