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Books on composition as insightful as Goeschius [closed]
I've been a magpie for books on composition/orchestration, and it seems to me that the books written by Percy Goeschius are the best, most insightful and well-written that I've come across. Hia ...
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Are consecutive 3rds allowed in harmony?
In harmony, is it okay if there are consecutive 3rds in ii-V progression in two different bars?
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How is this bar an example of the rule given in Tonal Counterpoint text?
The rule given in Green and Jones' The Principles and Practice of Tonal Counterpoint is:
The seventh may move into another voice before resolving, but when the
harmony changes it will almost ...
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What determines if counterpoint is good or bad?
I am currently reading through the Complete Musician and the current subject is second species counterpoint. I've written about 5 or 6 counterpoints so far in first and second species.
That said ...
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Is this a hidden consecutive fifth?
I am working through some beginner counterpoint exercises, and I wrote this harmony above part of a cantus firmus:
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By my understanding this should be a 3rd to a 5th, which should be acceptable, ...
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What is the purpose of voice-crossing here?
I'm starting to work through Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum. For the two-voice, first-species, Phrygian-mode, lower-voice exercise (p. 36 on the first Google result for "Fux Gradus"), Aloys says that he ...
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Counter-example of counterpoint technique?
I'm trying to fully understand the concept that "Counterpoint" entails... but I can't seem to think any situation in which a counterpoint is not present on a song/piece/whatever.
If counterpoint is ...
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Can you remove harmony from counterpoint?
For example, two melodies at once but one melody is only on the on beats while the other is only on the off beats, does this remove the harmony from counterpoint?
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Dissonances and harmony
When I listen to Bach, Handel or Vivaldi (especially Baroque composers) every single note seems to fit there perfectly I mean pretty consonant to their location.
As I was trying to learn tonal ...
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Are counterpoint and harmony mutually exclusive?
I understand that harmony and counterpoint are more tools than set of rules to follow, the first works vertically, enhancing a single melody line, while the other combines multiple melody lines in a ...
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Why do I need to learn counterpoint if I know harmony?
When I search for differences between harmony and counterpoint I usually read that in the end there's harmony in counterpoint.
Can't I learn just harmony and get the same results ?
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Why does Fux use F# in his counterpoint to a firmus written in G mixolydian
In the given image below, Fux writes a counterpoint to a cantus firmus given to him as part of his studies by his fictitious teacher Aloysious.
A rule that is often emphasised is that one should ...
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A synthetic modulation is described as?
The same synthetic scale is moved from one tonal centre to another
A change of synthetic scale whilst the tonal centre remains the same
Two or more synthetic scales on the same tonal centre
The same ...
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Is there some trick for counterpoint beyond 2 voices?
I really suck at chord harmony, so whenever I compose, I tend to use counterpoint a lot.
Counterpoint is somewhat easy when you just have two voices. Because I just compose for fun, I generally do ...
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Accidentals in First Species Counterpoint
On page 39 of Alfred Mann's The Study of Counterpoint there is a passage concerning justification of using accidentals in first species counterpoint.
Here is the passage:
Aloys: [...]but why did you ...
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