BAIN MUSC 726A
The Art of Counterpoint
Terms & Concepts
"The Greek language itself made no distinction between art and
craft: both were called technē; a great work of art was simply an
exceptional piece of workmanship (aristourgēma)."
– Western painting, in
Britannica
Academic {
BA}
- Auditory scene analysis (Bregman 1990)
- Basso continuo (abbr. continuo) {BA;
Grove}
- Bicinium {WP}
- Cadence {BA}
- Canon {BA;
HD;
Grove}
- Round {BA}
- Prolation canon {WP}
- Puzzle canon {WP}
- Multiple canon
- Double canon, triple canon, etc.
- Cantus firmus (Lat.) {BA}
- Chanson {BA;
Grove}
- Chant, plainchant, or plainsong {BA;
Grove}
- Gregorian chant {BA;
Grove}
- Final {Grove}
- Mode (see Mode)
- Reciting tone {WP}
- Syllabic, neumatic, melismatic
- Chorale {BA;
Grove}
- Clausula {BA;
Grove}
- Counterpoint {BA;
HD;
Grove;
OB}
- 16th-Century Counterpoint (Benjamin
2005; Gauldin 2013a)
- Species Counterpoint {HD}
(Fux 1725)
- 18th-Century Counterpoint (Benjamin
2003; Gauldin 2013b)
- Free Counterpoint {Grove}
(Kennan 1999)
- 20th-Century Counterpoint (Owen 1992;
See also: Searle 1954)
- Dissonant Counterpoint {Grove;
Spilker
2011}
- Linear Counterpoint (Kurth 1917; Galkin 2021)
- Twelve-Tone Counterpoint {Schoenberg
1984; Krenek 1940; Webern
1963)
- See also: Twelve-tone music
- Polyphony in Popular Music (Hanson
2024)
- Form {BA}
- Before 1600
- Formes fixes {WP}
(Taruskin and Gibbs 2012)
- Ballade: aab[C]
- Rondeau: ABaAabAB
- Virelai: AbbaA
- Trecento song forms {WP}
(Taruskin and Gibbs 2012, p. 119)
- Ballata: AbbaA
- Madrigal: aa[a]b
- After 1600
- Binary form {BA}
- Ternary form (BA)
- Rondo form {BA}
- Sonata form {BA}
- Variation form {BA}
- Free-part style (Ger. Freistimigkeit)
- Fugue {BA;
HD;
Grove}
- Precursors of fugue:
- Simple fugue
- Multiple fugue
- Double fugue, triple fugue, etc.
- Fugato
- Imitation {HD;
Grove}
- Invention {BA;
Grove}
- Invertible Counterpoint {HD}
- Double counterpoint
- Triple counterpoint
- Isorhythm {BA;
Grove}
- Layer {Grove}
- Textural layers
- Polyphonic layers
- Madrigal {BA}
- Mass {BA;
Grove}
- Cantus firmus mass
- Parody mass
- Paraphrase mass
- Melody {BA;
Grove}
- Micropolyphony {WP}
- Minimalism {Grove}
- Mode {Grove}
- Modulation {BA}
- Monody {BA}
- Motet {BA;
Grove}
- Music of the:
- Renaissance {HD}
- Baroque {HD}
- Classical period {HD}
- Romantic period {HD}
- Twentieth-Century {HD}
- Notation {Grove}
- Organum {BA;
Grove}
- Partimento {Grove}
- Recitative {BA}
- Rhythmic modes {BA;
Grove}
- Style analysis {Grove}
(see LaRue 1970)
- Sound
- Harmony
- Melody
- Rhythm
- Growth
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- Text influence
- Symphony {BA;
Grove}
- technē (Greek)
- See Western painting {BA}
- Texture {HD;
Grove}
- Monophony {BA}
- Polyphony {BA}
- Homophony {BA}
- Homorhythmic {HD}
- Melody and accompaniment
- Hetrophony {BA}
- Twelve-tone music
- Serialism {BA;
HD;
Grove}
- Serial operations: P, R, I & RI
- Pointillism {WP}
- Klangfarbenmelodie {WP}
- Voice leading (see Huron 2016)
See also:
- BAIN
MUSC 529 Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint: Terms & Concepts
- BAIN MUSC
726C The Counterpoint of J.S. Bach: Terms & Concepts
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
- Britannica Academic {BA}
- Harvard Dictionary {HD}
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- Grove Music Online {Grove}
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- Wikipedia {WP}
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Reference
See
MUSC 726A Bibliography
Taruskin,
Richard and Christopher H. Gibbs. 2012. The Oxford History of
Western Music, College Edition. New York: Oxford University
Press. {GB}
Updated: June
16, 2024