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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
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Benjamin, Thomas
Other Authors: Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge, 2003.
Edition:2nd ed.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.