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The Art of Counterpoint

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Acevedo, Lucía C. "Texture." Grove Music Online. New York: Oxford University Press. {Grove}

Alphonce, Bo H. 1994. "Dissonance and Schumann's Reckless Counterpoint. Music Theory Online 0/7 (March 1994). {MTO}
Agustín-Aquino, Octavio A. 2009. "Counterpoint in 2k-tone equal temperament." Journal of Mathematics and Music  3/3 (2009): 153-164. {TCL}

Atkinson, Sean. 2011. "Canons, Augmentations, and Their Meaning in Two Works by Steve Reich."
Music Theory Online 17/1 (April 2011). {MTO}

Bent, Ian and Anthony Pople. 2001. "Analysis: II. History, 5. 1945-70." In Grove Music Online. New York: Oxford University Press.  {Grove}

Bernard, Jonathan W. 1994. "Voice Leading as a Spatial Function in the Music of Ligeti." Music Analysis 13/2 & 3: 227-253. {JSTOR}

Biamonte, Nicole. 2016. "Online Music Theory in Music Theory Online." Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie 13/2 (2016): 297-309. {ResearchGate}

Collins, Denis. 2008. "'So You Want to Write a Canon?' An Historically-Informed New Approach for the Modern Theory Class." College Music Symposium 48 (October 1, 2008). {CMS}

Cusick, Suzanne G. 2001. "Imitation." Grove Music Online. New York: Oxford University Press. {Grove}

Dannenberg, Roger. 2010. "Style in Music." In Shlomo Argamon, Kevin Burns, and Shlomo Dubnov, eds. The Structure of Style. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 45–58. {GB; ResearchGate}

DeVoto, Mark. 2007. "Fugue." Britannica Academic. {BA}

___________. 2007. "Polyphony." Britannica Academic. {BA}

Galkin, Oleg. 2021. "Questions of Counterpoint from the Perspective of Energy Concept of Ernst Kurth." Social Sciences and Humanities Proceedings, The 5th International Conference on Art Studies (ICASSEE 2021, Dec 2021): 101–108. {AUP}

Gauldin, Robert. 1993. "Fux to Bach: Bridging the Gap." Indiana Theory Review Vol. 14/2: 45-72. Available online at: <https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/3820/GauldinFuxToBachV14.pdf>.

Gjerdingen, Robert and David Perrott. 2008. "Scanning the Dial: The Rapid Recognition of Music Genres." Journal of New Music Research 37/2 (June 2008): 93–100. {ResearchGate}

Jackson, Roland John. 2009. "Counterpoint." Britannica Academic. Available online at: <https://academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/counterpoint/110126>.

Kleppinger, Stanley V. 2011. "Reconsidering Pitch Centricity." Theory and Practice 36 (2011): 65–109. {UNL}

Lalitte, Philippe. 2022. "Temporality and Texture in the Performance of George Crumb’s Music for a Summer Evening." Contemporary Music Review 41: 86–107. {T&F}

LaRue, Jan. 1973. "Style Analysis: An Approach That Works at Any Level, with Any Element, in Any Music." Music Educators Journal 59/5 (January 1973): 62–64. {JSTOR}

Leach, Elizabeth Eva. 2011. "Form, Counterpoint, and Meaning in a Fourteenth-Century French Courtly Song." In Michael Tenzer, and John Roeder, eds., Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music. New York: Oxford Academic.

Ligeti,
György. 1964. "Metamorphoses of Musical Form," trans. Cornelius Cardew, Die Reihe 7 (1964): 5–19.

Long, Megan Kaes. 2025. "From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory. By Michael R. Dodds." Music and Letters 107/2 (May 2026): 339–342.

Mancini, David L. 1989 "Using Species Counterpoint in the Undergraduate Theory Curriculum." Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 3/1.

Mann,
Alfred, J. Kenneth Wilson and Peter Urquhart. 2001. "Canon." Grove Music Online. New York: Oxford University Press. {Grove}

Moe, Orin. 1982. "The Music of Elliott Carter." College Music Symposium (October 1, 1982) {CMS}

Moore, Allan F. 2001. "Categorical Conventions in Music Discourse: Style and Genre." Music & Letters 82/3 (August 2001): 432–442 {JSTOR}

Painting, Kevin. 2015. "Philip Glass and La Boulangerie." Settling Scores blog (Sept. 17, 2015). {Settling Scores}

Pascall, Robert. 2001. "Style." Grove Music Online. {Grove}

Predota, Georg. 2024 "My Favorite Canons and Other Musical Puzzles, series." Interlude. {I. Interlude; II. Interlude; III. Interlude; IV. Interlude, V. Interlude}

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. 2021 "Fugues and Other Musical Charms From Bach to Shostakovich." Interlude (September 24, 2021). {Interlude}

Randel, Don, ed. 2003. "Canon." The Harvard Dictionary of Music. {HD}

Rogers, Lynne. 1995. "Stravinsky's Break with Contrapuntal Tradition: A Sketch Study." The Journal of Musicology 13/4 (Autumn, 1995): 476–507. {TCL}

Ross, Alex. 2018. "A Field Guide to the Musical Leitmotifs of 'Star Wars'". New Yorker (January 3, 2018). {New Yorker}


Ross, Alex. 2022. "Chopin’s Nocturnes Are Arias for the Piano: A sublime new recording by Stephen Hough teases out the bel-canto beauty of the celebrated cycle. New Yorker (
January 24, 2022). {New Yorker}

Sachs, Klaus-Jürgen and Carl Dahlhaus. 2001. "Counterpoint." Grove Music Online. New York: Oxford University Press. {Grove}

Schulter, Margo. 1998. "Pythagorean Tuning and Medieval Polyphony." Available online at: <https://www.medieval.org/emfaq/harmony/pyth.html>.

Schnittke,
Alfred. 1971. “Polystylistic Tendencies of Modern Music”: UNESCO Lecture Transcript (October 8, 1971). {Oxford Academic}

Subotnik, Rose Rosengard. 1991. Developing Variations: Style and Ideology in Western Music. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Walker, Paul M.  2001. "Fugue." Grove Music Online.
New York: Oxford University Press. {Grove}



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