A Practical Approach to Sixteenth-Century Counterpoint
A Practical Approach to Sixteenth-Century Counterpoint
Waveland Pr Inc | March 1995 | ISBN-10: 0881338524 | 312 pages | PDF | 7.2 MB
Waveland Pr Inc | March 1995 | ISBN-10: 0881338524 | 312 pages | PDF | 7.2 MB
Practical work in writing counterpoint! Robert Gauldin emphasizes the acquisition of writing skills in the contrapuntal discipline and the simulation of sixteenth-century sacred polyphonic idioms in this volume. The author follows a didactic method of a non-species or direct approach. While no previous contrapuntal training is necessary to absorb this material, some acquaintance with Baroque polyphonic terminology proves helpful. Key features include: musical examples illustrating specific devices are taken from musical literature or composed by the author; demonstrates the possibility of employing a single given pitch series within the contexts of different compositional techniques; includes a collection of complete or excerpted movements drawn from musical literature at the conclusion of each major textual division; emphasizes Palestrina and the Counter-Reformation sacred style; discusses various compositional procedures of the late Renaissance, including paraphrase, cantus firmus, familiar style, parody, polychoral technique, and chromaticism.