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Course Name	Turkish	On Altıncı Yüzyıl Kontrpuanı
	English	16th Century Counterpoint
Course Code	MYE 591E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	3	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Paul Alıster Whıtehead
Course Objectives		1. To develop in students an idiomatic sensibility of sixteenth-century style, 2. To teach writing skills in a sixteenth-century contrapuntal idiom
Course Description		The acquisition of writing skills in the sixteenth-century contrapuntal discipline, and the ability to write naturally in sixteenth-century idioms; melodic line, the study of dissonance, imitation, text-setting, double counterpoint, canonic writing, voice-leading, cadences, paraphrase technique, three-voice and four-voice considerations, the motet, parody technique, and musica ficta,
Course Outcomes		Graduate students who successfully pass this course gain the following knowledge, skills, and competencies: 1. The ability to compose using sixteenth-century contrapuntal techniques, 2. Knowledge about the rules governing sixteenth-century contrapuntal writing and the ability to articulate them, 3. Knowledge about the compositional forms that were most prevalent in the sixteenth-century as well as the knowledge of important works by sixteenth-century composers, 4. The ability to sense what is stylistically appropriate in a sixteenth-century contrapuntal piece, 5. Competency in setting text in a sacred sixteenth-century style,
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Textbook		Salzer, Felix, and Carl Schachter. 1989. Counterpoint in Composition: The Study of Voice Leading. New York: Columbia University Press
Other References		Andrews, Herbert Kennedy, 1958, An Introduction to the Technique of Palestrina, London: Novello, Gauldin, Robert, 1985, Sixteenth-Century Counterpoint, Illinois: Waveland Press Inc, Jeppersen, Knud, 1992, Counterpoint: The Polyphonic Style of the Sixeenth Century, Reprinted by Dover, Mann, Alfred A,, ed, and trans, 1971, The Study of Counterpoint, New York: W, W, Norton, Piston, Walter, 1984, Counterpoint, New Haven: YaleUniversity Press, Soderland, Gustave Frederic, and Samuel H, Scott, 1996, Examples of Gregorian Chant and Sacred Music of the 16th Century, Illinois: Waveland Press Inc,

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