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COUNTERPOINT

Organist and Master of the Choirsters of Westminster Abbey; Professor of Harmony and Counterpoint at the Royal College of Music; Examiner in Music for the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, Durham, and the Victoria University; Gresham Professor of Music.

My best thanks are due to Sir John Goss, for kindly allowing me to insert several examples, written in 1864, when I was receiving instruction from him in counterpoint; to H. Keeton, Esp., Mus. Doc., Organist of Peterborough Cathedral, for Examples 121, 122, 127; and to James Higgs, Esp., Mus. Bac., Hon. Sec. of the Musical Association, for many valuable suggestions.

~ J. F. B.

The Cloisters,
Westminster Abbey,
March, 1878.

To say that the musical primer Counterpoint by J. Frederick Bridge lacks popularity as a counterpoint text is a gross understatement. Indeed, I had never heard of it before stumbling across it on archive.org during the summer of 2017. So what is the reason for updating and digitizing a textbook that's over 100 years old?

For starters,

[Cost]

[Lilypond]

[This digital edition is not simply meant to merely be a recreation of the original. Had that been the case, I would have simply posted a link to the PDF for my students to use. Advantages over a PDF]

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