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The appearance of a new book on Counterpoint, when there are already in existence numerous treatises on the subject, may seem to demand some justification. All books on Counterpoint must of necessity bear a certain resemblance to each other. Any difference must be sought in the point of view, in the relative prominence given to various phases of the subject, and in the treatment of detail, rather than in the statement of general truths or in novelty of arrangement. The history and the broad outlines of Counterpoint offer little scope for originality, and in these matters the present work will be found not unlike its predecessors.
The chief points of difference are: -
(a) The derivation of the rules of Scholastic Counterpoint from the practice of Palestrina, whose works exhibit the Art of Counterpoint in its perfection, rather than from a study of textbooks, the many discrepancies between which are due to the fact that theory has been built upon theory, often mingled with personal prejudice, so that the original basis of the earlier treatises has been forgotten or perhaps ignored. Little by little, harmonic resource has been restricted and melodic idiom enlarged. The result is a system of Counterpoint which has little connexion with the past and none with the present, containing a code of arbitrary rules which in many important features do not represent the technique of any period of musical art.
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