BAIN MUSC 529
Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint

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Benjamin, Thomas. 2005. The Craft of Modal Counterpoint, 2nd ed. New York: Routledge. {GB; Full text: Ebook Central}

_______________. 2003. The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint, 2nd ed. New York: Routledge. {GB; Full text: Ebook Central}
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_________________. 1992. "Règle de l'Octave" in Thorough-Bass Theory and Practice." Acta Musicologica 64/2 (July-December 1992): 91–117 {JSTOR}

Davidian, Teresa. 2015. Tonal Counterpoint for the 21st-Century Musician: An Introduction. New York: Rowan & Littlefield. {GB}

Derr, Ellwood. 1981. "The Two-Part Inventions: Bach's Composers' Vademecum." Music Theory Spectrum 3 (Spring 1981): 26–48. {JSTOR}

Fux, Johann Joseph. 1965/1725. The Study of Counterpoint from Johann Joseph Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum, translated and edited by Alfred Mann. New York: W. W. Norton. {GB}

Gauldin, Robert. 2013/1995. A Practical Approach to 18th Century Counterpoint. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press. {GB1; GB2}

_____________. 2004. "An Introduction to Species Counterpoint," in Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music, 2nd ed. New York: Norton, pp. A14-25. {GB}

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_________________. 2007. Music in the Galant Style. New York: Oxford University Press. {GB; Ebook Central}

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___________________________. 2015. The Principles and Practice of Tonal Counterpoint. London: Routledge. {GB}

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Remeš, Derek. 2021. The Art of Preluding: Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Preludes in J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier I & II. Cazenovia, NY: The Leupold Foundation. {Intro.: YouTube}

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Schubert, Peter and Christoph Neidhöfer. 2023/2006. Baroque Counterpoint, Expanded Edition. Buffalo: SUNY Press. {GB1; GB2}

Sprick, Jan Phillipp. "Sequences: Between Affirmation and Destruction of Tonality." Music Theory Online 24/2 (December 2018). {MTO}

Stoia, Nicholas. 2015. "Triple Counterpoint and Six-Four Chords in Bach's Sinfonia in F Minor." Music Analysis 34/3 (October 2015): 305–334. {JSTOR}

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Tatlow, Ruth. 2015. Bach's Numbers: Compositional Proportion and Significance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {GB; Full text: EBSCOhost}

Tymoczko, Dmitri.
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Yearsley, David. 2002. Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {GB}

Zarlino, Gioseffo. 1976. The Art of Counterpoint: Part III of Le Instistutioni harmoniche, translated by Guy A. Marco and Claude V. Palisca. New York: Norton. {GB}



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