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291 Published by: Music Library Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/890230 . Accessed: 31/05/2011 13:41
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Heinrich Lemacher und Hermann Schroeder. Mainz: B. Schott's Sihne [dist. in America by Associated Music Pub[119 p., music, lishers, NYC, 1950]. 8vo; paper, $2.40] Every thinking teacher of harmony or counterpoint will feel the desire to write his own textbooks. Here is a new introduction to counterpoint, an intelligent and musical book with few rules and many references to compositions in divers styles. The authors aim at a combination of elements of the "vocal" counterpoint teaching, according to Palestrina and Fux, and the "instrumental" one according to Bach, to which the treatment of folk songs is added as a "contemporary triplum." They deliberately take up an intermediary position-kindness prevents us from rendering Vermittlungsstellung as a form of "compromise"between K. Jeppesen's Palestrina-based Counterpoint, Ernst Kurth's Grundlagen des linearen Kontrapunkts, and Hindemith's Craft of Musical Composition. Holding that counterpoint instruction should accomplish an introduction to the study of distinct styles, this reviewer advocates a stricter separation of historical situations than that offered by Lemacher and Schroeder. Without the composer's concurrence, however, the musicologist is perhaps not privileged to determine how far the teaching of counterpoint should rely on historical principles. HANS T. DAVID
composite items) are taken up separately. The author shows a certain predilection for slow measured execution. In the case of the mordent this is in direct contradiction to Bach's single chart of ornaments (from the Clavierbiichlein fiir Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, which is here misdated 1770). While the larger library and the mature organist may want the book, it is hardly suited for a student who has not mastered the precarious skill of disagreeing with opinions presented in print. Perhaps this was in the mind of author and publisher when they supplemented the material with three blank pages, headed NOTES. HANST. DAVID
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