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    Counterpoint Guide  |  "Counterpoint is the art of combining melodic lines. This involves consideration of the individual melodies and attention to their interaction as they unfold together through time."  |  ADVICE:  Ignore the dead links  |  Music 160

    Rules of Counterpoint--The GSA Music Theory Department  |  The Three Commandments of Partwriting  |  Chord Progressions  |   Ranges of Voices  |   Types of Motion  |  Rules for Doubling  |  Open and Closed Position  |  ET Productions

    Online Contrapuntal Exercises for Music 3113  |  Onscreen versions in Sibelius format; PostScript versions in Score notation   |  GJC

    Species Counterpoint Overview  |  al 5 species  |  listen  |  see music  |  Why Study Species Counterpoint?  |  Important Terms  |  duke.edu

    The Counterpoint Page  |   Punctus contra punctum  |   Punctus contra punctum  |  Glossary of contrapuntal terms  |  Treatises on Counterpoint  |  About Contrapuntus.com  |

    The Music of Jeff Harrington  |  Music that is tonal and intensely contrapuntal inspired by New Orleans and classical music traditions. |   Complete Album - Obliterature - Available for Download  |  Parnasse.com

    Music Theory Online - Counterpoint  |  brief decription, also downloadable pdf - full article  |

    Recommended Books for the Study of Composition, Orchestration and Electronic Music Production  |  Jerry Gerber

    Counterpoint  |  excellent full page explanation with many  link-terms  to assist understanding  |  StudioReview

    NetStoreUSA  |  Sheet Music publication  |  Elements Of 18Th Century Counterpoint  |  Bob Dingley

    Encyclopedia  | Counterpoint  |  Species counterpoint   |  Contrapuntal Derivations  |  External links  /  article links  |  TheFreeDictionary

    Counterpoint   |  1 Species counterpoint  |  2 Contrapuntal Derivations  |  3 Dissonant counterpoint  |  4 External links  |  Wikipedia

    Schenker's Theory of Counterpoint  |  Consonance & dissonance  |  2 part counterpoint  | Species Counterpoint  |  SchenkerGuide

    Definition of Counterpoint  |  Classical Music Archives

    Online Scores for Study and Analysis  |  Plato.Arcadia.ca

    Explains, using rounds  |  lots of sound clips  |  music notation examples  |  MS Miller

    music theory counterpoint  |  movement types  |

    COUNTERPOINT:  | Bach  |  Beethoven  |  Mozart  |  Palestrina  |  Cesar Franck  |  Joseph Fux  |  Vivaldi  |  Frank Bridge  |  John Williams  |  Paul Hindemith  |  Schoenberg  |  Anton von Webern  |  Franz Schubert Robert Schumann  |  William Schuman  |  William Byrd  |  Franz Liszt  |  Chopin  |  Toru Takemitsu Pierre Boulez  |  Karlheinz Stockhausen  |  Igor stravinsky  |  Mahler  |  Walter Piston  |  Telemann  |  Grieg  |  Brahms  |  Wagner  |  Bartok  |  Rachmaninoff  |  Prokofiev  |  Albinoni  |  Elliot Carter  |  Benjamin Britten  |  Gyorgy Ligeti  |  John Adams  |  Bruckner  |  Carlos Chavez  |  Corigliano  |  George Crumb  |  Roger Sessions  |  Faure  |  Elgar  |  Philip Glass  |  Handel  |  Michael Tippett  |  Harry Partch  |  Purcell  |  Scarlatti  |  Scriabin  |  Shostakovich  |  Sibelius  |  Morton Subotnick    |  Tartini  |  Heitor Villa-Lobos  |  Edgard Varese  |  Louis Vierne

    Excellent, thorough article resource page! - esp. for composers!  |  The Relationship Between Contrapuntal and Serial Composition Techniques As Seen in Works of Webern and Stravinsky   |  R Kelly

    Counterpoint  | Piano  |  Organ  |  winds  |   brass  |  strings  |  string quartet  |  symphony  |  choral  |  Google Search

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  • Gradus / Leo Kraft
  • Study of Counterpoint / John J. Fux
  • Counterpoint in Composition / Felix Salzer
  • The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint / Tom Benjamin
  • A Practical Approach to Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint / Robert Gauldin
  • Modal and Tonal Counterpoint / Harold Owen
  • Counterpoint Workbook / Kent Wheeler Kennan
  • Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint / David Yearsley
  • A Practical Approach to Sixteenth-Century Counterpoint / Robert Gauldin
  • Counterpoint / Walter Piston
  • Counterpoint / Knud Jeppesen
  • Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style / Peter Schubert
  • Baroque Counterpoint / Peter Schubert
  • Coherence, Counterpoint, Instrumentatio, Instruction / Arnold Schoenberg 
  • Studies in the art of counterpoint / S Macpherson 
  • Counterpoint / Markand Thakar
  • Convertible Counterpoint in the Strict Style / Serge I. Taneiev 
  • Counterpoint, Composition and Musica Ficta / Margaret Bent 
  • Eighteenth-Century Imitative Counterpoint / Wallace Berry
  • The Shaping Forces in Music / Ernst Toch
  • Counterpoint / Heinrich Schenker
  • The structure of music / Robert Erickson
  • African Polyphony and Polyrhythm / Simha Arom
  • Polyphonic Composition / O. Swindale
  • Counterpoint / Henry Martin
  • Contrapuntal ear-training / Irving Gingrich
  • Contrapunctus / Prosdocimus 
  • A New Look at 16th-Century Counterpoint / Margarita Merriman
  • A Treatise on Counterpoint, Canon and Fugue
  • The art of counterpoint / Johannes Tinctoris
  • A Treatise on Counterpoint and Fugue / Luigi Cherubini 
  •  Counterpoint / Frederick Bridge
  • Direct Approach to Counterpoint in 16th Century Style / Gustave Soderland
  • The Technique of Canon / Hugo Norden
  • Preliminary Exercises in Counterpoint / Arnold Schoenberg 
  • A counterpoint manual / Ernest Kanitz
  • Elementary Harmony and Counterpoint / Eric Rollison 
  • Essentials of Eighteenth Century Counterpoint / Neale Mason
  • Harmony and Counterpoint / Bell Yung
  • Counterpoint  |  Henry Martin

