The Art Of Counterpoint

By Gioseffo Zarlino

Translated by Professors Marco and Palisca in an exemplary manner, Part III concerns] the materials and methods of composition . . . for voices. . . . The] eighty chapters are] arranged in a logical progression of intricacy, beginning with the materials of counterpoint, intervals, rules of consonance and dissonance, and proceeding finally . . . to a discussion of chromaticisim and its faults. Journal of the American Musicological Society"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306762064
• ISBN13: 9780306762062
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 6.3"