Counterpoint Projects

Percy Goetschius Applied Counterpoint (1902)

New digital edition by Jonathan Kulp, 2015

An excellent in-depth counterpoint book, digitized with embedded audio players.

Percy Goetschius: Exercises in Elementary Counterpoint

My digital overhaul of this 1910 public-domain counterpoint text. Read here for my rationale, or hear me talk all about it on Hacker Public Radio. Formats:

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NEW: Workbook to Accompany Exercises in Elementary Counterpoint

This workbook is a printable compilation of the cantus firmus melodies that appear in Exercises in Elementary Counterpoint (1910) by Percy Goetschius. Not even close to finished yet, but grab it here: PDF

Percy Goetschius The Homophonic Forms of Musical Composition (1918)

New digital edition by Jonathan Kulp, 2017

An excellent in-depth book on musical form, digitized with [some] embedded audio players. Text and images finished, a LONG way to go with the audio players, though.

Gratis ad Parnassum: A Free Counterpoint Workbook

This is a free counterpoint workbook that I’ve written to use with my own students but have released under a Creative Commons license so that it can be freely shared. The workbook is available in pdf and html formats here, along with all of the Lilypond and LaTeX source files.

pdf workbook and Lilypond and LaTeX source files

How do I do this? Watch this screen capture and see

Cherubini: A Treatise on Counterpoint and Fugue

Dr. Brian Bondari has created a fresh edition of Luigi Cherubini’s A Treatise on Counterpoint and Fugue in Wiki format. It has newly-engraved musical examples, created using MuseScore, and featuring play buttons under every example.

Music by Bach

I have embedded bookmarks in these large PDFs that allow you to jump to any piece in the file instantly.

• WTC Book 1 (pdf 6.3MB)
• WTC Book 2 (pdf 7.3MB)
• The Open Bach WTC, Book 1 (pdf 3.4MB), new engraving. For info visit Kimiko Ishizaka’s Open Well-Tempered Clavier.
• 15 Two-Part Inventions, BWV 772–786 (pdf 12MB)
• 15 Sinfonias, BWV 787–801 (pdf 12MB)
• Six English Suites BWV 806–811 and 6 French Suites BWV 812–817 Complete (pdf 6.8MB)
• 6 Violin Sonatas and Partitas, BWV 1001-1006 and 6 Cello Suites, BWV 1007-1012, Complete (11MB)

Music by Others

• Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 24–32 (pdf 44.5MB)
• George Whitefield Chadwick (1854–1931): 10 Canonic Studies, Op.12 (pdf 1.2MB)
• Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op.28, First edition, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, n.d.(ca.1839). Plate 6088. (pdf 4.6MB)
• Chopin: Complete Etudes Op. 10 and Op. 25, from Friedrich Chopin’s Werke. Band II, Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, n.d.[1879]. (pdf 9.5MB)
• August Alexander Klengel (1783–1852): Canons and Fugues (1854): Volume 1 (pdf 11.2MB)
• Klengel: Canons and Fugues (1854) Volume 2 (pdf 9.3MB)
• Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte (complete), ed. Kullak, C.F. Peters (pdf 11MB)

Thomas Tapper and Percy Goetschius: Essentials in Music History (1914)

IN PROGRESS: New digital edition by Jonathan Kulp, 2017