Elementary Harmony. E-book. Formato PDF C. H. Kitson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

MY Evolution of Harmony was intended for students of some maturity, and for those who are able to devote 'a considerable time to the subject. A large number of those who have used it have expressed a wish that I should write a short elementary treatise on similar lines. The present book is the first part of this work. It is intended for beginners, for use in schools, and for. Students in musical institutions who have to acquire in a short time a knowledge of the main facts of harmony. In attempting to make the book short and concise, I have been compelled to make it somewhat dogmatic. As the book is for beginners, this is probably an advantage. No attempt is made to deal with modern technique. Obviously such a course would be quite out of place in a book of this nature. In the preparation of this volume I have kept in the foreground what I think are the essentials for any profitable study: (a) ear-training, (b) constructive work, (6) constant use of the unessential. If the study of harmony is to be of any use at all, it must enable the student to use the material about which he reads, even if it be in the most elementary fashion.

Applied Strict Counterpoint. E-book. Formato PDF C. H. Kitson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

So many pupils have acknowledged to me the advantages that have accrued to them from having understood and practised the application of Strict Counterpoint in composition in the strict style, that it seemed to me a short treatise on the subject might be serviceable. Very few teachers encourage the study of Strict Counterpoint in anything but its purely technical and analytical aspects. It is certain that very few students understand the function of the semibreve Canto F ermo. Still fewer realize that it can be eliminated, and that the application of the technique of Strict Counterpoint without this constant factor results in composition in the style of the Polyphonic Period.

The Art of Counterpoint: And Its Application as a Decorative Principle. E-book. Formato PDF C. H. Kitson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The appearance of a new book on Counterpoint, when there are already in existence numerous treatises on the subject, may seem to demand some justification. All books on Counterpoint must of necessity bear a certain resemblance to each other. Any difference must be sought in the point of View, in the relative prominence given to various phases of the subject, and in the treatment of detail, rather than in the statement of general truths or in novelty of arrangement. The history and the broad outlines of Counterpoint offer little scope for originality, and in these matters the present work will be found not unlike its predecessors.