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By Ernesto | February 11, 2008
In a few previous posts I’ve mentioned books I’ve downloaded from archive.org. This has proven to be quite a valuable resource. I’ve found many interesting books in never-ending quest for musical quasi-knowledge. Here are some highlights:
Canonical Studies: The title says it all. I read somewhere that Bartok was rather fond of this book. It does use a pretty modern language. Canons with whole-tone scales and cool stuff like that.
Sixteenth-Century Polyphony: An alternative to Palestraina-style counterpoint, which avoids the usual species counterpoint approach.
Twentieth Century Counterpoint: Analyzes various 20th century composers’ approaches to counterpoint, including Bartok, Stravinsky and Hindemith.
The Evolution Of Twentieth Century Harmony: Cover a lot of ground similar to Vincent Persichetti’s Twentieth-Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and Practice.
Counterpoint Applied: Probably the most extensive analysis of contrapuntal forms I’ve yet to read. Pretty cool.
There’s a lot more too: books on harmony, counterpoint, theory, composers, ear training, etc…
Have fun.
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