Re: Counterpoint books

on 3/28/01 2:03 AM, tuning@yahoogroups.com at tuning@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> I am a newcomer to Western music. On enquiry, the librarian of a
> local library recommended "Counterpoint" by Dr. Walter Piston.
>
> Any advice on where to begin?
>
> Haresh.
>

It's not a counterpoint text, but I did find it useful. After too much time
tryying to digest Dr. Pistons' Harmony text, I found Persichettis' 20th
Century Harmony much more enlightening.

BTW, I am much enjoying practicing singing in JI to your tanpura CD.

All the best,

Seth

--
Seth Austen

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"Music is far, far older than our species. It is tens of millions of years
old, and the fact that animals as wildly divergent as whales, humans and
birds come out with similar laws for what they compose suggests to me that
there are a finite number of musical sounds that will entertain the
vertebrate brain."

Roger Payne, president of Ocean Alliance, quoted in NY Times

Seth!
I loved this book for the longest time (early 20's) in both its attempt to look at
possibilities and what happens with them. another "composerly" book

Seth Austen wrote:

>
> It's not a counterpoint text, but I did find it useful. After too much time
> tryying to digest Dr. Pistons' Harmony text, I found Persichettis' 20th
> Century Harmony much more enlightening.

-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
http://www.anaphoria.com

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