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Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style by Peter Schubert click to enlarge

Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style

Peter Schubert

This is the only species counterpoint book that uses examples and concepts taken directly from sixteenth-century treatises and contemporaneous theoretical sources. The author's selection of Renaissance repertoire examples comprises many genres and styles, including French chansons, German chorale settings, English canzonets, Italian madrigals, and Spanish organ hymns, villancicos, and ricercars.

This book has clear progressively more difficult exercises, enabling readers to develop skills systematically. By the end of the book readers are writing real compositions, not just drill exercises.

336 pgs, spiral bound, 11" x 9"

$59.95

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