The craft of tonal counterpoint /

The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint is an introductory text to the analysis and composition of tonal counterpoint. Using examples from the music of J.S. Bach - the master of this style - the author takes students through a series of carefully graded, cumulative exercises that stress both analysis and wr...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Benjamin, Thomas
Autres auteurs: Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: New York : Routledge, 2003.
Édition:2nd ed.
Accès en ligne:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=106066
Table des matières:
  • Line and other elements of style
  • Nonimitative two-voice writing
  • Chromaticism in two voices
  • Composition of binary dance forms
  • Double (invertible) counterpoint
  • Imitation, canon
  • The two-voice invention
  • Three-voice counterpoint I : texture, rhythm, harmony
  • Three-voice counterpoint II : chromaticism, triple counterpoint, canon
  • Fugue I
  • Fugue II
  • Four-voice counterpoint
  • Variation forms
  • Cantus firmus procedure : the chorale prelude.