Coming soon!
This course is under development as of summer 2021. Lessons are already being uploaded, and I tentatively plan to launch in September. For early access to the material as it becomes available, please consider becoming an all-access member of this site!
This course will cover the major concepts of counterpoint as they have been employed throughout musical history, from Renaissance motets to Baroque fugues to Classical symphonies to 20th-century serialism to modern jazz and pop.
At each step of the way, I will show you how to employ these techniques in your own music, regardless of your chosen genre!
Community
Mastering MuseScore is proud to offer its own Community site as a free resource for our students. There, you can engage and collaborate with other like-minded musicians and learn together. Comment on course materials, ask questions, post your own music, give feedback to others, and watch the free weekly MuseScore Café and Music Master Class live streams - the Community is an amazing value all by itself!
Course Curriculum
- Overview (7:13)
- Interdependence (17:59)
- First Species (1:1) (11:54)
- Demonstration: Harmonizing a Melody (31:44)
- Second Species (2:1) (14:18)
- Third Species (Many:1) (12:43)
- Demonstration / Exercise: Two-Part Piano Piece (32:09)
- Fourth Species (Offset) (12:15)
- Fifth Species (Florid) (10:50)
- Invertible Counterpoint (22:47)
- Demonstration / Exercise: Renaissance Duet (31:27)
- Overview (3:38)
- Combinations (16:37)
- Variety (12:11)
- Triads (17:03)
- Dissonance (20:40)
- Doubling (21:06)
- Function (15:32)
- Analysis: Texture and Motion (6:42)
- Analysis / Exercise: Renaissance Harmony (26:17)
- Analysis / Exercise: Baroque Harmony (14:37)
- Demonstration / Exercise: Three Part Counterpoint (42:47)
- Overview
- Real and Tonal Imitation (15:44)
- Sequence (7:16)
- Augmentation and Diminution (7:46)
- Inversion (20:39)
- Retrograde (7:52)
- Analysis / Exercise: Trio Sonata (15:04)
- Stretto (6:13)
- Canon in Two Parts (10:45)
- Canon in Three or More Parts (8:06)
- Analysis / Exercise: Accompanied Canon (21:40)
- Canon Construction (29:25)
- Demonstration / Exercise: Free Canon (26:16)
- Demonstration / Exercise: Canon Over Fixed Bass (35:23)
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