The Art Of Counterpoint

Author : Gioseffo Zarlino
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393008333
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutioni Harmoniche written by Gioseffo Zarlino and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1976 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zarlino's Le Istitutioni harmoniche, published in 1558, is one of the most influential music treatises of all time. To his contemporaries it revealed the secrets of composition he had learned from Adrian Willaert, who brought to Italy the polyphonic art of the Netherlands. To the modern scholar Zarlino's treatise illumines the compositional technique of the golden age of vocal polyphony. The essence of this art is contained in Part III, "The Art of Counterpoint," which is here translated into English for the first time.

Author : Markand Thakar
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300046380
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counterpoint written by Markand Thakar and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counterpoint manuals have long been central to the music education of composers, historians, and theorists. In this book a conductor uses counterpoint exercises to aid musicians in becoming sensitive to the fundamental ingredients of good music making.

Author : Philip Kennicott
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393635376
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning written by Philip Kennicott and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize–winning critic’s “lyrical and haunting” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker) reflection on the meaning and emotional impact of a Bach masterwork. As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It was the only music that didn’t seem trivial or irrelevant, and it enabled him to both experience her death and remove himself from it. For him, Bach’s music held the elements of both joy and despair, life and its inevitable end. He spent the next five years trying to learn one of the composer’s greatest keyboard masterpieces, the Goldberg Variations. In Counterpoint, he recounts his efforts to rise to the challenge, and to fight through his grief by coming to terms with his memories of a difficult, complicated childhood. He describes the joys of mastering some of the piano pieces, the frustrations that plague his understanding of others, the technical challenges they pose, and the surpassing beauty of the melodies, harmonies, and counterpoint that distinguish them. While exploring Bach’s compositions he sketches a cultural history of playing the piano in the twentieth century. And he raises two questions that become increasingly interrelated, not unlike a contrapuntal passage in one of the variations itself: What does it mean to know a piece of music? What does it mean to know another human being?

Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521246552
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mendelssohn's Musical Education written by R. Larry Todd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-04-21 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study and critical edition of Mendelssohn's composition exercise book from his early period of study with Carl Friedrich Zelter (1819-1821). The workbook illustrates in considerable detail the young musician's struggle to master the rules of part writing and principles of counterpoint. Much of Zelter's systematic teaching method is grounded in the eighteenth-century theoretical tradition of Berlin; not surprisingly, the exercises bear the stamp of the music of J. S. Bach, which heavily influenced such Berlin musicians as C. P. E. Bach, C. F. C. Fasch, Marpurg, Kirnberger, Zelter and Mendelssohn. There is little doubt that the historicist attitude of the mature Mendelssohn - as seen in his efforts to revive the works of Bach and Handel and in his propensity toward strict contrapuntal techniques in his own music - was conditioned by these studies with Zelter. The publication of the workbook sheds new light on the early development of one ofthe most important nineteenth-century composers who, though affected by the new wave of romanticism that swept over Europe, never lost his respect for the past. No less important, the manuscript includes several previously unpublished pieces which rank among Mendelssohn's earliest compositions.

Author : Charles Herbert Kitson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Counterpoint written by Charles Herbert Kitson and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter Piston
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393097283
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counterpoint written by Walter Piston and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1947 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the contrapuntal element in significant works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for the music student who fully understands the composition of harmony

Author : Homer Albert Norris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Counterpoint written by Homer Albert Norris and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gioseffo Zarlino
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Counterpoint written by Gioseffo Zarlino and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Benjamin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint written by Thomas Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Johannes Tinctoris
Publisher : S.l., American Institute of Musicology
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Counterpoint written by Johannes Tinctoris and published by S.l., American Institute of Musicology. This book was released on 1961 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: