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Music Music Fundamentals Music Composition

Composing Counterpoint

Learn to compose proper counterpoint in order to write like the classical masters or improve your pop/jazz arrangements.
Rating: 3.7 out of 53.7 (49 ratings)
400 students
Created by Jan-Pieter Rooij
Last updated 6/2014
English
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What you'll learn

  • By the end of the course, you will be able to write flawless academic counterpoint in multiple parts and you will be able to use several neat counterpoint devices such as inversion and imitation.

Requirements

  • Should be able to read music notation

Description

There is one thing all great classical composers and jazz/pop arrangers have in common: they have a good working knowledge of counterpoint. In this course, you will learn everything you need to write proper, academic counterpoint. In addition, you'll learn some cool contrapuntal tricks like inversion and imitation.

This course is suitable for both complete beginners to composition and advanced musicians/composers who find they are lacking in counterpoint knowledge. The only prerequisite is that you should be able to read music notation. This course is particularly useful for pop/jazz musicians. In these genres, people with proper contrapuntal skills can be hard to come by, so by learning these skills you can put yourself apart from the crowd.

For almost every lecture, there will be one or more exercises. These exercises can be sent to the instructor in order to have them checked personally. (!) This is a rare feature for online courses. If you are currently following composition in university, this course can be a great help since it provides a clear overview of the topic and you can get your homework checked by the instructor before you hand it in.

Who this course is for:

  • The only prerequisite for this course is that you should be able to read music notation. This course is meant for composers and musicians in all genres who want to learn how to use counterpoint in their compositions.

Featured review

Patrick Regan
Patrick Regan
416 courses
8 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 5a year ago
This is a very good course. The author steps through basic counterpoint in a careful and clear way. Each module builds on the previous ones. The author also promises to grade the exercises he gives; I took him up on the offer and received corrected exercises promptly. There are not many courses on counterpoint on Udemy, so I am glad the author of this course took the time to get it right.

Course content

3 sections • 10 lectures • 49m total length

  • Preview05:26
  • Preview06:33

  • First Species Counterpoint: One to one
    06:39
  • Second Species Counterpoint: Two to one
    04:08
  • Third Species Counterpoint: Four to one
    04:34
  • Fourth Species Counterpoint: Suspension dissonances
    03:48
  • Fifth Species Counterpoint: Florid counterpoint
    03:33
  • Counterpoint with three melodies
    03:38

  • Invertible Counterpoint
    06:59
  • Imitative Counterpoint
    03:52

Instructor

Jan-Pieter Rooij
MSc Student in Computer Science, Music and Math
Jan-Pieter Rooij
  • 3.7 Instructor Rating
  • 49 Reviews
  • 400 Students
  • 1 Course

I am currently a full-time MSc student majoring in music, computer science and mathematics. My areas of expertise include contrapuntal composition, computer science and classical piano performance. In composition I'm mostly interested in baroque and late renaissance composers such as J.S. Bach and Palestrina. In computer science my areas of expertise include programming and algorithm design. In piano performance I play a wide variety of genres including blues and jazz, but my specialization lies in romanticism. Next to this I am an avid blues/rock guitar player and a (visual) arts enthusiast.

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