Counterpoint; Strict and Free (Classic Reprint)

Author: Ebenezer Prout
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Keywords: reprint, classic, free, strict, counterpoint
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 2010-04-22
List price: $9.19
ISBN-10: 1440085641
ISBN-13: 9781440085642

Book Description:

Counterpoint STRICT AND FREE. PART I.-STRICT COUNTERPOINT, CHAPTER I, introduction. 1. By the word Counterpoint is meant the art of adding to a given melody one or more other melodies, above or below, in such a manner that all the parts when sounded together shall produce correct harmony. The word is derived from the Latin " contrapunctum." In old music the notes were written as dots (Latin, punctum-a point, or dot), and if, when one melody was given, another was to be added to it, this was described as "punctum contra punctum"-dot against dot, or (as we now say), " note against note." This, as will be seen presently, is the simplest kind of counterpoint. In its wider sense, counterpoint may be defined as the art of combining two or more parts or voices, each of which possesses independent melodic interest and importance. 2. The essential difference between harmony and counterpoint is that in the former the construction of chords and their relation to one another are the

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS; [MB- The numbers refer in every instance to the sections, not to the pages]; PART I-STRICT COUNTERPOINT CHAPTER I-Introduction page 15; Meaning of the word Counterpoint, 1-How it differs from Harmony, 2-5- Simple and Double Counterpoint, 6, 7-Triple and Quadruple Counterpoint, 8-Strict Counterpoint, 9-Free Counterpoint, 10-The use of the study of Counterpoint, 11-Open score, 12-The C clefs, 13-The compass of the voices, 14; CHAPTER II-Melodic and Harmonic Progression page 20; Conjunct and disjunct motion, 16-The best leaps, 17-The leap of an augmented interval, 18-The leap of a diminished interval, 19-The leap of a seventh, 20-Leap of a seventh or ninth, with one intermediate note, 21-Approaching and quitting large leaps, 22-The leap to an accented note, 23-Repeating the same note, 24-Similar motion : forbidden con-secutives, 25-Hidden octaves and fifths, 26-28-Discords with the bass, 29-The diminished fi


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