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- Printable Staves
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A preview chapter from David Nivans's Finding The Right Pitch II: A Guide To The Study Of Basic Harmony is available here as a free download. This chapter is a 57-page review of music fundamentals distilled from Finding The Right Pitch: A Guide To The Study Of Music Fundamentals.
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- Printable Guidelines for Modal Counterpoint in Two Parts
Below are guidelines for two-part counterpoint in the style of the sixteenth century, species one and two. More guidelines will be posted, but not in the near future. In the meantime, we commend a few resources for further study:
Finally, we strongly recommend that you acquire some knowledge of music fundamentals before attempting to meet the challenge of writing species counterpoint as outlined in the free downloads below, for the information offered here is not without its difficulties.
- Jeppesen, Knud. Counterpoint: The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth Century (New York: Dover, 1992).
- Salzer, Felix and Carl Schachter. Counterpoint In Composition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969).
- Schenker, Heinrich. Counterpoint. 2 volumes. Edited by John Rothgeb (New York: Schirmer, 1987).
Finally, we strongly recommend that you acquire some knowledge of music fundamentals before attempting to meet the challenge of writing species counterpoint as outlined in the free downloads below, for the information offered here is not without its difficulties.
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