The Art of Counterpoint
Author: Homer Albert Norris
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 104
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Author: Homer Albert Norris
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gioseffo Zarlino
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780393008333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKZarlino's Le Istitutioni harmoniche, published in 1558, is one of the most influential music treatises of all time. To his contemporaries it revealed the secrets of composition he had learned from Adrian Willaert, who brought to Italy the polyphonic art of the Netherlands. To the modern scholar Zarlino's treatise illumines the compositional technique of the golden age of vocal polyphony. The essence of this art is contained in Part III, "The Art of Counterpoint," which is here translated into English for the first time.
Author: Charles Herbert Kitson
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R. Larry Todd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1983-04-21
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780521246552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Johann Fux
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780393002775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: C. H. Kitson
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-11-15
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780331120561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Art of Counterpoint: And Its Application as a Decorative Principle The appearance of a new book on Counterpoint, when there are already in existence numerous treatises on the subject, may seem to demand some justification. All books on Counterpoint must of necessity bear a certain resemblance to each other. Any difference must be sought in the point of View, in the relative prominence given to various phases of the subject, and in the treatment of detail, rather than in the statement of general truths or in novelty of arrangement. The history and the broad outlines of Counterpoint offer little scope for originality, and in these matters the present work will be found not unlike its predecessors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Philip Kennicott
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2020-02-18
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0393635376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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: Charles Herbert Kitson
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gioseffo Zarlino
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 294
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Markand Thakar
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780300046380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCounterpoint 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.