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The Art & Science of Combining Musical Lines
 

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    Counterpoint Guide  |  "Counterpoint is the art of combining melodic lines. This involves consideration of the individual melodies and attention to their interaction as they unfold together through time."  |  ADVICE:  Ignore the dead links  |  Music 160
     

    Rules of Counterpoint--The GSA Music Theory Department  |  The Three Commandments of Partwriting  |  Chord Progressions  |   Ranges of Voices  |   Types of Motion  |  Rules for Doubling  |  Open and Closed Position  |  ET Productions
     

    Online Contrapuntal Exercises for Music 3113  |  Onscreen versions in Sibelius format; PostScript versions in Score notation   |  GJC

    Species Counterpoint Overview  |  al 5 species  |  listen  |  see music  |  Why Study Species Counterpoint?  |  Important Terms  |  duke.edu
     

    The Counterpoint Page  |   Punctus contra punctum  |   Punctus contra punctum  |  Glossary of contrapuntal terms  |  Treatises on Counterpoint  |  About Contrapuntus.com  |
     

    The Music of Jeff Harrington  |  Music that is tonal and intensely contrapuntal inspired by New Orleans and classical music traditions. |   Complete Album - Obliterature - Available for Download  |  Parnasse.com
     

    Music Theory Online - Counterpoint  |  brief decription, also downloadable pdf - full article  |
     

    Recommended Books for the Study of Composition, Orchestration and Electronic Music Production  |  Jerry Gerber
     

    Counterpoint  |  excellent full page explanation with many  link-terms  to assist understanding  |  StudioReview
     

    NetStoreUSA  |  Sheet Music publication  |  Elements Of 18Th Century Counterpoint  |  Bob Dingley
     

    Encyclopedia  | Counterpoint  |  Species counterpoint   |  Contrapuntal Derivations  |  External links  /  article links  |  TheFreeDictionary
     

    Counterpoint   |  1 Species counterpoint  |  2 Contrapuntal Derivations  |  3 Dissonant counterpoint  |  4 External links  |  Wikipedia
     

    Schenker's Theory of Counterpoint  |  Consonance & dissonance  |  2 part counterpoint  | Species Counterpoint  |  SchenkerGuide
     

    Definition of Counterpoint  |  Classical Music Archives
     

    Online Scores for Study and Analysis  |  Plato.Arcadia.ca
     

    Explains, using rounds  |  lots of sound clips  |  music notation examples  |  MS Miller
     

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    COUNTERPOINT:  | Bach  |  Beethoven  |  Mozart  |  Palestrina  |  Cesar Franck  |  Joseph Fux  |  
    Vivaldi  |  Frank Bridge  |  John Williams  |  Paul Hindemith  |  Schoenberg  |  Anton von Webern  |  
    Franz Schubert Robert Schumann  |  William Schuman  |  William Byrd  |  Franz Liszt  |  Chopin  |  Toru Takemitsu Pierre Boulez  |  Karlheinz Stockhausen  |  Igor stravinsky  |  Mahler  |  Walter Piston  |  Telemann  |  Grieg  |  Brahms  |  Wagner  |  Bartok  |  Rachmaninoff  |  Prokofiev  |  Albinoni  |  Elliot Carter  |  Benjamin Britten  |  Gyorgy Ligeti  |  John Adams  |  Bruckner  |  Carlos Chavez  |  Corigliano  |  George Crumb  |  Roger Sessions  |  Faure  |  Elgar  |  Philip Glass  |  Handel  |  Michael Tippett  |  
    Harry Partch  |  Purcell  |  Scarlatti  |  Scriabin  |  Shostakovich  |  Sibelius  |  Morton Subotnick    |  Tartini  |  Heitor Villa-Lobos  |  Edgard Varese  |  Louis Vierne
     

    Excellent, thorough article resource page! - esp. for composers!  |  The Relationship Between Contrapuntal and Serial Composition Techniques As Seen in Works of Webern and Stravinsky   |  R Kelly
     

    Counterpoint  | Piano  |  Organ  |  winds  |   brass  |  strings  |  string quartet  |  symphony  |  choral  |  Google Search
     

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    Musical Counterpoint Textbooks:  01

