C O U R S E   M O D U L E S
1.	Introduction
2.	Two-Voice Species Counterpoint
3.	Imitation
4.	Three & Four-Voice Counterpoint
5.	Invention
	Fugue

News

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Assignments/Activities

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Quotable

	Counterpoint is a component that gives real energy, and it is about optimism.
	– Twyla Tharp

Course Description

Analysis and writing in contrapuntal forms

Required Textbook (Open Access)

Mark Gotham, et al., Open Music Theory, Version 2 {OMT2}

Course Documents

1. Syllabus (pdf)
• Course Overview (pdf)
• Daily Schedule (pdf)
• Links for Students
  
2. Listening/Analysis
3. Reading
4. Activities
5. Handouts
6. Exam Study Guides
   
• Exam 1 (pdf) – Wed., Oct. 8
  
• Exam 2 (pdf) – Wed., Nov. 12
7. Composition Project (pdf) – Due: Fri., Dec. 12, 11:59 pm
8. Bibliography
   
   

Online Resources

1. Baroque Music Performance
• Emmanuel Music {YouTube Channel; Website}
  
• Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras {YouTube Channel; Website}
  
• Netherlands Bach Society, All of Bach {YouTube Channel; Website}
  
• Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) {YouTube Channel; Website}
  
• Total Baroque {YouTube Channel}
  
• Voices of Music {YouTube Channel; Website}
2. Belkin, Applied Counterpoint {YouTube Playlist}
• On Counterpoint {YouTube}
  
3. Byros, Poetry of Tone {YouTube Channel}
• Scale harmonization, ascending and descending, major and minor, all 3 positions (The Rule of Octave) {YouTube}
  
4. Dahn, Bach-Chorales.com {Dahn}
• About the Chorales of J.S. Bach {Dahn}
• Sortable Index of the Chorales by J.S. Bach {Dahn}
5. Edwards, Puzzle Canon {Website; YouTube Channel}
   
6. Gjerdingen
• Child Composers (2020) {GB; YouTube Channel}
• Video 7.1 Beginners Learn Cadences {YouTube}
• Video 7.2 The Rule of the Octave {YouTube}
• Partimenti.org
• An Illustrated Guide of the Rule of the Octave {Partimenti.org}
  
• An Introduction to Counterpoint {Partimenti.org}
  
• An Introduction to the History of Partimenti {Partimenti.org}
• Rules and Partimenti of Fedele Fenaroli (1730-1818) {Partimenti.org}
  
• What are Schemas? {Partimenti.org}
7. Gran, Counterpoint {YouTube Channel}
   
• Species Counterpoint {YouTube Playlist}
  
• Imitative Counterpoint {YouTube Playlistl}
  
• Tonal Counterpoint {YouTube Playlist}
  
8. Gotham, et al., Open Music Theory, Version 2 {OMT2}
   
• I. Fundamentals {OMT2}
• II. Counterpoint and Galant Schemas {OMT2}
• III. Form {OMT2}
• IV. Diatonic Harmony, Tonicization, and Modulation {OMT2}
• V. Chromaticism {OMT2}
  
• XI. Rhythm and Meter {OMT2}
  
9. Lawrence, Bach and Friends (2010)  {MLFilms.com}
   
10. Malinowski, Music Animation Machine {Museanim.com}
• Bach: A Musical Offering: Index of animated graphical scores, NBS {Musicanim.com}
• J.S. Bach, Art of Fugue, Complete. Kimiko Ishizaka (piano), Malinowski (animation) {YouTube}
• Goldberg Variations — graphical scores, Colin Booth (harpsichord) {Musicanim.com}
11. Mermikides, Milton Mermikides Online {miltonline.com; Gresham Lectures}
    
• Bach's Invention: The Divine Trickery of J.S. Bach {YouTube}
  
12. NPR
• Huizenga, Bach's Enduring Enigma: An Introduction to the 'Goldberg Variations', feat. Christoph Wolff (2012) {NPR}
• Pfeiffer, For pianist Dan Tepfer, improvisation is the mother of Bach's Inventions (2023) {NPR}
13. Remeš, Go Figure! Thoroughbass and Composition {YouTube Channel}
• Historical Music Theory documents {DerekRemes.com}
• Compendium of Voice-Leading Patterns {TU Dortmund University}
  
• Thoroughbass for Beginners: J. C. Kellner's Treatise {YouTube Playlist}
14. Rotem, Early Music Sources {EMS}
• The Rule of the Octave {YouTube}
15. Smith, The Canons and Fugues of J.S. Bach
• Digital Bach archive {YouTube Channel}
16. Tepfer, #BachUpsideDown (2021) {Tepfer.com}
    
• Bach’s Goldberg Variations in chromatic inversion, explained (2022) {DanTepfer.com}
  
  

Research Tools

1. Thomas Cooper Library
• FindIt @ UofSC
• Search the Libraries
  
2. Dictionaries: Harvard Dictionary | Grove/Oxford
3. Articles: JSTOR
4. E-books: Ebook Central | EBSCOhost | Hathi Trust
   
5. Scores: CPDL; IMSLP; Alexander Street
   
6. Recordings: Naxos | Spotify | YouTube
   
   

References

See also: BAIN MUSC 312 Bibliography | Articles

Benjamin, Thomas. 2003. The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint. New York: Routledge. {GB; TCL}

Davidian, Teresa. 2015. Tonal Counterpoint for the 21st-Century Musician. New York: Rowman & Littlefield. {GB}

Gauldin, Robert. 2013/1995. A Practical Approach to 18th Century Counterpoint. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press. {GB1; GB2}

____________. 2004. Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music, 2nd ed. New York: Norton, pp. A14–A25. {GB}

Gotham, Mark, et al. 2023. Open Music Theory, Version 2 (OMT2). Available online at: <https://viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusictheory/>.

Kennan, Kent. 1999. Counterpoint, 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. {GB}