Questions tagged [counterpoint]
Questions relating to the uses, history, types, or analysis of counterpoint.
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What does "potential dissonance" or "potential consonance" mean?
The passage below is quoted from the paper, "Seven Steps to Heaven--A Species Approach to Twentieth Century Analysis and Composition" by Henry Martin.
It should be emphasized that the ic-0 ...
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AI composing counterpoint?
I have heard of computer programs and AI that try to compose music based off the basic counterpoint rules; are there currently any out in the web?
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How do “voice-leading”, “part-writing”, “polyphony” and “counterpoint” differ?
What are the differences in meaning and usage between “voice-leading”, “part-writing”, “polyphony” and “counterpoint”?
According to Wikipedia:
Voice-leading is “the term used to describe the linear ...
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Intervals and cantus firmus
I have just started learning music theory and I have learnt intervals and I have gotten up to learning the cantus firmus.
I have two questions: On the piano keys, when I count interval steps, am I ...
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Why is there a sharp and a natural over this Bb?
I'm studying a piece by palestrina (Agnus Dei is the title of this piece, but I'm not sure of the name of the work) and in this 3rd bar we have a sharp in the parenthesis and a natural over the B, ...
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Why does three-part counterpoint have to end on a chord with a major third?
I am currently studying Counterpoint using Knud Jeppesen's 'Counterpoint' book. In the Three-Part Counterpoint chapter, it says that in the final chord, the third should under all circumstances be ...
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Linear Harmony = neo-medievalism?
How much can linear harmony (the Tonnetz, Neo-Riemannian theory) be explained, more than a century later, as a correction from overly vertical (chordal, Roman numeral, late 1700's) organization to ...
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Which exercises should I practice to sing in counterpoint to my playing?
I play guitar and piano, and have been writing more complex vocal melodies than I can perform.
I can work out ahead of time what I want to sing in relation to, say, a guitar line, but I'm having ...
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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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Example of counterpoint
This is a musical composition from an Indian movie in the late 80s. Please excuse my ignorance of musical theory in general here but I am curious to know if this is an effective display of ...
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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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A question about fugues
I am trying to compose a fuga for two voices. What I want to ask is, is it a requirement to be the same for the countersubjects that come after subject in exposition part? I mean, are the firstly ...
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In Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum, why is the B always flat in the exercises done in the F mode?
In Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum, when in the F mode (lydian), the B is always flat, at least in the first and second species examples. The cantus firmus proposed by master Aloys avoids the note ...
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Counterpoint without a leading tone?
In minuet in A minor by Johann Krieger, it doesn't have a major 7th going to the octave, but it has the fifth going to the tonic and the tonic playing an octave above on both notes. Is this a common ...
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