     
    Counterpoint / Kent Kennan
    Counterpoint in Composition / Felix Salzer
    Study of Counterpoint / John J. Fux
    The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint / Tom Benjamin
    A Practical Approach to Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint / Robert Gauldin
    Gradus / Leo Kraft
    Counterpoint Workbook / Kent Wheeler Kennan
    Modal and Tonal Counterpoint / Harold Owen
    Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint / David Yearsley
    A Practical Approach to Sixteenth-Century Counterpoint / Robert Gauldin
    Counterpoint / Knud Jeppesen
    Counterpoint / Walter Piston
    Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style / Peter Schubert
    Baroque Counterpoint / Peter Schubert
    Studies in the art of counterpoint / S Macpherson
    Coherence, Counterpoint, Instrumentatio, Instruction / Arnold Schoenberg 
    Counterpoint / Markand Thakar
    Convertible Counterpoint in the Strict Style / Serge I. Taneiev
    Eighteenth-Century Imitative Counterpoint / Wallace Berry
    Counterpoint, Composition and Musica Ficta / Margaret Bent 
    The Shaping Forces in Music / Ernst Toch
    The structure of music / Robert Erickson
    Counterpoint / Heinrich Schenker
    Polyphonic Composition / O. Swindale
    African Polyphony and Polyrhythm / Simha Arom
    Counterpoint / Henry Martin
    Contrapuntal ear-training / Irving Gingrich
    Contrapunctus / Prosdocimus
    A Treatise on Counterpoint, Canon and Fugue
    A Treatise on Counterpoint and Fugue / Luigi Cherubini
    A New Look at 16th-Century Counterpoint / Margarita Merriman
    The art of counterpoint / Johannes Tinctori
    Counterpoint / Frederick Bridge
    Direct Approach to Counterpoint in 16th Century Style / Gustave Soderland
    Preliminary Exercises in Counterpoint / Arnold Schoenberg 
    The Technique of Canon / Hugo Norden
    A counterpoint manual / Ernest Kanitz
    Elementary Harmony and Counterpoint / Eric Rollison
    Harmony and Counterpoint / Bell Yung
    Essentials of Eighteenth Century Counterpoint / Neale Mason
    Counterpoint  |  Henry Martin
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    Ludi Leonum / Paul Hindemith
    Double Counterpoint And Canon / Ebenezer Prout 
    Twentieth Century Counterpoint / Humphrey Searle
    Applied Strict Counterpoint / Charles Kitson
    Counterpoint simplified / Francis York
    An Introduction to Tonal Theory / Peter Westergaard
    Modern Academic Counterpoint / Charles William Pearce
    Counterpoint applied in the invention, fugue, canon / Percy Goetschius 
    The Technique of Canon / Hugo Norden
    The Musicians Theory Book / Asger Hamerik
    Diatonic Model Counterpoint / Ralph Dunstan
    350 exercises in harmony, counterpoint and modulation / S Macpherson
    Syllabus in compositional techniques / Robert Cogan
    Practical lessons in melody-writing / Arthur C Edwards
    Late Renaissance counterpoint / Thomas Putsche
    Principles of counterpoint / V. Howard Talley
    Elementary 18th-19th century counterpoint / Percy Goetschius
    Living musical theory, a comprehensive course / Henry N Switten
    A treatise on harmony / John Pepusch
    Two-part 16th century counterpoint / Lois Lautner
    Elements of music, harmony and counterpoint, rhythm / T. H Bertenshaw 
    The instant composer / Peter L Alexander
    What is music? / Isaac Rice
    The organization of music / Donald O Johnston
    Improvised vocal counterpoint in the late renaissance / Ernest T Ferand
    Invertible counterpoint and canon / C. H Kitson
    Harmony Through Counterpoint / Douglas Green
    Seventeenth-century contrapuntal theory in Germany / Myron R Falck
    Harmony - Baroque to contemporary / R. Evan Copley
    Harmony and counterpoint, with exercises / Thomas Bertenshaw
    The self-instructor in musical composition, and thoroughbass / B Woodbury
    Examples illustrating the development of melodic line / Gustave Soderlund
    Polyphonic forms and devices by contemporary composers / Dorothy Slepian
    Automatic species counterpoint / Bill Schottstaedt
    Combined and Florid Counterpoint / G. J. Bennett
    Modern tonal counterpoint in two points / Houston Bright
    The self-instructor in musical composition / I. B Woodbury
    The melodic line / Richard Church
    The improvised melodic line / Michael Longo
    How to Write a Melody / Alexander Borisoff
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    Contrapuntal Harmony for Beginners / Charles Kitson
    Harmony and Voice Leading / Edward Aldwell
    Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns / Nicolas Slonimsky
    Basic contrapuntal technique / H. Owen Reed
    Lessons in Music Writing / Boris Berlin
    Quartal Harmony & Voicings for Guitar / Tom Floyd
    Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory / Joseph N. Straus 
    Voicing and Comping for Jazz Vibraphone / Thomas L. Davis
    Examples Of Four Part Writing From Figured Basses / James Lyon
    Jazz Piano Voicings / Rob Mullins
    Voicings For Jazz Keyboard / Frank Mantooth
    Beginning to Compose / John Davies
    Twentieth-Century Harmony / Vincent Persichetti
    Five lesson course in two-part writing / John C Brydson
    Modern Jazz Voicings / Ted Pease
    Counterpoint: Polyphonic Vocal Style of the 16th Century / Knud Jeppesen
    Improvised vocal counterpoint in the late renaissance / Ernest T Ferand 
    Organ Voicing & Tuning / Charles A. Daniell
    A Comparison of the Fugues of Bach and Handel / Cora Bonolom
    The sacred vocal counterpoint of the sixteenth century / Samuel H Scott
    Beethoven's Studies in thorough-bass, counterpoint and the art of scientific composition / Beethoven
    Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint / David Yearsley
    Mozart's practical elements of thorough bass / Mozart
    Examples of Gregorian chant & works by Orlandus Lasso / Gustave Soderlund 
    Examples illustrating the development of melodic line / Gustave Soderlund 
    Polyphonic Composition / O. Swindale
    Italian counterpoint / Ward Hellstrom / Robert Jones 
    Workbook for Harmony and its contrapuntal treatment
    Strict counterpoint in Palestrina style / Alan Bush
    Counterpoint in the Style of J.S. Bach
    Contrapuntal Harmonic Technique of the Eighteenth / A.I. McHose
    The theory and practice of tone relations / Percy Goetschius
    A Manual of Sixteenth Century Contrapuntal Style / Charlotte Smith
    The Technique of Byrd's Vocal Polyphony / Herbert Andrews
    Rhythmic & Contrapuntal Structures in the Music of Arthur Honegger / Keith Waters 
    Contrapuntal ear-training / Irving Gingrich
    Remarks on Hindemith's contrapuntal technique / Hans Tischler
    Modern contrapuntal technique / Gordon Delamont
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