In Counterpoint

Author : Johann Fux
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Felix Salzer,Carl Schachter
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Composition (Music)
ISBN : 9780231070393

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Counterpoint in Composition by Felix Salzer,Carl Schachter Pdf

-- Stanley Persky, City University of New York

Author : Kristine Suna-Koro
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625647108

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In Counterpoint by Kristine Suna-Koro Pdf

What does postcoloniality have to do with sacramentality? How do diasporic lives and imaginaries shape the course of postcolonial sacramental theology? Neither postcolonial theorists nor sacramental theologians have hitherto sought to engage in a sustained dialogue with one another. In this trailblazing volume, Kristine Suna-Koro brings postcolonialism, diaspora discourse, and Christian sacramental theology into a mutually critical and constructive transdisciplinary conversation. Dialoguing with thinkers as diverse as Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak as well as Francis D'Sa, S.J., Martin Luther, Mayra Rivera, and John Chryssavgis, the author offers a postcolonial retrieval of sacramentality through a robust theological engagement with the postcolonial notions of hybridity, contrapuntality, planetarity, and Third Space. While exploring the methodological potential of diasporic imaginary in theology, this innovative book advances the notion of sacramental pluriverse and of Christ as its paradigmatic crescendo within the sacramental economy of creation and redemptive transformation. In the context of ecological degradation, In Counterpoint argues that it is vital for the postcolonial sacramental renewal to be rooted in ethics as a uniquely postcolonial fundamental theology.

Author : Walter Piston
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393097285

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Counterpoint by Walter Piston Pdf

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 : Philip Kennicott
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393635379

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Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning by Philip Kennicott Pdf

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?

Author : Markand Thakar
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300046383

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Counterpoint by Markand Thakar Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas Benjamin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135946630

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The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint by Thomas Benjamin Pdf

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

Author : Heinrich Schenker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Counterpoint
ISBN : 0967809908

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Counterpoint by Heinrich Schenker Pdf

Author : Henry Martin
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 0810854090

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Counterpoint by Henry Martin Pdf

"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.

Author : Alfred Mann
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486171340

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The Study of Fugue by Alfred Mann Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas Benjamin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1411252075

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The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint by Thomas Benjamin Pdf

Author : Beth Denisch
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781540012234

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Contemporary Counterpoint by Beth Denisch Pdf

(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.

Author : Peter Schubert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124019022

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Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style by Peter Schubert Pdf

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.

Author : Christoph Neidhofer,Peter Schubert
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781438493244

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Baroque Counterpoint by Christoph Neidhofer,Peter Schubert Pdf

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.

Author : Ernst Krenek
Publisher : New York : G. Schirmer
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Counterpoint
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042706791

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Studies in Counterpoint by Ernst Krenek Pdf