The Craft of Modal Counterpoint

Contents

• 1. General Stylistic Aspects
• Texture
• Text Setting
• Notation and Performance Practice
• Rhythm and Meter
• Note Values
• Rests
• Dots and Ties
• Harmony
• General Observations
• Accidentals (Musica ficta)
• Cadences
• Chords
• Melody
• General Observations
• Intervals and Treatment of Leaps
• Other Aspects of Melody
• Typical Quarter-Note Idioms
• 2. Two-Voice Counterpoint
• General Observations
• Rhythm
• Texture
• Phrase and Form
• Motivic (Thematic) Organization
• Technical Details
• Motion Relationships
• Intervallic Relationships
• Cadential Idioms
• Comments on Two-Voice Composition
• Imitation in Two-Voice Texture
• General Observations
• Invertible Counterpoint at the Octave
• Invertible Counterpoint at the Twelfth
• 3. Three-Voice Counterpoint
• General Observations
• Texture and Rhythm
• Harmony
• Dissonance Treatment
• Cadential Idioms
• Imitation
• Comments on Imitation
• Comments on Three-Voice Composition
• 4. Counterpoint in Four Voices
• 5. The Motet
• General Observations
• Imitation
• Comments on Motet Writing
• Suggestions for Further Study
• Appendix: An Anthology of Complete Works
• Bibliography
• Discography
• Index