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Title:Convertable Counterpoint in the Strict Style : The English Translation of the Most Distinguished Treatise Ever Written on Musical Composition
Author:Serge Ivanovitch Taneiev
ISBN:0828321841 : 9780828321846
Illustrations:b/w illus
Format:Paperback
Size:205x285mm
Pages:355
Weight: .085 Kg.
Published:Branden Publishing - January 2007
List Price: 59.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:MUSIC


Serge Ivanovitch Taneiev was a great teacher of composition in Russia, having taught the great Russian composers and influenced scores of other musicians. Names like Serge Rachmaninoff, Leonid Sabaneiev, Lazare Saminsky, Walter Piston, Philip Greely Clapp, Igor Stravinsky, Tchaikofsky, and Serge Koussevitzky, who wrote the Introduction to this large volume. Music scholars who are acquainted with the Convertible Counterpoint of Serge Ivanovitch Taneiev consider it the greatest work ever written in its field.

Two-Voice Vertical-Shifting Counterpoint; Three-Vice Vertical-Shifting Counterpoint; Two-Voice Horizontal-Shifting and Double-Shifting Counterpoint; Three-Voice Horizontal-Shifting and Double-Shifting Counterpoint.