Terms & Concepts

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1. Acrostic {BA; WP}
2. Alteration {HD} 
3. Analysis {Grove}
   
4. Bach seal {WP; WC}
   
5. Bach motif: B–A–C–H {Grove; WP}
   
6. Bach motto: Soli Deo gloria (S.D.G.) {WP}
7. Bach's numbers: 14, 41, etc. (Tatlow 2015)
   
• See: Cryptography, musical {Grove}; Numbers and Music {Grove}
  
8. Cadence {HD; Grove}
   
9. Cambiata {HD; Grove} 
10. Canon {HD;  Grove}
• Dux/comes (Lat., 'leader/follower') {Grove}
• Presa (It.) {Grove}
• Signum congruentiae (Lat., 'sign of congruence') {HD}
• Simple canon
• Multiple canon
• Double canon
• Triple canon
• etc.
• Accompanied canon
11. Cantata {Grove}
    
• Chorale cantata {Grove}
  
12. Chaconne {Grove}
    
13. Chorale {BA; Grove; WP}
    
14. Chorale prelude {BA; Grove; WP}
15. Chordal dissonance (Gauldin  2013)
16. Chromatic {Grove}
    
17. Clefs (Historical) {WP}
    
18. Continuo {Grove}
    
19. Convertible Counterpoint (Gauldin  2013)
20. Counterpoint {HD; Grove; Partimenti.org}
    
• Strict vs. free counterpoint {Grove}
• Imitative counterpoint
  
21. Compound melody {WP}
    
22. Convertible Counterpoint (Taneyev 1962)
    
23. Corpus analysis (Giraud et al. 2017) 
24. Cross relation {HD}
    
25. Double counterpoint, see Invertible counterpoint
    
26. Durchführung (Ger., 'leading through') {Grove}
    
27. Figured bass, see Thoroughbass
28. Form {Grove}
    
29. Fortspinnung (Ger., 'spinning forth') {Grove}
    
30. Fugue {BA; HD; Grove}
    
• Exposition {Grove} 
  
• Subject {Grove}
• Head motive
• Tail motive
  
• Answer {Grove}
  
• Countersubject {Grove}
  
• Bridge, or codetta
• -----
  
• Order of voice entries; e.g., SAS, 213
• Link
• Extra entry
  
• Development
  
• Re-entry, or Middle Entry
  
• False entry
  
• Episode {Grove}
  
• Contrapuntal devices
• Inversion {Grove}
  
• Stretto {Grove}
  
• Augmentation {Grove}/Diminution {Grove}
  
• Invertible counterpoint {Grove}
  
• Multiple expositions
• Counterexposition
• Reexposition
  
• Concluding section
• Final Entry
• Coda
  
• Simple vs. multiple fugue
  
• Simple fugue
• Multiple fugue
• Double fugue {HD; Grove}
• Triple fugue {Grove}
• Other
  
• Chorale fugue {Grove}
• Counter-fugue
  
• Fugue d’école (Fr.: ‘school fugue’) {Grove; Partimenti.org}
  
• Mirror fugue
  
• Permutation fugue {Grove}
• Stretto fugue
  
31. Fundamental bass {Grove} (Rameau 1722) 
32. Handexemplar (Ger.), personal or work copy (Wolff 1976) 
33. Harmony {HD; Grove}
    
• Funktionstheorie (T, S, D)
• Harmonic function {Grove} 
• Stufentheorie (Roman numerals)
  
34. Key signature {HD} 
• Modal, or partial, signature
35. Ground bass {HD} 
36. Grundgestalt (Ger., 'basic shape') {Grove} 
37. Imitation {Grove} 
38. Invertible counterpoint {HD; Grove}
    
• Double counterpoint
• Triple counterpoint
• etc.
  
