Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style

by Peter Schubert

Book Overview

An exceptional text for undergraduate and graduate music students, Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style uses a wide variety of carefully graded exercises to present guidelines for writing and analyzing 16th-century music. The only species counterpoint text that draws directly on Renaissance treatises, it provides a conceptual framework to guide students through composition and analysis as it teaches them general structural principles. With stylistically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019533194X
• ISBN13: 9780195331943
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.0" x 10.9"