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Study of Counterpoint

Author : Johann Fux
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393002775
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Study of Counterpoint written by Johann Fux and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1965 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Walter Piston
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393097283
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Counterpoint written by Walter Piston and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1947 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the contrapuntal element in significant works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for the music student who fully understands the composition of harmony

Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning

Author : Philip Kennicott
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393635376
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning by : Philip Kennicott

Download or read book Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning written by Philip Kennicott and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize–winning critic’s “lyrical and haunting” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker) reflection on the meaning and emotional impact of a Bach masterwork. As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It was the only music that didn’t seem trivial or irrelevant, and it enabled him to both experience her death and remove himself from it. For him, Bach’s music held the elements of both joy and despair, life and its inevitable end. He spent the next five years trying to learn one of the composer’s greatest keyboard masterpieces, the Goldberg Variations. In Counterpoint, he recounts his efforts to rise to the challenge, and to fight through his grief by coming to terms with his memories of a difficult, complicated childhood. He describes the joys of mastering some of the piano pieces, the frustrations that plague his understanding of others, the technical challenges they pose, and the surpassing beauty of the melodies, harmonies, and counterpoint that distinguish them. While exploring Bach’s compositions he sketches a cultural history of playing the piano in the twentieth century. And he raises two questions that become increasingly interrelated, not unlike a contrapuntal passage in one of the variations itself: What does it mean to know a piece of music? What does it mean to know another human being?

Contemporary Counterpoint

Author : Beth Denisch
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1540012239
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Counterpoint written by Beth Denisch and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (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 in Composition

Author : Felix Salzer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023107039X
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Counterpoint in Composition written by Felix Salzer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Stanley Persky, City University of New York

Baroque Counterpoint

Author : Christoph Neidhofer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143849324X
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Baroque Counterpoint written by Christoph Neidhofer and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style

Author : Peter Schubert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style written by Peter Schubert and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Counterpoint

Author : Markand Thakar
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300046380
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Counterpoint written by Markand Thakar and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Rachel Haimowitz
Publisher : Riptide Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1937551199
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Counterpoint written by Rachel Haimowitz and published by Riptide Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the twilight of mankind. Depleted by generations of war with a race of dark beasts, humanity stands on the brink of extinction. The outlands are soaked with the blood of the fallen. The midlands are rotting with decadence and despair. Elfkind, estranged by past crimes, watches and waits for nature to run its course. And then the two collide. Ayden's life has long been guided by two emotions: love for his sister, and hatred of all things human. When he's captured in battle, he is enslaved in the service of a human prince, Freyrik Farr. Freyrik's always known elves to be beautiful and dangerous, but never has one affected him as deeply as Ayden. Teetering on a dagger's edge between duty and high treason, Freyrik discovers that some choices can change a life, and some an entire world. Between prejudice, politics, pride, and survival, Ayden and Freyrik must carve a new path, no matter how daunting. For nothing less than the fate of both their peoples rests on the power of their perseverance — and their love.

Point Counter Point

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Point Counter Point written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint

Author : David Yearsley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521803465
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint written by David Yearsley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bach's Germany musical counterpoint was an art involving much more than the sophisticated use of advanced compositional techniques. A range of theological, cultural, social and political meanings attached themselves to the use of complex procedures such as canon and double counterpoint. This book explores the significance of Bach's counterpoint in a range of interrelated contexts: its use as a means of reflecting on death; its parallels to alchemy; its vexed status in the galant music culture of the first half of the eighteenth century; its value as a representation of political power; and its central importance in the creation of Bach's image in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Touching on a wide array of contemporary literary, philosophical, critical, and musical texts, the book includes new readings of many of Bach's late works in order to re-evaluate the status and meaning of counterpoint in Bach's work and legacy.

The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint

Author : Thomas Benjamin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135946639
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint written by Thomas Benjamin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Study of Fugue

Author : Alfred Mann
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486171345
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Study of Fugue written by Alfred Mann and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Principles and Practice of Modal Counterpoint

Author : Douglass Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136935096
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book The Principles and Practice of Modal Counterpoint written by Douglass Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering modal music from Gregorian chant through the seventeenth-century, The Principles and Practice of Modal Counterpoint is a comprehensive textbook combining stylistic composition, theory and analysis, music history, and performance. By supplementing a modified species approach with a wealth of complete musical examples and historical information, this textbook thoroughly joins principle with practice, providing a truly immersive experience in the study of modal counterpoint and familiarizing students with modal repertoire.

Slave Counterpoint

Author : Philip D. Morgan
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807838535
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Slave Counterpoint written by Philip D. Morgan and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and the Lowcountry, with its hub in South Carolina. Here, Philip Morgan compares and contrasts African American life in these two regional black cultures, exploring the differences as well as the similarities. The result is a detailed and comprehensive view of slave life in the colonial American South. Morgan explores the role of land and labor in shaping culture, the everyday contacts of masters and slaves that defined the possibilities and limitations of cultural exchange, and finally the interior lives of blacks--their social relations, their family and kin ties, and the major symbolic dimensions of life: language, play, and religion. He provides a balanced appreciation for the oppressiveness of bondage and for the ability of slaves to shape their lives, showing that, whatever the constraints, slaves contributed to the making of their history. Victims of a brutal, dehumanizing system, slaves nevertheless strove to create order in their lives, to preserve their humanity, to achieve dignity, and to sustain dreams of a better future.

Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento

Author : Job IJzerman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190695005
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento written by Job IJzerman and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new method of music theory education for undergraduate music students, Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento is grounded in schema theory and partimento, and takes an integrated, hands-on approach to the teaching of harmony and counterpoint in today's classrooms and studios. A textbook in three parts, the package includes: - the hardcopy text, providing essential stylistic and technical information and repertoire discussion; - an online workbook with a full range of exercises, including partimenti by Fenaroli, Sala, and others, along with arrangements of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century compositions; - an online instructor's manual providing additional information and realizations of all exercises. Linking theoretical knowledge with aural perception and aesthetic experience, the exercises encompass various activities, such as singing, playing, improvising, and notation, which challenge and develop the student's harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic imagination. Covering the common-practice period (Corelli to Brahms), Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento is a core component of practice-oriented training of musicianship skills, in conjunction with solfeggio, analysis, and modal or tonal counterpoint.

Mendelssohn's Musical Education

Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521246552
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Mendelssohn's Musical Education written by R. Larry Todd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-04-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study and critical edition of Mendelssohn's composition exercise book from his early period of study with Carl Friedrich Zelter (1819-1821). The workbook illustrates in considerable detail the young musician's struggle to master the rules of part writing and principles of counterpoint. Much of Zelter's systematic teaching method is grounded in the eighteenth-century theoretical tradition of Berlin; not surprisingly, the exercises bear the stamp of the music of J. S. Bach, which heavily influenced such Berlin musicians as C. P. E. Bach, C. F. C. Fasch, Marpurg, Kirnberger, Zelter and Mendelssohn. There is little doubt that the historicist attitude of the mature Mendelssohn - as seen in his efforts to revive the works of Bach and Handel and in his propensity toward strict contrapuntal techniques in his own music - was conditioned by these studies with Zelter. The publication of the workbook sheds new light on the early development of one ofthe most important nineteenth-century composers who, though affected by the new wave of romanticism that swept over Europe, never lost his respect for the past. No less important, the manuscript includes several previously unpublished pieces which rank among Mendelssohn's earliest compositions.