Download or read book An Introduction to Sixteenth Century Counterpoint and Palestrina s Musical Style written by Robert Stewart and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a music theory text that presents a systematic approach to polyphonic composition in the ecclesiastical style of Palestrina. It is designed for use in beginning and intermediate level courses in modal counterpoint and helps students develop a systematic and reliable method to compare individual composers and stylistic trends of the Renaissance. It contains a comprehensive collection of Palestrina's works as well as selections from Lassus. Tear-out exercises can be used in conjunction with the text.
Download or read book Counterpoint written by Knud Jeppesen and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First paperback edition of classic introductory text features history of contrapuntal theory, technical features, "species" exercises in 2-, 3- and 4-part counterpoint; canon, motet, Mass, more. Includes many musical examples.
Download or read book A Practical Approach to 16th Century Counterpoint written by Robert Gauldin and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical work in writing counterpoint! 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.
Download or read book A Practical Approach to Sixteenth century Counterpoint written by Robert Gauldin and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1985 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author emphasizes 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 taken from musical literature or composed by the author; demonstration of the possibility of employing a single given pitch series within the contexts of different compositional techniques; a collection of complete or excerpted movements drawn from musical literature at the conclusion of each major textual division; emphasis of Palestrina and the Counter Reformation sacred style; discussion of various compositional procedures of the late Renaissance, including paraphrase, cantus firmus, familiar style, parody, polychoral technique, and chromaticism.
Download or read book The Style of Palestrina and the Dissonance written by Knud Jeppesen and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic study remains one of the foremost works on the music of Palestrina. Features a rigorous and valuable analysis of the composer's handling of rhythm, line, harmony, and dissonance.
Download or read book Sixteenth Century Polyphony A Basic For The Study Of Counterpoint written by Arthur Tillman Merritt and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A. Tillman Merritt graduated from the University of Missouri in 1924 and was the first recipient of a new degree, Bachelor of Fine Arts, in 1926. That autumn he came to Harvard as a graduate student in music; recognition of his unusual talent was immediate. In February, 1927, he was asked to be Walter Piston's teaching assistant in music theory. This book is intended to be an introduction and guide to the early study of counterpoint, and deals with the construction of the single line and with the combination of two lines, three lines, and four lines.
Download or read book A Manual of Sixteenth century Contrapuntal Style written by Charlotte Smith and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the expressive power of sixteenth-century vocal polyphony, giving special emphasis to the development of aural familiarity with the style. Every element of sixteenth-century counterpoint is defined, described, and liberally illustrated, included for analysis and singing are complete compositions and movements by Palestrina, Lasso, Victoria, Byrd, Morales, and Joaquin.
Download or read book Palestrina s Style written by Malcolm Boyd and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1973 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the music of Palestrina as its basis, the book describes as lucidly and concisely as possible the stylistic features of 16th-century vocal music in the main forms of motet and mass. While due emphasis is laid upon contrapuntal textures, such matters as harmony and cadence are not neglected. There are a number of music examples and graded exercises, which bring the student into direct contact with the music discussed.
Download or read book Modal Counterpoint Renaissance Style written by Peter Schubert and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only species counterpoint text that draws directly on Renaissance treatises, Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style, Second Edition, provides a conceptual framework to guide students through composition and analysis as it teaches them general structural principles. It distinguishes between technical requirements ("hard" rules) and stylistic guidelines ("soft" rules), and includes coordinated exercises that allow students to develop their skills systematically. The second edition integrates improvisation activities and new repertoire examples into many chapters; revises the chapter on three-part writing (Chapter 14) so that it pays more attention to rules and strategies; reworks the chapters on cadences (Chapter 10) and on writing two parts in mixed values (Chapter 11) to make them more accessible to students; incorporates clarified instructions throughout; and includes a summary of rules.
Download or read book Direct Approach to Counterpoint in 16th Century Style written by Gustave Fredric Soderlund and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contrapuntal Technique in the Sixteenth Century written by Reginald Owen Morris and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Italian Madrigal in the Early Sixteenth Century written by Iain Fenlon and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1988 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1988 book examines the genesis and dissemination of the Italian madrigal in its formative stages. Iain Fenlon and James Haar have analysed this vast repertoire as it is found in manuscript and print offer information concerning the date and provenance of many fundamental sources together with a view of the subject which differs radically from previous treatments. Their study is divided into two parts. The first covers the rise and early cultivation of the madrigal, chiefly in Florence and Rome. The second contains a detailed descriptive inventory of all known manuscripts and printed editions, finishing with lists of contents and concordances in each case. This important study will serve those with an interest in Renaissance music and the changing cultural ambience of early sixteenth-century Florence and Rome.
Download or read book Polyphonic Composition written by Owen Swindale and published by London : Music Department, Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Counterpoint written by Knud Jeppesen and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Counterpoint: The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth Century About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Modal Counterpoint in the Style of the Sixteenth Century written by Ernst Krenek and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this paper is to present the subject matter in concentrated form for the use of teachers and students who can devote only a limited amount of time to the study of modal counterpoint. Observance of the rules in this manual will produce a style close enough to the compositional procedures of Palestrina as to make it possible for the student to achieve, even in his elementary exercises, some of the flavor of living great music. Exclusive purity of style being neither possible nor desirable, a few details of the compositional style of this outline may correspond to the more relaxed practice of composers like Orlando di Lasso and Tomás Luis de Victoria rather than to the strictness of Palestrina. Special emphasis is placed on the development of the student's sense for freely articulated melody (hence the absence of barlines from our examples). Since the traditional training in the 'five species' tends to counteract this attainment rather than to further it, this discipline has been omitted from the present outline. In order to make the student acquainted with this method, its principles are briefly explained in the appendix."--Preface.
Download or read book Counterpoint written by Knud Jeppesen (Komponist, Dänemark) and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oxford History of Western Music written by Richard Taruskin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-27 with total page 3856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history. Written by an authoritative, opinionated, and controversial figure in musicology, The Oxford History of Western Music provides a critical aesthetic position with respect to individual works, a context in which each composition may be evaluated and remembered. Taruskin combines an emphasis on structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, to illustrate how the music itself works, and how contemporaries heard and understood it. It also describes how the c
