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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Benjamin, Thomas
Other Authors: Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2003.
Subjects:
Bach, Johann Sebastian, > 1685-1750 > Criticism and interpretation.
Counterpoint > Textbooks.
Musical analysis > Music collections.
Textbooks.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0203494113
9780203494110
9786610107780
6610107785
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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