The Study of Counterpoint : From Johann J. Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum

Translated and edited by Alfred Mann. The only English translation of the great eighteenth-century work that has been the basis for the study of counterpoint for more than 200 years.

CONTENIDO:

Introduction
The author's foreword to the reader

FIRST PART
I- Note against note
II- The second species of counterpoint
III- The third species of counterpoint
IV- The fourth species of counterpoint
V- The fifth species of counterpoint

SECOND PART
I- Note against note in three parts
II- Half notes against whole notes in three parts
III- Quarters against whole notes in three parts
IV- The ligature
V- Florid counterpoint

THIRD PART
I- Four part composition or writing in four voices
II- Half notes against whole notes
III- Quarters against whole notes
IV- The ligature
V- Florid counterpoint

Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index