Terms & Concepts

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Online Dictionaries

1. Grove/Oxford {Grove} - *
2. Harvard Dictionary of Music {HD} - *

* - Available to  students via USC's proxy server login

Open Access Glossaries

1. Earsense, Fugue Vocabulary {Earsense.org}
2. Edwards, Puzzle Canon Glossary {PuzzleCanon.com}
3. Kerman, Art of Fugue Glossary {Open JSTOR} (Kerman 2015)

Terms & Concepts

1. Acrostic {WP}
2. Alteration {HD}
   
3. Analysis {Grove}
4. Bach monogram {WP}
5. Bach motif: Bb–A–C–H {WP}
6. Bach motto: Soli Deo gloria {WP}
7. Bach numbers: 14, 41, etc. (see Tatlow 2015)
   
8. Cadence {Grove}
9. Cambiata {HD}
   
10. Canon {HD; Grove}
11. Chaconne {Grove}
12. Chorale {Grove; WP}
    
13. Chorale prelude {Grove; WP}
    
14. Clefs {WP}
15. Consonance and Dissonance {HD}
    
16. Continuo {Grove}
17. Counterpoint {Grove}
18. Compound melody {GB} (Davidian 2015)
19. Corpus analysis (Giraud et al. 2017)
    
20. Cross relation {HD}
21. Double counterpoint, see Invertible counterpoint
22. Dux/Comes (Lat., 'leader/follower') {Grove}
23. Durchführung (Ger., 'leading through') {Grove}
24. Figured bass, see Thoroughbass
    
25. Fortspinnung (Ger., 'spinning out') {Grove}
26. Fugue {Grove}
• Exposition {Grove}
  
• Subject {Grove}
• Answer {Grove}
• Countersubject {Grove}
  
• Episode {Grove}
• Stretto {Grove}
• Double fugue {HD; Grove}
  
• Triple fugue {Grove}
  
27. Fundamental bass {Grove}
28. Handexemplar (Ger.) (Wolf 1976)
    
29. Harmony {Grove}
30. Historical pitch (Rotem & Keller 2017)
    
31. Key signature {HD}
• Modal, or partial, signature
32. Ground bass {HD}
    
33. Grundgestalt (Ger., 'basic shape') {Grove}
34. Imitation {Grove}
35. Invertible counterpoint {Grove; HD}
36. Invention {Grove}
37. Mass {Grove}
38. Mizler Society {WP}
    
39. Mode {Grove}
40. Motet {Grove}
41. Notation {Grove}
42. Note values: British vs. American {WP}
43. Organum {Grove}
44. Part-writing [voice-leading] {Grove}
45. Partimento [It., division] {HD}
46. Partita {Grove}
47. Partial (key) signature {HD}
    
48. Passacaglia {Grove}
49. Pitch notation
• American Standard (WP)
• Helmholtz {WP}
  
50. Plainchant {Grove}
51. Prima pratica and seconda pratica (It.) {Grove}
52. Ricercare {Grove}
53. Serialism {Grove}
54. Signum congruentiae (Lat., 'sign of congruence') {HD}, or Presa (It.) {Grove}
55. Sinfonia {Grove}
    
56. Solmization {Grove}
    • European medieval and Renaissance systems {Grove}
    • Hexachord {HDM}
57. Sonata {Grove}
58. Species counterpoint {Grove}
59. Step progression {GB} (Davidian 2015)
    
60. Suite {Grove}
61. Texture {Grove}
    1. Monophony {Grove}
    2. Polyphony {Grove}
    3. Homophony {Grove}
• See also: Heterophony {Grove}
62. Thoroughbass, or basso continuo {Grove}
    See also: Figured bass and Partimento
    
63. Trio sonata {Grove}
64. Toccata {Grove}
65. Tonality {Grove}
66. Triple counterpoint, see Invertible counterpoint
67. Urtext {WP; see also Bärenreiter}
68. Vademecum (Lat.) {WP}
69. Variations {Grove}
70. Well Temperament {WP; Xenharmonic Wiki}
    

Links

Early Music Sources (EMS) – https://www.earlymusicsources.com

Grove Music Online (Grove) – https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic

Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia (WP) – https://www.wikipedia.org

References

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

Giraud, Mathieu, Richard Groult, Emmanuel Leguy, Florence Levé. 2015. "Computational Fugue Analysis." Computer Music Journal 39/2 (2): 77–96. {JSTOR}

Grove Music Online; Oxford Music Online (Grove/Oxford). 2022. Oxford University Press. Available online at: <http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com>.

Kerman, Joseph. 2015/2005. Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715–1750. Berkeley: University of California Press.{Full-text: Luminosa; JSTOR}

Randel, Don Michael, ed. 2003. The Harvard Dictionary of Music, 4th ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. {HDM}

Rotem, Elam and Johannes Keller. 2017. "Historical Pitch??" Early Music Sources. Available online at: <https://www.earlymusicsources.com/youtube/historical-pitch>.

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

Wolff, Christoph . 1976. "Bach's 'Handexemplar' of the Goldberg Variations: A New Source." Journal of the American Musicological Society 29/2 (Summer 1976): 224-241. {JSTOR}