Counterpoint: A Species Approach Based on Schenker's CounterpointScarecrow Press, 2005 - 127 pàgines Counterpoint is a textbook for use as a stand-alone text in a course on species counterpoint or as a supplementary text for standard college-level courses in music theory. It is based on Heinrich Schenker's (1868-1935) two-volume study of counterpoint. It is intended to help all students of theory or composition to improve their musicianship by examining the voice-leading that underlies Western tonal music. The book 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. For the sake of brevity, musical examples are available on the Scarecrow Press website (www.scarecrowpress.com), rather than within the text itself. Everyone from beginning music theory students to composers to graduate composition students will greatly benefit from the methods presented here. 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. |
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Exercise Writing and the Cantus Firmus | 3 |
TwoPart First Species Note Against Note | 9 |
TwoPart Second Species Two Notes Against One | 17 |
TwoPart Third Species Four Notes Against One | 23 |
TwoPart Fourth Species Syncopation | 29 |
TwoPart Fifth Species Mixed Counterpoint | 36 |
ThreePart Counterpoint | 41 |
ThreePart First Species | 43 |
Free Composition | 85 |
Modulation Cadences to New Key Centers | 87 |
TwoPart Free Counterpoint to the First Cadence | 91 |
More on Imitation First Piece | 95 |
Invertible Counterpoint Octave | 98 |
More on Invertible Counterpoint | 101 |
Appendices | 105 |
FourPart First Species | 107 |
ThreePart Second Species | 52 |
Combined Counterpoint of the Second Species | 57 |
ThreePart Third Species | 61 |
Combined Counterpoints of the Second and Third Species | 64 |
ThreePart Fourth Species | 67 |
ThreePart Mixed Species | 71 |
Combined Species Incorporating Syncopation | 75 |
Combined Species with the Mixed Species Imitation | 80 |
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Absolutes alto Avoid bass beginning cadence cambiata cantus firmus chapter clef complete triads compound intervals contrapuntal create cross relations D-minor CF D4 diatonic dissonant intervals dissonant suspension dissonant syncope double double whole note downbeat eighth notes example final bar first-species following downbeat four-part fourth quarter fourth species free composition Fux D-minor CF half note harmony imitation imperfect interval number invertible counterpoint Kyrie leading tone leap lower ctpt major scales middle voice minor mode mixed species motion to perfect note values occur octave passing tone penultimate bar perfect consonances perfect fifth permissible Preferences and Hints proceed quarter notes resolution resolve rules of melodic scale degrees scale steps second species second-species lines similar motion sixth skip sonorities soprano species counterpoint species exercises standard voice-leading prohibitions stepwise motion stretto tenor tenth third quarter third species third-species lines tonal transposed triangles tritone two-part writing two-voice framework upbeat upper ctpt whole notes