Counterpoint in Composition: The Study of Voice Leading (McGraw-Hill Series in Music) - Hardcover

Schacheter, C.; Salzer, Felix

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070544972 ISBN 13: 9780070544970

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, 1969

Synopsis

The music from the past is far from dead. It lives, first of all, in the interplay between the performer and the sensitive listener. There still exists a considerable number of young performing musicians who are anxious to deepen their understanding of the music that, after all, constitutes the bulk of their repertory.

In addition, that music continues to have meaning for those composers who recognize that an understanding of its inner workings can be an invaluable help in attaining craftmanship regardless of their particular mode of expression. Some of them attempt to forge their own connections with the past and believe that some aspects of earlier music might emerge transformed in a still unknown musical language of the future.

These points of view are in accord with the aim of this book; musicians must maintain contact with the music of the past. This book is for teachers and students who share this outlook.

About this title

From the Back Cover

'Counterpoint in Composition' began life not as a book, but as a collection of examples from the literature. Dr. Salzer and Dr. Schachter assembled it to show the connections between the simple procedures of species counterpoint and the complexities of composition, an approach to counterpoint deriving from the work of Heinrich Schenker.

About the Author

The late Felix Salzer was a Professor at Queens College, City University of New York, and the author of Structural Hearing. Carl Schachter is a Professor at Queens College and at the Mannes School of Music and is the author of many essays on music theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Publication date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070544972
• ISBN 13: 9780070544970
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 478