Preparatory Exercises in Score Reading

R. O Morris, Howard Ferguson (Komponist)

Notenblätter

120 Seiten

1931
Oxford University Press
978-0-19-321475-0 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

Includes 124 short excerpts using a mixture of treble, alto, tenor and bass clefs and various common transpositions. This book concentrates on diatonic harmonic study (including diminished sevenths) and harmonic counterpoint in up to three parts. The exercises train students to see where the principal melody is and to understand harmonies.

124 short excerpts using a mixture of treble, alto, tenor and bass clefs and various common transpositions. The book concentrates on diatonic harmonic study (including diminished sevenths) and harmonic counterpoint in up to three parts. The exercises train students to take in many staves at once, to see where the principal melody is, to understand harmonies and modulations, to read various clefs, and transpose as necessary.

Reginald Owen Morris was a British composer and teacher. He was born in York and was educated at Harrow School, New College, Oxford and the Royal College of Music in London, where he subsequently became professor of counterpoint and composition. Morris was considered a brilliant teacher of counterpoint, and wrote a number of influential texts on the subject. Students of Morris included composers Gerald Finzi, Sir Michael Tippett, Constant Lambert, Robin Milford, Anthony Milner, Edmund Rubbra, Bernard Stevens and Jean Coulthard.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.12.1968
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 279 mm
Gewicht	361 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
ISBN-10	0-19-321475-X / 019321475X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-321475-0 / 9780193214750
Zustand	Neuware