A New Way of Making Fowre Parts in Counterpoint by Thomas Campion: And Rules How to Compose by Giovanni Coprario

by Thomas Campion and Christopher R. Wilson

Regarded as one of the most important English music treatises in the seventeenth century, Thomas Campion's A New Way of Making Fowre Parts in Counterpoint reveals progressive ideas about the latent theory of inversions, the fundamental bass, cadences and tonality, and the major-minor octave scale. In this first accurate modern edition of Campion's treatise, Christopher Wilson provides a fully annotated text and a substantial introduction which highlights...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754605159
• ISBN13: 9780754605157
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.