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A New Look At 16th-century Counterpoint by Margarita Merriman is a music available to read on EtoBox.
What is A New Look At 16th-century Counterpoint about?
Based on the style of Palestrina and other giants of the Renaissance golden age of choral music, this volume provides a practical method for gaining mastery of modal counterpoint, emphasizing musical creativity and encouraging the student to set words almost from the beginning, suggesting options such as traditional Latin texts, English translations, and sacred and secular verse. The author assumes previous mastery of music fundamentals.
Who reads A New Look At 16th-century Counterpoint?
It is typically read by artists, cooks, musicians and hobbyists working from how-to references.
Common subject areas: arts, cooking, music, crafts.
- Author
- Margarita Merriman
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C.: University Press of America
- Published
- 1982
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780819123923
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Music, Arts
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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