1st Edition
A New Way of Making Fowre Parts in Counterpoint by Thomas Campion and Rules how to Compose by Giovanni Coprario
Edited By Christopher R. Wilson
Copyright 2003
136 Pages
by
Routledge
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... Read more
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.
Biography
Christopher R. Wilson
'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
