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Baroque Counterpoint

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For third-year undergraduate courses in Tonal Counterpoint, Baroque Analysis courses, courses on the music of Bach and Handel, and graduate courses in Counterpoint and Baroque Music.

This informative text teaches writing and understanding Baroque counterpoint. Unique in approach, Baroque Counterpoint  uses extensive quotations and examples from contemporaneous treatises; the authors explain the principles underlying the compositional techniques of the period, introducing students to the widest range of composers of any of the books currently available. It emphasizes singing and improvisation as well as writing.

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Features + Benefits

• A foundation in harmony-Builds on four-part progression (as J.S. Bach did)-the only text on the market to do so.

  • Eases students' confusion by introducing harmony rather than two-part writing as a first concept.

• Abundant exercises-Includes short, easy exercises.

  • Ensures students' success by focusing on small problems that lay the groundwork for them to compose original pieces from scratch.

• Treatise evidence-Includes extensive quotations and examples from eighteenth- century writers.

  • Puts students in touch with the concerns of Baroque composers.

• "Strict" vs. "free"-Illustrates the Baroque theorists' distinction that remains pedagogically useful today.

  • Strict style gives students a solid foundation with a clear harmonic framework within which they can more easily compose complex music free style, with accented dissonance and chromaticism, is inroduced later.

• Informative appendices-Include Partimento Fugue, List of Fugue Subject Types from WTC, and Glossary.

  • Provide easy reference and valuable supplements.

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