Modal Counterpoint Renaissance Style

Name: Modal Counterpoint Renaissance Style
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ISBN: 9780195331943

ISBN-10: 019533194X

ISBN-13: 9780195331943

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Peter Schubert

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An exceptional text for undergraduate and graduate music students, Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style uses a wide variety of carefully graded exercises to present guidelines for writing and analyzing 16th-century music. The only species counterpoint text that draws directly on Renaissancetreatises, it provides a conceptual framework to guide students through composition and analysis as it teaches them general structural principles. With stylistically diverse examples including not only motets and mass movements but also French chansons, German chorale settings, English canzonets,Italian madrigals, and Spanish organ hymns, villancicos, and ricercars, the book gives students a "real-life"…

Book details

List price: $139.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/18/2007
Binding: Comb Bound
Pages: 368
Size: 10.91" wide x 9.09" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 2.156
Language: English



Preface


Note to the Student Note to the Instructor


Introduction: Renaissance Musical Style and Notation



Mode



Introduction to Two-Part Species Counterpoint



First Species



Second Species



Third Species



Fourth Species



Mixed Values



Counterpoint with Repetition of a Motive



Motivic Variation



Cadence Formulas in Two Voices



Two Parts in Mixed Values



The Imitative Duo



Invertible Counterpoint



Three Parts



Three Parts in Mixed Values



The Three-Voice Invertible Canon



Four-Part Writing



Adding Three Parts in Mixed Values to a CF



Four Parts in Mixed Values



Composing a Whole Piece


Appendices



Text Setting



Canon Against a CF



Solmization



Sample Motive Placements



The Invertible Duo


Bibliography


Index