Counterpoint in Composition - by Felix Salzer & Carl Schachter (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

-- Stanley Persky, City University of New York

From the Back Cover

'Counterpoint in Composition' began life not as a book, but as a collection of examples from the literature. Dr. Salzer and Dr. Schachter assembled it to show the connections between the simple procedures of species counterpoint and the complexities of composition, an approach to counterpoint deriving from the work of Heinrich Schenker.

Review Quotes

This book may become the most important music theory book for the next few generations of theorists, composers and performers.

About the Author

The late Felix Salzer was a Professor at Queens College, City University of New York, and the author of Structural Hearing. Carl Schachter is a Professor at Queens College and at the Mannes School of Music and is the author of many essays on music theory.