Thakar, Markand, 1955-
Counterpoint : fundamentals of music making /
Markand Thakar.
- New Haven [CT] : Yale University Press, (c)1990.
- 1 online resource (xxii, 312 pages) : music.
Includes bibliographies and index.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""ONE: PRIMORDIAL LINE""; ""Elements of Line""; ""Stepwise Motion""; ""Discrete Participation""; ""Unitary Apprehension""; ""Attributes of a Tone""; ""Stepwise Foundation""; ""Addendum: The Minor Mode""; ""Cantus Firmus""; ""TWO: TWO-PART COUNTERPOINT""; ""Conjunct Lines""; ""Harmonic Intervals""; ""Addendum: Balance""; ""Conjunction""; ""Primordial Lines""; ""Independence""; ""Unitary Apprehension""; ""First Species""; ""THREE: DISSONANCE""; ""Elements of Dissonance""; ""Passing Tones""; ""Neighbor Tones"" ""Successive Dissonances""""Cambiatas""; ""Dissonant Suspensions""; ""Second Species""; ""Third Species""; ""Fourth Species""; ""FOUR: RHYTHMIC VARIETY""; ""Characteristics of Rhythmic Variety""; ""Longer and Shorter Note Values""; ""Diverse Note Values""; ""Successive Short Note Values""; ""Fifth Species""; ""FIVE: THREE-PART COUNTERPOINT""; ""Three Conjunct Lines""; ""Triads""; ""Conjunction""; ""Primordial Lines""; ""Independence""; ""Unitary Apprehension""; ""First Species""; ""Second Species""; ""Third Species""; ""Fourth Species""; ""Fifth Species""; ""SIX: MIXED SPECIES"" ""Conjunct Lines in Mixed Species""""Consonant Agents""; ""Multileveled Agency""; ""Implied Harmony""; ""Compound Melody""; ""Type 1""; ""Type 2""; ""Type 3""; ""Type 4""; ""SEVEN: CONSEQUENCES AND APPLICATIONS""; ""Consequences of Agency""; ""Performance""; ""Musical Passages""; ""Preliminary Considerations""; ""Passage A""; ""Passage B""; ""Functional Bass""; ""Whole Works""; ""Appendix: Write-Throughs""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""
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Counterpoint.
Counterpoint.
Electronic Books.
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