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• Syllabus, Spring 2002
  
• Guide to readings

Index of documents for Music 103:

Counterpoint: Term and Technique, 10th-18th Century

Melody vs. Harmony

Species counterpoint:[1]

• cantus firmus
• first species
  first-species example (listen)
• second species
  second-species example (listen)
• third species
  third-species example 1 (listen)
  third-species example 2 (listen)
• fourth species
  fourth-species example 1 (listen)
  fourth-species example 2 (listen)
• On the relationship between species and 18th-century counterpoint, read:
  • David Mancini, "Using Species Counterpoint in the Undergraduate Theory Curriculum," Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 3.2 (1989), 205-219.
  • Robert Gauldin, "Fux to Bach: Bridging the Gap," Indiana Theory Review 14.2 (1993), 45-72.

• Scaffolding elaboration 1

Invention

• History
• Introduction
• Motive and Countermotive
• Exposition
• Linear Intervallic Patterns (LIPs)
• Overall Form
• Sound files (MIDI) of the Inventions:
  • Site 1
  • Site 2
  • Rothfarb's model Invention in B minor
  • Rothfarb's B minor Invention with analytical annotations (mm. 1-10)
  • Rothfarb's B minor Invention with analytical annotations (mm. 11-17)
  • B Minor Invention: scaffolding for mm. 3-6 (modulatory passage)
  • B Minor Invention: scaffolding for mm. 12-16 (modulatory passage)

• Discussion
• Marpurg's Example
• Rothfarb's Example: A
• Rothfarb's Example: B
• J.S. Bach, Fugue 21 (Bb Major), WTC 1 (an example of triple counterpoint)

• Brief history
• Subject and Answer
• More Details on Subject and Tonal Answer
  • HTML version
  • PDF version (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• Exposition
• Sound files (MIDI) of the Fugues:
  • MIDI WTC
• Rothfarb's Model Fugue Expositions
  • Model 1 (invertible counterpoint demonstration: subject and countersubject)
  • Model 2 (invertible counterpoint demonstration: subject and countersubject)
  • Model 3
  • Model 4

Selected Web Resources

• Online Information concerning Counterpoint
• Fugue: Introduction and History
• The Canons and Fugues of J.S. Bach
• Fugue and Fugal Process
• Anatomy of a Fugue