39. Interval {BA; Grove} 
• Consonant vs. dissonant {HD}
• Diatonic vs. chromatic
• Generic vs. specific
• Primary vs. secondary
40. Invention {Grove}
    
• Exposition
• Motive
• Countermotive
• Episode
• Re-entry
  
41. Inversion {Grove}
    
42. Mass {Grove}
    
43. Mizler Society {WP}
    
44. Mode {Grove}
    
45. Modulation {Grove}
• Closely-related key
  
46. Motet {Grove}
    
47. Notation {Grove}
    
48. Non-harmonic tone {Grove}
    
49. Note values: British vs. American {WP}
50. Part-writing [voice-leading] {Grove}
    
51. Partimento {HD} (Sanguinetti 2012)
    
• See also: Partimenti.org
  
52. Partita {Grove}
    
53. Partial (key) signature {HD}
    
54. Passacaglia {Grove}
55. Pedal point {Grove}
    
56. Picardy third {WP}
    
57. Pitch notation
• American Standard (WP)
• Helmholtz {WP}
  
58. Prima pratica and seconda pratica (It.) {Grove}
    
59. Ricercare {Grove}
60. Rule of the Octave {Grove; Partimenti.org}
    
61. Schema {Partimenti.org}
    
62. Simplified harmonic mode (Gauldin  2013)
63. Sinfonia {Grove}
    
64. Sonata {BA; Grove}
    
65. Species Counterpoint {Grove}
    
66. Step progression {GB} (Davidian 2015)
67. Suite {Grove}
    
68. Texture {Grove} 
• Monophony {Grove}
• Polyphony {Grove}
• Homophony {Grove}
• Heterophony {Grove}
  
69. Thoroughbass {HD; Grove}
     (It. Basso continuo; Ger. Generalbaß; Eng. Figured bass)
    
70. Trio sonata {HD; Grove}
    
71. Toccata {HD}
72. Tonality {Grove}
• Key {Grove}
• Scale {Grove}
  
• Diatonic {Grove}
• Chromatic {Grove}
  
73. Triple counterpoint, see Invertible counterpoint
    
74. Urtext {WP; Bärenreiter}
75. Vademecum (Lat.) {WP}
76. Variations {Grove}
    
77. Well Temperament {WP; Xenharmonic Wiki}
    
    

Links

Early Music Sources (EMS) – https://www.earlymusicsources.com

Grove Music Online (Grove) – https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic

Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia (WP) – https://www.wikipedia.org

Online Dictionaries

1. Britannica Academic {BA}
   
2. Grove/Oxford {TCL} - *
3. Harvard Dictionary of Music {HD} - *

Glossaries (Open Access)

1. Earsense, Fugue Vocabulary {Earsense.org}
2. Edwards, Puzzle Canon Glossary {PuzzleCanon.com}
3. Kerman, Art of Fugue Glossary {Open JSTOR} (Kerman 2015)

Links

Grove Music Online; Oxford Music Online (Grove). 2025. Oxford University Press. Available online at: <http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com>.

Gjerdingen, ed., Partimenti.org: An Introduction to Counterpoint | An Illustrated Guide to the Rule of the Octave | The Academic Fugue | What are Schemas?

See also: BAIN MUSC 726C Bibliography; Articles

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

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

Kerman, Joseph. 2015/2005. Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715–1750. Berkeley: University of California Press.{Full-text: Luminosa; JSTOR}

Rameau, Jean-Philippe. 1971/1722. Treatise on Harmony, translated Philip Gossett. Mineola, NY: Dover.

Randel, Don Michael, ed. 2003. The Harvard Dictionary of Music (HD), 4th ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. {HD}

Sanguinetti, Giorgio. 2012. The Art of Partimento: History, Theory, and Practice. New York: Oxford University Press. {GB}

Tatlow, Ruth. 2015. Bach's Numbers: Compositional Proportion and Significance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {GB; Full-text: EBSCOhost}

Wolff, Christoph . 1976. "Bach's 'Handexemplar' of the Goldberg Variations: A New Source." Journal of the American Musicological Society 29/2 (Summer 1976): 224-241. {JSTOR}