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Adjacent Voices
advanced modal counterpoint studies
Authentic Cadence
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Cadential Idioms
Cambiata Figure
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contrapuntal exercises
Direct Fifths
Dissonance Treatment
early music pedagogy
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historical music analysis
Inverted Result
Invertible Counterpoint
Motet Section
Musica Ficta
Nonharmonic Tones
Orlandus Lassus
Pages 109ff
Passing Tone
Pitch Intervals
Plagal Cadence
polyphonic composition
Renaissance music theory
Root Position Triads
Sacred Vocal Work
Scale Degree Patterns
Sixteenth Century Motet
Stretto Imitation
Triple Meter
Untransposed Modes
Vice Versa
voice leading techniques
Product details
- ISBN 9780415971713
- Weight: 530g
- Dimensions: 210 x 280mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jan 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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"The Craft of Modal Counterpoint" is the companion book to Benjamin's "The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint," recently republished in a second edition by Routledge. Modal counterpoint is the style of composition that was employed until the "tonal" revolution pioneered by Bach; it is the basis for most Early Music.
Benjamin, a composer and pedagogue, offers a complete analysis of this important musical style. He begins by covering general aspects of the style, then covers in detail two, three, and four-part counterpoint. The Motet, an important form of vocal composition in this period, is studied separately. The book concludes with a brief anthology of key scores, 15 in all, for the student to study further. Also includes 132 musical examples.
