Eighteenth-Century Baroque Counterpoint
[Tonal Counterpoint]

Sixteenth-Century Vocal Counterpoint | Course Description
Special Studies in Music History | Course Description

Course Description (contents)

Other Useful Web Sites for Eighteenth-Century Baroque Counterpoint:

The Score Viewer, Score Preview
Free Download:
Ghostview PostScript Viewer [requires Ghostscript as well]
Free Download (both):
The Sibelius Viewer, Scorch
Free Download:
Sibelius
Adobe Acrobat Reader (for PDF)
Free Download:
MuseScore
Free Download:
Finale
Noteflight
Online WWW application
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Online Contrapuntal Exercises for Eighteenth-Century Baroque Counterpoint

[ Introductory Exercises | Exercises in Two Parts | Subjects ]

Introductory Exercises

• Preliminary Exercises [GIF files: page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5] [PDF file]
• Exercise 1 [GIF file] [PDF file] [Postscript version]
• Exercise 2 [GIF file] [PDF file] [Postscript version]
• Exercise 3 [GIF file] [PDF file] [Postscript version]
• Exercise 4 [GIF file] [PDF file] [Postscript version]
• Exercise 5 [GIF file] [PDF file] [Postscript version]
• [FTP directory containing the Score, Sibelius, GIF, & Postscript files, to download. (when there, Right-Click on file name)]

  [Note: These GIF files are too large to print in a WWW browser such as Netscape. To print, each GIF file should be saved to disk, then loaded into a viewer such as Microsoft Photo Editor.]

  Exercises in Two Parts
• Exercise 1 [GIF file] [PDF file] [Postscript version]
• Exercise 2 [GIF file] [PDF file] [Postscript version]
• Exercise 3 [GIF file] [PDF file] [Postscript version]
• Exercise 4 [GIF file] [PDF file] [Postscript version]
• Exercise 5 [GIF file] [PDF file] [Postscript version]

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• Exercise 6 [GIF file] [PDF file] [Postscript version]
• Exercise 7 [GIF file] [PDF file] [Postscript version]
• Exercise 8 [GIF file] [PDF file] [Postscript version]
• Exercise 9 [GIF files, page 1, 2] [PDF file] [Postscript versions, page 1, 2]
• Exercise 10 [GIF files, page 1, 2] [PDF file] [Postscript versions, page 1, 2]
• Exercise 11 [GIF files, page 1, 2, 3] [PDF file] [Postscript versions, page 1, 2, 3]
• Exercise 12 [GIF files, page 1, 2] [PDF file] [Postscript versions, page 1, 2]
• Exercise 13 [GIF files, page 1, 2] [PDF file] [Postscript versions, page 1, 2, 3]
• Exercise 14 [GIF files, page 1, 2] [PDF file] [Postscript versions, page 1, 2]
• Exercise 15 [GIF files, page 1, 2] [PDF file] [Postscript versions, page 1, 2]
• Exercise 16 [GIF file] [PDF file] [Postscript version]
• [FTP directory containing the Score, Sibelius GIF, & Postscript files, to download. (when there, Right-Click on file name)]
  [Note: These GIF files are too large to print in a WWW browser such as Netscape.
  To print, each GIF file should be saved to disk, then loaded into a viewer such as Microsoft Photo Editor.]

  Subjects (for canzonas, fugues, and other imitative pieces)

• Sibelius file [GIF files, page 1, 2] [PDF file] [Postscript versions, page 1, 2]
• [FTP directory containing the Score, Sibelius GIF, & Postscript files, to download. (when there, Right-Click on file name)]
  [Note: These GIF files are too large to print in a WWW browser such as Netscape.
  To print, each GIF file should be saved to disk, then loaded into a viewer such as Microsoft Photo Editor.]

Online Scores for Study and Analysis

• Viewing Software

Acadia Early Music Archive [GJC]

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Online Information concerning Counterpoint

• Acadia Early Music Resources
• Early Music Resources on the Web
• Vaughan Memorial Library
  • Online Catalogue (WebCat)
  • Iter access via Library [if necessary, click on "I", then scroll down; access only from on-campus networks]
  • ["Iter, meaning a journey or a path in Latin, is a not-for-profit research project with partners in Toronto (the headquarters), New York City, and Tempe. Iter was created for the advancement of learning in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) through the development of online resources."]
• Music Notation Software
• Rhythm and Meter: A Bibliographic Glossary [School of Music at Indiana University]
  • Glossary [an excellent and extensive dictionary of terminology]
  • Bibliography
• Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Glossary
• THEMA [(Music) THEory of the Middle Ages], a hypertextual database!
• Alan Belkin, Principles of Counterpoint
• Musical Forms: Fugue (Classical Music Pages [Matt Boynick]) [brief description from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music]
• The Canons and Fugues of J. S. Bach
  (Dr. Tim Smith, Associate Professor Music Theory, School of Performing Arts, Northern Arizona University)
  [A very extensive site concerning the lives and works of many composers: J.S. Bach and other Baroque and Classical Era Composers.] The following is only a selection of the resources available at this site.
  • Glossary [Brief definitions of an extensive variety of Baroque terms]
  • Anatomy of a Fugue [Rudimentary introduction to Fugal Analysis (with, unfortunately, very few musical examples; though with overall good explanation and terminology definitions).]
  • Fugue and Fugal Process
  • Fugues of the Well Tempered Clavier [Analysis of selected fugues]
  • How to Analyze a Fugue
  • Miscellaneous Bach Analyses
    • Two- and Three-Part Inventions
    • Cantus Firmus Technique (chorale motet, chorale fantasia, chorale variations, chorale partita, chorale fugue, or chorale cantata)
  • J. S. Bach: Education & Career
  • The Bach Family
    • Bach Family Tree [with links to individual members]
  • The Baroque Ideal
    • Doctrine of Affections
    • Basso Continuo
    • Rameau & Fux
  • Essays
    • Bach's Mass in B Minor as Musical Icon
  • Dictionary of Bach Contemporaries [Mini-Bios:]
• J. S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier performed on MIDI (S. D. Rodrian) [possibly useful for analysis]

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• Fugues and Fugue Sets [Lists of fugue sets by various composers (viz. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and Hindemith's Ludus Tonalis]

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