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New PDF release: Tonal Counterpoint for the 21st-Century Musician: An

By Teresa Davidian

ISBN-10: 144223458X

ISBN-13: 9781442234581

ISBN-10: 1442234598

ISBN-13: 9781442234598

Students at the present time have grown up within the age of electronic expertise. hence, they strategy details in substantially alternative ways than previous generations. they prefer their info quick and think about visible pictures as very important as text. In Tonal Counterpoint for the 21st-Century Musician, Teresa Davidian eventually offers scholars a textbook that's quickly, direct, and visual—a direct mirrored image of the age during which they reside. This ebook is straightforward to appreciate, accomplished, and fairly sleek in its method of the learn of counterpoint. Written in a mode that's transparent, easy, and casual writing sort, Davidian artfully mixes the heritage of counterpoint with an summary of its constitution, putting musical examples from J. S. Bach part by means of facet with these from The Beatles to demonstrate the universality and forex of counterpoint in tune research and composition.

Designed as a single-semester creation, Tonal Counterpoint brings the examine of counterpoint into the current by:

  • Making considerable use of diagrams and movement charts
  • Including necessary step by step urged sheets for examining innovations and fugues
  • Placing simply as a lot emphasis at the composition as at the research of counterpoint
  • Offering a large array of musical examples, together with the paintings of girls composers, American songwriters, present scholars, and dad track composers

Throughout, Davidian explains how the suggestions of 18th-century contrapoint nonetheless comfortably observe to how tune consists this present day.

Tonal Counterpoint for the 21st-Century Musician is perfect for college kids within the fields of song idea, composition, tune heritage, and function.

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