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

The Final Exam will be posted on Mon., Dec. 8. It is due Fri., Dec. 12, noon

The Composition Project is due Fri., Dec. 12, 11:59 pm

Reading

Ralph Turek, The Fugue (Turek 1995b)

Assignments/Activities

See Blackboard

Quotable

	Counterpoint teaches us how to think in several voices at once. It disciplines the mind in musical logic.
	– Arnold Schoenberg

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}
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}