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Author : Thomas Benjamin
Release : 2004-03
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 639/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint by : Thomas Benjamin
Download or read book The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint written by Thomas Benjamin. This book was released on 2004-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Philip Kennicott
Release : 2020-02-18
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 376/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning by : Philip Kennicott
Download or read book Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning written by Philip Kennicott. This book was released on 2020-02-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize–winning critic’s “lyrical and haunting” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker) reflection on the meaning and emotional impact of a Bach masterwork. As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It was the only music that didn’t seem trivial or irrelevant, and it enabled him to both experience her death and remove himself from it. For him, Bach’s music held the elements of both joy and despair, life and its inevitable end. He spent the next five years trying to learn one of the composer’s greatest keyboard masterpieces, the Goldberg Variations. In Counterpoint, he recounts his efforts to rise to the challenge, and to fight through his grief by coming to terms with his memories of a difficult, complicated childhood. He describes the joys of mastering some of the piano pieces, the frustrations that plague his understanding of others, the technical challenges they pose, and the surpassing beauty of the melodies, harmonies, and counterpoint that distinguish them. While exploring Bach’s compositions he sketches a cultural history of playing the piano in the twentieth century. And he raises two questions that become increasingly interrelated, not unlike a contrapuntal passage in one of the variations itself: What does it mean to know a piece of music? What does it mean to know another human being?
Author : David Yearsley
Release : 2002-11-14
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 465/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint by : David Yearsley
Download or read book Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint written by David Yearsley. This book was released on 2002-11-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bach's Germany musical counterpoint was an art involving much more than the sophisticated use of advanced compositional techniques. A range of theological, cultural, social and political meanings attached themselves to the use of complex procedures such as canon and double counterpoint. This book explores the significance of Bach's counterpoint in a range of interrelated contexts: its use as a means of reflecting on death; its parallels to alchemy; its vexed status in the galant music culture of the first half of the eighteenth century; its value as a representation of political power; and its central importance in the creation of Bach's image in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Touching on a wide array of contemporary literary, philosophical, critical, and musical texts, the book includes new readings of many of Bach's late works in order to re-evaluate the status and meaning of counterpoint in Bach's work and legacy.
Author : Johann Fux
Release : 1965
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 775/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Study of Counterpoint by : Johann Fux
Download or read book Study of Counterpoint written by Johann Fux. This book was released on 1965. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most celebrated book on counterpoint is Fux's great theoretical work GRADUS AD PARNASSUM. Since its appearance in 1725, it has been used by and has directly influenced the work of many of the great composers, including J.S. Bach, Haydn, and Beethoven. Originally written in Latin, this work has been translated in to the principal European languages. The present translation by Alfred Mann is the first faithful rendering in English, presenting the essence of Fux's teachings.
Author : Christoph Neidhofer
Release : 2024-01-01
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 24X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Baroque Counterpoint by : Christoph Neidhofer
Download or read book Baroque Counterpoint written by Christoph Neidhofer. This book was released on 2024-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book teaches Baroque compositional techniques through writing and improvisation exercises and analysis of repertoire examples. It provides readers with a historical outlook by focusing largely on principles taught in treatises from the period 1680–1780. This expanded edition includes new sections with keyboard exercises that provide training in Partimento performance as it was practiced at the time, helping students master Baroque style from the inside. While the focus of the book is on fugue, it also treats chorale preludes, stylized dances, inventions, and trio sonatas. The volume is divided into two parts—basic and advanced— which could be taught in a two-semester sequence. There are various options to introduce material from Part II into Part I for a one-semester course.
