TREATISE ON COUNTERPOINT AND FUGUE (PART 18. FUGUE) PART XVIII – Historical Origins of the Fugue XVIII.1 Imitative antecedents in late medieval polyphonyXVIII.2 The Renaissance ricercare as a proto-form…
TREATISE ON COUNTERPOINT AND FUGUE (PART 17. FUGUE) PART XVII — Historical, Formal, and Conceptual Foundations of the Fugue XVII.1 Conceptual definition of the fugueXVII.2 Terminological origin and historical…
TREATISE ON COUNTERPOINT AND FUGUE (PART 16) Counterpoint combines independent lines with sonic coherence. This idea has sustained compositional practice from Renaissance theory to modern pedagogy. Moreover, its study…
TREATISE ON COUNTERPOINT AND FUGUE (PART 15) Dive deeper into Counterpoint in jazz and related genres. Discover how improvised polyphony emerges and how melodic Counterpoint is shaped through clear,…
TREATISE ON COUNTERPOINT AND FUGUE (PARTS 13 to 14) Explore counterpoint in the twentieth century and contemporary music through a rigorous, clear, and up-to-date analysis. This synthesis examines the…
TREATISE ON CONTERPOINT AND FUGUE (Parts 11 to 12) This synthesis on Baroque counterpoint and Bach explains how music gradually moves from modality to the major–minor tonal system and…
COMPACT TABLE OF THE FIVE SPECIES OF COUNTERPOINT Explore an academic synthesis of the five species of Counterpoint, from the first species note against note, the foundation of strict…
TREATISE ON COUNTERPOINT AND FUGUE (Parts 9 to 10) The fourth species examines syncopation and suspensions as means of introducing structural dissonance through preparation, suspension, and resolution, highlighting expressive…
TREATISE ON COUNTERPOINT AND FUGUE (Parts 6 to 8) Rigorous analysis of species counterpoint: first, second, and third. Rules, consonances, dissonances, pedagogical function, historical examples, and formative value. PART…
TREATISE ON COUNTERPOINT AND FUGUE (Parts 4&5) Parts IV and V analyze the theoretical systematization of Counterpoint and the species of counterpoint, addressing historical treatises, consonances, dissonances, rules, the…