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  • Ludi Leonum / Paul Hindemith
  • Double Counterpoint And Canon / Ebenezer Prout 
  • Twentieth Century Counterpoint / Humphrey Searle 
  • Applied Strict Counterpoint / Charles Kitson 
  • Counterpoint simplified / Francis York 
  • An Introduction to Tonal Theory / Peter Westergaard 
  • Counterpoint applied in the invention, fugue, canon / Percy Goetschius 
  • Modern Academic Counterpoint / Charles William Pearce
  • The Technique of Canon / Hugo Norden
  • The Musicians Theory Book / Asger Hamerik
  • Diatonic Model Counterpoint / Ralph Dunstan
  • 350 exercises in harmony, counterpoint and modulation / S Macpherson 
  • Syllabus in compositional techniques / Robert Cogan
  • Practical lessons in melody-writing / Arthur C Edwards
  • Late Renaissance counterpoint / Thomas Putsche
  • Principles of counterpoint / V. Howard Talley
  • Living musical theory, a comprehensive course / Henry N Switten
  • Elementary 18th-19th century counterpoint / Percy Goetschius
  • Two-part 16th century counterpoint / Lois Lautner
  • A treatise on harmony / John Pepusch
  • Elements of music, harmony and counterpoint, rhythm / T. H Bertenshaw 
  • What is music? / Isaac Rice
  • The instant composer / Peter L Alexander
  • The organization of music / Donald O Johnston
  • Improvised vocal counterpoint in the late renaissance / Ernest T Ferand 
  • Invertible counterpoint and canon / C. H Kitson
  • Harmony Through Counterpoint / Douglas Green
  • Seventeenth-century contrapuntal theory in Germany / Myron R Falck 
  • Harmony - Baroque to contemporary / R. Evan Copley
  • Harmony and counterpoint, with exercises / Thomas Bertenshaw 
  • The self-instructor in musical composition, and thoroughbass / B Woodbury 
  • Polyphonic forms and devices by contemporary composers / Dorothy Slepian 
  •  Examples illustrating the development of melodic line / Gustave Soderlund
  • Combined and Florid Counterpoint / G. J. Bennett
  • Automatic species counterpoint / Bill Schottstaedt
  • Modern tonal counterpoint in two points / Houston Bright
  • The self-instructor in musical composition / I. B Woodbury
  • The improvised melodic line / Michael Longo
  • The melodic line / Richard Church
  • How to Write a Melody / Alexander Borisoff
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  • Harmony and Voice Leading / Edward Aldwell
  • Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns / Nicolas Slonimsky
  • Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory / Joseph N. Straus 
  • Twentieth-Century Harmony / Vincent Persichetti
  • Lessons in Music Writing / Boris Berlin
  • Examples Of Four Part Writing From Figured Basses / James Lyon
  • Five lesson course in two-part writing / John C Brydson
  • Beginning to Compose / John Davies
  • Modern Jazz Voicings / Ted Pease
  • Voicings For Jazz Keyboard / Frank Mantooth
  • Jazz Piano Voicings / Rob Mullins
  • Voicing and Comping for Jazz Vibraphone / Thomas L. Davis
  • Keyboard Voicings / Kevin King
  • Quartal Harmony & Voicings for Guitar / Tom Floyd
  • Organ Voicing & Tuning / Charles A. Daniell
  • Counterpoint in the Style of J.S. Bach
  • Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint / David Yearsley
  • Polyphonic Composition / O. Swindale
  • A Comparison of the Fugues of Bach and Handel / Cora Bonolom
  • The Technique of Byrd's Vocal Polyphony / Herbert Andrews
  • Counterpoint: Polyphonic Vocal Style of the 16th Century / Knud Jeppesen
  • The sacred vocal counterpoint of the sixteenth century / Samuel H Scott
  • Improvised vocal counterpoint in the late renaissance / Ernest T Ferand 
  • Beethoven's Studies in thorough-bass, counterpoint and the art of scientific composition / Beethoven
  • Mozart's practical elements of thorough bass / Mozart
  • Examples illustrating the development of melodic line / Gustave Soderlund 
  • Examples of Gregorian chant & works by Orlandus Lasso / Gustave Soderlund 
  • Strict counterpoint in Palestrina style / Alan Bush
  • Italian counterpoint / Ward Hellstrom / Robert Jones 
  • Contrapuntal Harmonic Technique of the Eighteenth / A.I. McHose 
  • Workbook for Harmony and its contrapuntal treatment
  • The theory and practice of tone relations / Percy Goetschius
  • Basic contrapuntal technique / H. Owen Reed
  • A Manual of Sixteenth Century Contrapuntal Style / Charlotte Smith
  • Rhythmic & Contrapuntal Structures in the Music of Arthur Honegger / Keith Waters 
  • Contrapuntal ear-training / Irving Gingrich
  • Contrapuntal Harmony for Beginners / Charles Kitson
  • Modern contrapuntal technique / Gordon Delamont
  • Remarks on Hindemith's contrapuntal technique / Hans Tischler
  • Examples illustrating the development of melodic line /  Gustave Soderlund
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