A Practical Approach To Eighteenth Century Counterpoint

Author : Robert Gauldin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015064216404

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A Practical Approach to Eighteenth-century Counterpoint by Robert Gauldin Pdf

Practical work in writing counterpoint! This volume emphasizes developing analytical and writing skills in the contrapuntal technique of the eighteenth century. The orientation is strongly stylistic, dealing mainly with the polyphony of the late Baroque period. Three aspects are stressed throughout: practical work in writing counterpoint, utilizing various textures, devices, and genre of the period; historical background, to establish the origins of different forms and justify the pedagogical method employed here; analysis of selections from music literature, often in voice-leading reductions. After an opening chapter that reviews some general features of the late Baroque period, there is a brief survey of melodic characteristics, and a study of procedures associated with two, three, and four voices.

Author : Robert Gauldin
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781478608769

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A Practical Approach to 18th Century Counterpoint by Robert Gauldin Pdf

Practical work in writing counterpoint! This volume emphasizes developing analytical and writing skills in the contrapuntal technique of the eighteenth century. The orientation is strongly stylistic, dealing mainly with the polyphony of the late Baroque period. Three aspects are stressed throughout: practical work in writing counterpoint, utilizing various textures, devices, and genre of the period; historical background, to establish the origins of different forms and justify the pedagogical method employed here; analysis of selections from music literature, often in voice-leading reductions. After an opening chapter that reviews some general features of the late Baroque period, there is a brief survey of melodic characteristics, and a study of procedures associated with two, three, and four voices.

Author : Robert Gauldin
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781478608752

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A Practical Approach to 16th Century Counterpoint by Robert Gauldin Pdf

Practical work in writing counterpoint! Gauldin emphasizes the acquisition of writing skills in the contrapuntal discipline and the simulation of sixteenth-century sacred polyphonic idioms in this volume. The author follows a didactic method of a non-species or direct approach. While no previous contrapuntal training is necessary to absorb this material, some acquaintance with Baroque polyphonic terminology proves helpful. Key features include: musical examples illustrating specific devices are taken from musical literature or composed by the author; demonstrates the possibility of employing a single given pitch series within the contexts of different compositional techniques; includes a collection of complete or excerpted movements drawn from musical literature at the conclusion of each major textual division; emphasizes Palestrina and the Counter-Reformation sacred style; discusses various compositional procedures of the late Renaissance, including paraphrase, cantus firmus, familiar style, parody, polychoral technique, and chromaticism.

Author : Robert Gauldin
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015009689517

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A Practical Approach to Sixteenth-century Counterpoint by Robert Gauldin Pdf

The author emphasizes acquisition of writing skills in the contrapuntal discipline and the simulation of sixteenth century sacred polyphonic idioms in this volume. The author follows a didactic method of a "non species or direct" approach. While no previous contrapuntal training is necessary to absorb this material, some acquaintance with Baroque polyphonic terminology proves helpful. Key features include: musical examples illustrating specific devices taken from musical literature or composed by the author; demonstration of the possibility of employing a single given pitch series within the contexts of different compositional techniques; a collection of complete or excerpted movements drawn from musical literature at the conclusion of each major textual division; emphasis of Palestrina and the Counter Reformation sacred style; discussion of various compositional procedures of the late Renaissance, including paraphrase, cantus firmus, familiar style, parody, polychoral technique, and chromaticism.

Author : Neale B. Mason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Counterpoint
ISBN : OCLC:180915

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Essentials of Eighteenth-century Counterpoint by Neale B. Mason Pdf

Author : Job IJzerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190695002

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Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento by Job IJzerman Pdf

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.

Author : Dmitri Tymoczko
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780195336672

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A Geometry of Music by Dmitri Tymoczko Pdf

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.

Author : Johann Fux
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1981-01-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780393002775

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Study of Counterpoint by Johann Fux Pdf

The essence of the most celebrated book on counterpoint, Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum. 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 greatest composers. J.S. Bach held it in high esteem, Leopold Mozart trained his famous son from its pages, Haydn worked out every lesson with meticulous care, and Beethoven condensed it into an abstract for ready reference. An impressive list of nineteenth-century composers subscribed to its second edition, and in more recent times Paul Hindemith said, "Perhaps the craft of composition would really have fallen into decline if Fux's Gradus had not set up a standard." Originally written in Latin, Steps to Parnassus was translated into the principal European languages, but the only English version was a free paraphrase published in 1886. The present translation by Alfred Mann is therefore the first faithful rendering in English from the original Latin and presents the essence of Fux's teachings. For its distinction as a classic and its undiminished usefulness for the modern student it is a privilege to offer this fine translation in the Norton Library.

