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The craft of tonal counterpoint

Title
The craft of tonal counterpoint / Thomas Benjamin.
Author
Benjamin, Thomas.
Publication
New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Additional Authors
  • Benjamin, Thomas.
  • Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.
Description
xxiv, 404 pages : illustrations; 28 cm
Summary
"The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint is a practical text for the analysis and composition of tonal counterpoint. Tonal contrapuntal technique is fundamental to all classical music from the Baroque era through the end of the tonal period and beyond. Using examples from the music of J. S. Bach, the author takes students through a series of carefully graded, cumulative exercises that stress both analysis and writing. Benjamin avoids a species approach to counterpoint, and covers chromaticism and fugal writing in exceptional detail. The exercises cover a wide range of formats, including error detection, linear pitch reduction, analysis and composition. The book is also unique in that it incorporates a 100-page anthology of Bach's shorter works, exemplifying his major contrapuntal forms and procedures - effective for analysis, in-class performance, and compositional models. The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint is a complete pedagogic package for students of composition and music theory."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Counterpoint > Textbooks
  • Musical analysis > Music collections
Note
  • Rev. ed. of: Counterpoint in the style of J.S. Bach. c1986.
  • "Anthology (all works are by J.S. Bach)": p. 296.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 295) and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. Line and Other Elements of Style -- Ch. 2. Nonimitative Two-Voice Writing -- Ch. 3. Chromaticism in Two Voices -- Ch. 4. Composition of Binary Dance Forms -- Ch. 5. Double (Invertible) Counterpoint -- Ch. 6. Imitation; Canon -- Ch. 7. The Two-Voice Invention -- Ch. 8. Three-Voice Counterpoint I: Texture, Rhythm, Harmony -- Ch. 9. Three-Voice Counterpoint II: Chromaticism, Triple Counterpoint, Canon -- Ch. 10. Fugue I -- Ch. 11. Fugue II -- Ch. 12. Four-Voice Counterpoint -- Ch. 13. Variation Forms -- Ch. 14. Cantus Firmus Procedure: The Chorale Prelude -- App. 1. Harmony -- App. 2. Composing for the Organ.
ISBN
0415943914 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2003012527
OCLC
  • ocm52424073
  • SCSB-14493157
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries