Student's Counterpoint (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Charles W. Pearce

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330414217 ISBN 13 : 9781330414217

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Discover how logic shapes music in Pearce’s Student's Counterpoint. This practical guide shows why counterpoint and reasoning share a surprising kinship, helping you learn to craft clear, well-structured musical lines.

This edition presents foundational ideas that connect musical thinking to formal logic. It explains how to analyze melodies, build coherent progressions, and apply rules across different counterpoint species, with concrete explanations and examples. You’ll find practical guidance on harmony, syncopation, suspensions, and cadences, designed for students and teachers alike.

• Clear explanations of how musical ideas mirror logical reasoning and how to apply that to composing.


• Step-by-step guidance for writing counterpoint across multiple species, including rules for syncopation and suspensions.


• Illustrative examples and diagrams that show how to reduce musical structure to understandable patterns.


• Practical advice on avoiding common errors and on evaluating harmonic progressions.

Ideal for readers studying music theory, composition students, and anyone seeking a disciplined approach to counterpoint.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Logic of Counterpoint, appeared from the pen of Dr. E. H. Turpin, in the columns of The Musical Standard at that time the official organ of the (now Royal) College of Organists. The main object of these articles was to show that the Art of Counterpoint stands in exactly the same relation to Musicians in particular, as the Art of Logic stands to Mankind in general. This analogy has for many years appealed to me with considerable fascination ;but since the issue of the first edition of my Students Counterpoint, Dr. Turpin has kindly drawn my attention to Archbishop Whately s Elements of Logic. A reflective perusal of that standard work has more than ever convinced me, that the many points of likeness which exist between the Arts of Logic and Counterpoint are of so close a character, that musicians who set any value upon their Art as supplying one of the mind-training processes of modern education cannot afford to disregard so remarkable an analogy.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330414217
• ISBN 13: 9781330414217
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 116
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