Author : Massimiliano Guido
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317048930

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Studies in Historical Improvisation by Massimiliano Guido Pdf

In recent years, scholars and musicians have become increasingly interested in the revival of musical improvisation as it was known in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. This historically informed practice is now supplanting the late Romantic view of improvised music as a rhapsodic endeavour—a musical blossoming out of the capricious genius of the player—that dominated throughout the twentieth century. In the Renaissance and Baroque eras, composing in the mind (alla mente) had an important didactic function. For several categories of musicians, the teaching of counterpoint happened almost entirely through practice on their own instruments. This volume offers the first systematic exploration of the close relationship among improvisation, music theory, and practical musicianship from late Renaissance into the Baroque era. It is not a historical survey per se, but rather aims to re-establish the importance of such a combination as a pedagogical tool for a better understanding of the musical idioms of these periods. The authors are concerned with the transferral of historical practices to the modern classroom, discussing new ways of revitalising the study and appreciation of early music. The relevance and utility of such an improvisation-based approach also changes our understanding of the balance between theoretical and practical sources in the primary literature, as well as the concept of music theory itself. Alongside a word-centred theoretical tradition, in which rules are described in verbiage and enriched by musical examples, we are rediscovering the importance of a music-centred tradition, especially in Spain and Italy, where the music stands alone and the learner must distil the rules by learning and playing the music. Throughout its various sections, the volume explores the path of improvisation from theory to practice and back again.

Author : Giorgio Sanguinetti
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195394207

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The Art of Partimento by Giorgio Sanguinetti Pdf

At the height of the Enlightenment, four conservatories in Naples stood at the center of European composition. Maestros taught their students to compose with unprecedented swiftness and elegance using the partimento. In The Art of Partimento, performer and historian Giorgio Sanguinetti provides students and scholars of composition and music theory an historical chronicle as well as a practical guide, offering them the opportunity not only to understand the life of this fascinating tradition, but to participate in it as well.

Author : Kent Wheeler Kennan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Counterpoint
ISBN : OCLC:1089557470

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Counterpoint by Kent Wheeler Kennan Pdf

Author : Neale B. Mason
Publisher : Brown & Benchmark
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042331558

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Essentials of Eighteenth-century Counterpoint by Neale B. Mason Pdf

Author : Kent Kennan
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042231840

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Counterpoint by Kent Kennan Pdf

Designed for courses in Music," this established text introduces the contrapuntal style of 17th and 18th century music through analysis and writing. While a limited understanding of contrapuntal elements may be gained through analysis alone, these elements are grasped in a more intimate way through the actual writing of contrapuntal examples. Also, by linking the study of counterpoint to music of a specific period, the text provides a clear model for students to emulate and a definite basis for the criticism of student work. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Robert Gauldin
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 895 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393976661

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Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music by Robert Gauldin Pdf

Conceptually sophisticated and exceptionally musical, Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music provides a thorough treatment of harmony and voice-leading principles in tonal music.

Author : Teresa Davidian
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442234604

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Tonal Counterpoint for the 21st-Century Musician by Teresa Davidian Pdf

Students today have grown up in the age of digital technology. As a result, they process information in radically different ways than preceding generations. They like their information fast and consider visual images as important as textual content. In Tonal Counterpoint for the 21st-Century Musician, Teresa Davidian finally provides students a textbook that is quick, direct, and visual—a direct reflection of the age in which they live. This book is easy to understand, comprehensive, and distinctly modern in its approach to the study of counterpoint. Written in a style that is clear, simple, and informal writing style, Davidian artfully mixes the history of counterpoint with an outline of its structure, placing musical examples from J. S. Bach side by side with those from The Beatles to illustrate the universality and currency of counterpoint in music analysis and composition. Designed as a single-semester introduction, Tonal Counterpoint brings the study of counterpoint into the present by: Making ample use of diagrams and flow charts Including helpful step-by-step prompt sheets for analyzing inventions and fugues Placing just as much emphasis on the composition as on the analysis of counterpoint Offering a broad array of musical examples, including the work of women composers, American songwriters, current students, and pop music composers Throughout, Davidian explains how the techniques of 18th-century contrapoint still readily apply to how music is composed today. Tonal Counterpoint for the 21st-Century Musician is ideal for students in the fields of music theory, composition, music history, and performance.