Practical Counterpoint: A Concise Treatise Illustrative of Both the Strict and Free Styles (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Macpherson, Stewart

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ISBN 10 : 1333793200 ISBN 13 : 9781333793203

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

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Counterpoint have already appeared. It has been the authors conviction, in teaching his own pupils, that far more practical good would accrue to the learner if much of the attention and time generally devoted to the working of countless exercises in Strict Counterpoint were to be given to a closer and more intelligent study of the Free Style, as exemplified in the works of composers from the time of Purcell, Bach, and Handel down to the present day. The author does not by this mean that the practice of so-called Strict Counterpoint should be entirely given up; on the contrary, he is deeply sensible that its restrictions are very valuable in the early stages of the students work. What he would very strongly urge though, is that it should be merely preparatory to a much more extended consideration of the Free Style. The present treatise therefore deals first with Strict, and later with Free Counterpoint; and here it should be stated, once for all, that the object of the former is not (as would often seem to be the case) to train the student to write in the idiom of a bygone age; but, by causing him to work within certain melodic and harmonic limits, to impart to him a strength and facility which cannot be attained otherwise. Strict Counterpoint does this in a two-fold manner (i.) By being purely Diatcnic in its character; forming by this means the only sure foundation upon which the beginner can cultivate a natural, flowing style. (ii.) By excluding essential discords; by which the complexity of the students first exercises is materially lessened, enabling him to give the greater attention to the melodic aspect of his part-writing, besides giving him invaluable experience in the treatment of those harmonies which are not governed by fixed laws of progression, c., viz., the Concordant Triads; and, as every teacher knows, it is in this very direction that the le
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333793200
• ISBN 13: 9781333793203
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 196
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