The following is an edited excerpt from the book Contemporary Counterpoint published by Berklee Press. “Canon” means rule, or law, and in music, the simple canon uses a very strict rule to define ...

When we are describing music there are often several categories of description that are commonly used. These include but are not limited to, melody, harmony, timbre, texture and structure. Each of ...

Laboratory-based research on multisensory perception often presents participants with unpredictable combinations of auditory and visual stimuli that may be classed (by the experimenter) as either ...

This app is a tool for music theory students to check their species counterpoint assignments for errors. Students can enter their counterpoint compositions into this tool and receive feedback on their ...

Before reaching its 20th anniversary this year, Counterpoint Press traveled a winding road, from its founding by Frank Pearl (founder of Perseus Books Group) and Jack Shoemaker, to its current ...

In his June 11, 2012 letter, Mr. Penwell says that humans can “improve the quality of the environment”, using Lake Washington as an example. (“ Counterpoint: private lands are not ‘Common’”) In the ...