This form of music was evolved originally under the suggestion of the mediaeval vocal polyphony,--counterpoint redistributed and systematized in accordance with the modern development of rhythm, tonality, and sectional structure.
It was in the princely chapels of Northern France and the schools attached to them that the new art of counterpoint was first cultivated.
As a scientific method of writing developed, with the combination of parallel and contrary motion, the term discant gave way to counterpoint (Lat.
Such was the liturgic chant in the ages of faith, before the invention of counterpoint and the first steps in modern musical science suggested new conceptions and methods in worship music.
This distinction between harmony and counterpointis fundamental, but no space can be given here to its further elucidation.
But it is evident that in the earlier days of counterpoint these variations were often extemporized on the spur of the moment.
With effort and a little panic, Callista recaptured it out of thecounterpoint of thought.
The Old Man heard and did not hear them; heard and did not hear the deeper counterpoint within him.
Counterpoint led to the employment | | of notes of different value Frederick I.
Teacher in Peace of Utrecht | | counterpoint of Domenico Scarlatti (1713).
I shall put him under my pupil Halevy, to work at counterpoint and fugue.
The following year he began the study of harmony andcounterpoint with M.
A year later she began to compose, and improvised without difficulty, for her lessons in counterpoint and harmony had kept pace with her studies of pianoforte technique.
The elder Liszt was already in Paris, and it was determined that Franz should go to that city, to avail himself of the instructions of Cherubini, at the Conservatoire, who as a teacher of counterpoint had no equal in Europe.
He took lessons in counterpoint from Albrechts-burger, and in composition from Salieri, and in all ways indicated that serene, tireless industry which marked his whole after-career.
All the voices stand on an equal footing, and the composition consists of a weaving together, according to scientific rules, of a number of voices--counterpoint as it is called.
My ribs ached and throbbed in counterpoint to my head.
Her triumphs on the operatic stage belong to the history of musico-dramatic art; she had been a pupil of Liszt on the pianoforte, had studied counterpoint and composition, and composed a good deal.
He suggests that in modern orchestration many seemingly irreconcilable harmonic combinations become perfectly logical if the auditor train himself to follow the harmonic corollary of complex counterpoint "horizontally" instead of "vertically.
They combine free harmonic treatment, freely developed counterpoint and freedom of form.
Gluck called on Handel, who told someone that he knew no more of counterpoint than his cook.
Handel was not only made to master the arts of counterpoint and fugue, but he was also set to study the works of other composers, and to train his sense of style by writing music in direct imitation of them.
It is also necessary to write without the pianoforte, and sometimes to develop a simple chorale melody now with simple, and anon with varied figurations in counterpoint and this will cause no headache to Y.
Began to study counterpoint with William Smith Rockstro and continued to do so until Rockstro's death in 1895.
Händel assisted at the production of these two operas, and is reported to have said that the author knew no more of counterpoint than a pig.
He devoted himself to serious study of counterpoint and composition under the instruction of Haydn at first, but later with Albrechtsberger.
His studies in counterpoint had never been pursued beyond the rudiments, and the last engagement he made before his death was for lessons with Sechter, the contrapuntal authority in Vienna at that time.
He made diligent efforts to master counterpoint and fugue, and manly attempts in these provinces can be found among his writings; but counterpoint and fugue remained to him a foreign language.
While Mozart was distinctly a melodist, counterpoint and fugue were at his fingers' ends, and his thematic treatment had all the freedom which comes from a thorough training in the use of musical material.
By "counterpoint" we mean a second voice added to a melody already existing, the counterpoint having a strict relation to the leading melody, but a wholly independent movement.
Indeed, the frottola descended by an extremely easy transition to the villanelle, a still more popular form of composition and one marked by even less relationship to the counterpoint of the low countries.
So he began trying to write hiscounterpoint in such a way that the voice parts should often come together in successions of chords.
The double counterpoint of the Kyrie in Mozart's Requiem is still more indisputably identical with that of the last chorus of Handel's Joseph, and if the themes are common property their combination certainly is not.
Melodic curves, lines, sing ecstatically over turbulent, mottled counterpoint in the piano and violin sonatas.
He studied the pianoforte with Vassily Safonoff, counterpoint first with Taneieff and later with Arensky.
So we find him writing counterpoint for the sake of the learnedness and presumable respectability, rather than as a piece of expression.
There is a great deal of counterpoint in it that exists only for the benefit of those who "read" scores, and that clutters the work.
He studied the pianoforte with Epstein, composition and counterpoint with Bruckner.
He was made professor of counterpoint in the Royal Academy in Munich in 1905.
Had he not written two books of canons displaying the most amazing technical ingenuities; found it simple, as in his "Sinfonietta," to keep five or six strands of counterpoint going?
Handel; "he knows no more of counterpoint then mein cook.
At the age of fourteen he had made himself a master of counterpoint and harmony, and composed a large mass of chamber-music and works for the piano.
In 1759 Gretry went to Rome, where he studiedcounterpoint for five years.
He now attracted the attention of the Countess Perticari, who admired his voice, and she sent him to the Lyceum to learn fugue and counterpoint at the feet of a very strict Gamaliel, Padre Mattei.
But so long as colour is excluded, such counterpoint is confined to black and white.
Although he was giving me lessons, he nevertheless wanted me still to continue my studies of counterpoint with my former teacher, who was one of his pupils.
Shortly afterwards I gave them up, though that did not prevent me from continuing alone the counterpoint exercises, in which I took more and more interest, and during that period I filled a thick volume with them.
This first contact with the science of counterpoint opened up at once a far vaster and more fertile field in the domain of musical composition than anything that harmony could offer me.
In a later work on "Counterpoint" he used for chapter headings Greek vases and other decorative designs, to stimulate the ideal of counterpoint as a unified complexity of graceful contours.
After four years of European life he returned to Boston, where he has taught harmony and counterpoint along rather original lines.
He studied counterpoint under Rheinberger, and won public mention for proficiency.
It is hard to say whether the composer's emotion or his counterpoint is given freer rein here, for the work is remarkable both for the display of every technical resource and for the irresistible tempest of its passion.
In 1883 he went to Germany to studycounterpoint and composition with Vierling and Urban in Berlin.
After various public performances, he went to Germany in 1868, to study the piano under Bendel and Kullak, and counterpoint under Kiel.
In 1883 he went to Munich for two years, where he studied counterpoint and composition with Rheinberger.
It needs no very intimate acquaintance with Nevin's music to see that it is not based on an adoration for counterpoint as an end.
Returning to New York, he took up counterpoint and fugue with Horatio W.
An exercise book containing exercises in thorough-bass and counterpoint is preserved in the Mozarteum at Salzburg, bearing no date, but evidently falling within this period.
It was the custom to write a movement in elaborate counterpoint on the words of "Pignus futurae gloriae," and Mozart was not one to shrink from such a task.
The dissimilarity of the different parts was increased by the supposed necessity of also representing the severe style, and of balancing a tour de force of counterpoint by a tour de force of execution.
It was not without intention that the representative of counterpoint on the principles of the old Roman school emphasised modern music, the "buon gusto" of which did not altogether content him.
The Dixit is quite in the style of a short mass, the different sections in counterpoint full of force and animation.
But the ordering of the details and the counterpoint are both excellent, and bear many marks of originality.
This identification of counterpoint with ecclesiastical ideas caused its development to proceed side by side with those other forms which had made good their footing in church music.
Footnote 43: Three short movements incounterpoint for four voices, with a figured bass.
Mozart composed at Munich in 1775 as an exercise, is in counterpoint throughout.
