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Christoph Wünsch

Satztechniken im 20. Jahrhundert

Compositional techniques in the 20th century

One of the most exciting chapters in music history is the turn of the 20th century: Different styles develop in…

Music Analysis

Used by: Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag (NETHERLANDS)

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Boris Asafiev

Die Musikalische Form als Prozes

Musical Form as a Process

A unknown volume by Russian theory-professor Boris Assafiev, first published in 1930. He approaches musical form in an algorithmic and…

Music Analysis

Used by: Royal Conservatoire Antwerp (BELGIUM)

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Jörn Peter Hiekel / Christian Utz

Lexikon Neue Musik

Encyclopedia of contemporary music

The encyclopedia shows, beyond aesthetic evaluations, the great variety of contemporary music since 1945. In a wide-ranging lexical section, the…

Other

Used by: Hochschule für Musik Mainz (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) (GERMANY)

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Johannes Menke

Kontrapunkt I: Die Musik der Renaissance / Kontrapunkt II: Die Musik des Barock

Counterpoint I: The Music of the Renaissance

The textbooks provide a comprehensive overview of Renaissance and Baroque compositional techniques. Sources and specific examples provide insight into the…

Counterpoint

Used by: Hochschule für Musik Mainz (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) (GERMANY)

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Zsolt Gárdonyi / Hubert Nordhoff

Harmonik

Harmony

Aspects of harmony and tonality between 16th and 20th century with nearly four hundred analysed quotations from the masterworks of…

Harmony

Used by: Hochschule für Musik Würzburg (GERMANY)

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Zsolt Gárdonyi

Kontrapunkt

Counterpoint

Detailed analysis of the structures in J. S. Bach´s fugues and canons for gaining an inspiring guidance to writing and…

Counterpoint

Used by: Hochschule für Musik Würzburg (GERMANY)

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Thomas Daniel

Kontrapunkt. Eine Satzlehre zur Vokalpolyphonie des 16. Jahrhunderts

Counterpoint

This textbook of counterpoint not only provides basic and comprehensive instruction in compositional theory, but also opens the door to…

Counterpoint

Used by: Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig (GERMANY)

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Ludwig Holtmeier / Johannes Menke / Felix Diergarten

Solfeggi, Bassi e Fughe. Georg Friedrich Händels Übungen zur Satzlehre

Solfeggi, Bassi e Fughe. Georg Friedrich Händel's exercises in composition

The central concern of this edition is to exploit as fully as possible the concentrated, implicitly pedagogical and theoretical potential…

Other

Used by: Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig (GERMANY)

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Thomas Daniel

Vierstimmiger Kantionalsatz im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert : eine historische Satzlehre

Four-part cantorial setting in the 16th and 17th centuries : a historical theory of setting

The cantorial movement – the older form of the chorale movement – is associated on the one hand with numerous…

Counterpoint

Used by: Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig (GERMANY)

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Thomas Daniel

Der Choralsatz bei Bach und seinen Zeitgenossen : eine historische Satzlehre

The choral setting in Bach and his contemporaries : a historical theory of setting

This theory tries to combine modern with historical approaches. It contains, among other things: an outline of Rameau’s harmony theory,…

Other

Used by: Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig (GERMANY)

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Thomas Daniel

Kontrapunkt: Eine Satzlehre zur Vokalpolyphonie des 16. Jahrhunderts

Counterpoint: A composition theory for vocal polyphony of the 16th century

This counterpoint textbook not only offers basic and comprehensive instruction in composition theory, but also opens up access to the…

Counterpoint

Used by: Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig (GERMANY)

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Ertuğrul Sevsay

Handbuch der Instrumentationspraxis

Handbook of Orchestration Practices

Reference work and textbook in one: the handbook for composition students and lecturers, composers, arrangers and conductors as well as…

Instrumentation / Orchestration

Used by: Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig (GERMANY)

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Helmut Well

Skala – Akkord – Funktion. Theoriegeschichtliche und satztechnische Aspekte der Klangorganisation vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert.

Scale - Chord - Function

The book is part of the book series “Paraphrasen – Weimarer Beiträge zur Musiktheorie”, edited by the Hochschule für Musik…

History of Music

Used by: Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt" Weimar (GERMANY)

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Jörn Arnecke

Praktische Musiktheorie

Practical Music Theory

The book is part of the book series “Paraphrasen – Weimarer Beiträge zur Musiktheorie”, edited by the Hochschule für Musik…

Other

Used by: Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt" Weimar (GERMANY)

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Altmann Günter

Musikalische Formenlehre

Theory of the Musical Forms

The “Musical Form Theory” explains systematically and clearly the most important form types of musical so far. The form is…

Music Analysis

Used by: Latvian Academy of Music (LATVIA)

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Arnold Schoenberg

Harmonielehre

Theory of Harmony

Schoenberg’s well-known harmony-book is a wide review from the Viennese classicism to Schoenberg’s own era, as far as tonal music…

Harmony

Used by: Liszt Ferenc Zenemuveszeti Egyetem (HUNGARY)

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