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A Practical Approach to Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint

 

Robert Gauldin

 

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.

A Practical Approach to Sixteenth-Century Counterpoint

 

$42.95 list, 335 pages

10-digit ISBN: 0-88133-853-2

13-digit ISBN: 978-0-88133-853-9

© 1988

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Table of Contents

 

1. Introduction

2. Melody

3. General Characteristics of Counterpoint; Pedagogical Foundations

4. Two-Voice Note-Against-Note Counterpoint

5. Simple Diminution; 2:1 Elaboration of the Counterpointing Voice

6. Further Rhythmic Diminution; Two-Voice Chorale Preludes

7. Free Counterpoint; Simple Two-Reprise Form

8. Further Diminution Techniques in Two-Voice Texture

9. Real Imitation and Double Counterpoint

10. The Two-Part Canon and Invention

11. Introduction to Three-Voice Texture; Note-Against-Note and Simple Diminution

12. Further Rhythmic Diminution; Three-Voice Chorale Preludes

13. Chromaticism

14. Free Counterpoint in Three Voices; Extended Two-Reprise Forms

15. Tonal Imitation; Further Studies in Invertible Counterpoint

16. Additional Contrapuntal Devices; Further Study of Canon

17. The Three-Voice Fugue

18. Introduction to Four-Voice Texture; Further Study in Chorale Prelude

19. Variations

20. Further Studies in Fugue

21. Choral Writing

22. The Pedagogical Foundations of Counterpoint in the Classical Period

23. Examples of Counterpoint in the Classical Period

Appendix: Characteristics of Dance Movements

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