The Art of Counterpoint (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393008333)

Zarlino's Le Istitutioni harmoniche, published in 1558, is one of the most influential music treatises of all time. To his contemporaries it revealed the secrets of composition he had learned from Adrian Willaert, who brought to Italy the polyphonic art of the Netherlands. To the modern scholar Zarlino's treatise illumines the compositional technique of the golden age of vocal polyphony. The essence of this art is contained in Part III, "The Art of Counterpoint," which is here translated into English for the first time.

Author: Gioseffo Zarlino
ISBN-10: 0393008339
ISBN-13: 9780393008333
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1976
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.01w x 0.70d