A New Way of Making Fowre Parts in Counterpoint by Thomas Campion: and Rules how to Compose by Giovanni Coprario / Edition 1

by Christopher R. Wilson

Overview

Regarded as one of the most important English music treatises in the seventeenth century, Thomas Campion's A New Way of Making Fowre Parts in Counterpoint reveals progressive ideas about the latent theory of inversions, the fundamental bass, cadences and tonality, and the major-minor octave scale. In this first accurate modern edition of Campion's treatise, Christopher Wilson provides a fully annotated text and a substantial introduction which highlights the historical significance of 'A New Way...' both in its close relationship with Coprario's 'Rules how to Compose' (which is included as an appendix together with commentary and notes) and its unusual debt to German rather than Italian music theory. Wilson presents a persuasive case for viewing the treatise as essentially a very early modern harmony tutor.and its unusual debt to German rather than Italian music theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780754605157
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/28/2003
Series:	Music Theory in Britain, 1500-1700: Critical Editions
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Contents: Series editor's preface; Preface; Introduction: Background to Campion; Date of treatise; Campion and Coprario; Campion's treatise after 1620; Campion and Renaissance theory; Campion's preface on the 'Scale'; Campion's harmonic thinking; Campion and Calvisius; Editorial note: A new Way of Making Fowre Parts in Counterpoint: The preface; Of counterpoint; Of the tones of musicke; Of the taking of all concords, perfect and imperfect; Of the lesser or imperfect third; Of the greater or perfect third; Of the lesser sixt; Of the greater sixt; Giovanni Coprario, Rules how to compose; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

'This is a valuable publication; it is good to have the content of the two treatises available in such an accessible form, while the interpretative and background material not only illuminates the treatises, but also places their content in a fairly wide historical context, particularly in relation to 16th- and 17th-century musical theory.' The Consort 'Wilson's volume is without doubt a most welcome transcription of two treatises whose importance has yet to be completely realized... Wilson's volume will surely prompt a reconsideration of the place of England, abstract instrumental music, and other genres in our interpretation of the early Baroque.' Music and Letters

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