A Practical Approach to 16th Century Counterpoint, Revised Edition Revised Edition

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Practical work in writing counterpoint! Robert Gauldin emphasizes the acquisition of writing skills in the contrapuntal discipline and the simulation of sixteenth century sacred polyphonic idioms in this volume. The author follows a didactic method of a "non species or direct" approach. While no previous contrapuntal training is necessary to absorb this material, some acquaintance with Baroque polyphonic terminology proves helpful.

Key features include: musical examples illustrating specific devices are taken from musical literature or composed by the author; demonstrates the possibility of employing a single given pitch series within the contexts of different compositional techniques; includes a collection of complete or excerpted movements drawn from musical literature at the conclusion of each major textual division; emphasizes Palestrina and the Counter Reformation sacred style; discusses various compositional procedures of the late Renaissance, including paraphrase, cantus firmus, familiar style, parody, polychoral technique, and chromaticism.

Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Gauldin, A Practical Approach to 18th Century Counterpoint, Revised Edition (ISBN 9781478604709) and Soderlund-Scott, Examples of Gregorian Chant and Sacred Music of the 16th Century (ISBN 9780881339093).

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"This new edition makes a classic text even better. Gauldin's text is exceptional in the way that it immediately gets students writing. I am amazed at how quickly and naturally students with no prior compositional experience get past the fear of composing. Gauldin makes sixteenth-century counterpoint approachable and, most importantly, musical." --Richard Pellegrin, University of Missouri

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Waveland Press, Inc.; Revised edition (February 28, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Plastic Comb ‏ : ‎ 312 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1478604719
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1478604716
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches

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CrazyViolinist

Dry like any other textbook, but has great info

Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2017

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I accidentally ordered this edition and decided to keep it for my music library! It is rather dry and and uninspiring like pretty much any other textbook, but my husband is currently using this for grad school research on madrigals of the Renaissance, and he is getting a great deal of info from it. It is a handy and concise addition to the library of any serious music performer, theorist or historian, especially for those specializing in early music.

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Emi

Great resource

Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2021

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A worthy investment for seroius musicians.

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Excellent

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2018

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Gauldin really gives some great practical exercises in this book

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2017

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Gauldin really gives some great practical exercises in this book. My polyphony is much improved. If you're looking for a book without Palestrina, this isn't your book.

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Ioannes M.

Wonderful approach to learning counterpoint

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2014

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If you want to learn 16th Century Counterpoint, THIS is the book to use. I've gone through the Fux exercises several times, and while they're solid and fun, this book is a much more approachable way to the practice. Broken down so you're writing things that sound musical almost from the outset instead of going species by species is exactly the way to keep students engaged, whether they're learning on their own or studying in a classroom setting.

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A. H. Kotterink

Good music theory book

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2012

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Very good book, well written.
Nice and clear examples
Worth to have and to use as a reference as well as study material

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javier

Goood

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2012

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I need it for counterpoint Class, I Was thinking in selling The book,, but i am gonna keep it. D

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Jaydoggy

Vague wordings, disregarding exceptions, yet thorough detail.

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2011

We studied this book for a class on early counterpoint. Although the book is thorough, the Gauldin constantly uses phrases like "Almost always," "rarely," and "commonly" or "uncommonly" when trying to create a set of rules for early composition, and mostly uses Palestrina as a model for the rules. The shortcoming here is that all "rules" were empirical and were not actually written until Rameau came about, and by then the rules had changed. As a result, there are plenty of pieces which break these unwritten "rules."

So in doing this, he uses the vague terms like "very rarely" to acknowledge that there are exceptions to these rules, but it leaves the reader wondering where these exceptions occurred, and for that matter when in history they occurred (Composers he quotes range from the 1400s-1600s). There are a great deal of complex Medieval and Renaissance works which musicians today would look at and say, "I don't get it," and that's what I find more interesting than just acknowledging exceptions. There are plenty of pieces from the Medieval and Renaissance that have unexplained dissonances that seem to make no sense according to our conventional rules of harmony.

Despite these faults though, the book is very detailed, and does definitely explain the set-in-stone rules to the era, explaining different forms and the way counterpoint is composed. Further: it gives excellent historical background on types of pieces and their function. I would recommend this book, just remember that there are exceptions to all these rules, and if you can get passed a sentence like "Although three-voice texture is by no means the norm of the period, numerous examples may be encountered."(76), you'll be okay.

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Buen estado. Envío puntual.

Reviewed in Spain on March 4, 2020

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El libro está en general en buen estado para usar. Tiene alguna pequeña anotación a lápiz en la hoja previa a la contraportada hecha por su anterior propietario. El contenido del libro me interesa.

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