MYL 591E - 16th Century Counterpoint

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,