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Convertible Counterpoint in the Strict Style - Softcover

Serge Ivanovitch Taneiev

 
9780828321846: Convertible Counterpoint in the Strict Style
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0828321841 ISBN 13: 9780828321846
Publisher: Branden Books, 2007

Synopsis

Convertible Counterpoint in the Strict Style by Serge Taneiev was used as text by many great Russian and western composers of classical music, from Rachmaninoff to Saminsky, to Piston, to Sabaneiev, to Clapp, and Stavinsky. This is the first paperpack edition of the English translation of the most distinguished teatise ever written on musical composition. G. Ackley Brower translated the manual from the original Russian, and Serge Koussevitzky wrote the Introduction.

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About the Author

Serge Ivanovitch Taneiev (1856-1915), pupil, friend, and critic of Tchaikovsky, succeeded the latter as pro-fessor of instrumentation at the Moscow Conservatory, followed Nicholas Rubinstein as chief professor of pi-anoforte. On Tchaikovsky's recommendation, he was made Director of the Conservatory in 1885. His works in-clude four symphonies; one opera, Oresteia; one cantata, John of Damascus; and works for chamber-music. His greatest contribution was in the field of the theory of composition; among his students were Rachmaninoff, Gliere, Scriabin, Siloti, Spendiaroff, Vassilenko and Sabaneiev

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Publisher
Branden Books
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0828321841
ISBN 13 
9780828321846
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
360
Editor
Adolph Caso