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Hardcover Counterpoint Book

ISBN: 0393097285

ISBN13: 9780393097283

Counterpoint

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In Counterpoint--for many years one of the most highly regarded texts in the field--the principles by which the contrapuntal element has operated in the works of composers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centures are presented. The counterpoint studied is the harmonic, rhythmic, instrumental style so well represented by the music of Bach. For it is this style that most of the composers who came after Bach, including those of our own time, have regarded...

Customer Reviews

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Good

Not as good as Kennan's. Also the edition and style are really old. Doesn't have the same stature as Piston's Harmony.

The Broader View

Probably the most inspirational and thought-provoking counterpoint textbook. Walter Piston notes that all music is contrapuntal to some degree. He admonishes students not to make a 'fetish' of counterpoint, and discusses appositely (if tersely) the problem of twentieth-century counterpoint. I recommend this book to all musicians, but I would probably prefer to teach counterpoint with Kent Kennan's textbook.Also recommended: PENTATONIC SCALES FOR THE JAZZ-ROCK KEYBOARDIST by Jeff Burns
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