Counterpoint: The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth Century by Jeppesen, Knud

Counterpoint: The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth Century

This classic introductory text focuses on the polyphonic vocal style perfected by Palestrina. Unlike many other texts,...
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Author: Knud Jeppesen
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Counterpoint: The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth Century by Jeppesen, Knud

Counterpoint: The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth Century

BD$29.94

Counterpoint: The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth Century

BD$29.94
Author: Knud Jeppesen
Format: Paperback
Language: English
This classic introductory text focuses on the polyphonic vocal style perfected by Palestrina. Unlike many other texts, it maintains a careful balance between theoretical and practical problems, between historical and systematic methodology. The result is an exceptionally useful resource, ideal for classroom use in teaching modal counterpoint.
In Part One, Knud Jeppesen (1892-1974), the world-renowned musicologist and leading authority on Palestrina, offers a superb outline history of contrapuntal theory. He begins by exploring the beginnings of contrapuntal theory from the ninth to the fourteenth centuries. This is followed by separate discussions of each succeeding century, the styles of Palestrina and Bach, the "Palestrina Movement" after Fux, and more. The section ends with illuminating coverage of notation, the ecclesiastical modes, melody, and harmony.
The second part of the book contains an extended treatment of "species" counterpoint in two, three, and four parts, as well as counterpoint in more than four parts, and specific discussions of the canon, the motet, and the Mass. Throughout, the text is generously supplied with musical examples―exercises, solutions, and illustrations, including many by the great composers. For this edition, the distinguished scholar Alfred Mann has contributed a new foreword to Jeppesen's classic study. Now available in paperback for the first time, it will be welcomed by musicians, composers, theorists, musicologists―any student of counterpoint and the Western musical tradition.


Author: Knud Jeppesen
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 03/27/1992
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.14w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780486270364

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