TEACHING ONLINE

Online instruction by Vince Corozine

COUNTERPOINT (SPECIES & FREE) Syllabus

This course is designed to give the student an understanding or contrapuntal forms and devices used by composers during the sixteenth century. This course will concern itself with modal counterpoint and species counterpoint in two and three parts. The techniques to be studied are imitation, invention, canon, and motive development. The student will be required to compose an original three-voice motet for his final project. A musical vocabulary will be developed and all terminology used will be drawn from and related to actual music.

Prerequisite

The student should have completed Music Theory 1, 2, and 3.

Materials Needed

Keyboard and access to Sibelius music software program.

Textbook: Counterpoint: The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth Century by Knud Jeppesen

Worksheets and assignments will be given with each chapter.

Chapter 1: History of Contrapuntal Theory

Modes
Technical Features
Monophony
Polyphony
Homphony

Chapter 2: First Species: Two Parts

Review Quiz 1

Chapter 3: Second Species: Two Parts

Review Quiz 2

Chapter 4: Third Species: Two Parts

Review Quiz 3

Chapter 5: Fourth and Fifth Species: Two Parts

Review Quiz 4

Chapter 6: Three-Part Counterpoint: First and Second Species

Review Quiz 5

Chapter 7: Three-Part Counterpoint: Third and Fourth Species

Motive Development
Imitation
Invention
Diversity or Rhythmic Movement