Download or read book Modal and Tonal Counterpoint written by Harold Owen and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1992 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive study of the development of counterpoint form the sixteenth century through the first half of the twentieth century. Deriving the rules of counterpoint from the music itself, each chapter begins with a complete musical example followed by questions for class discussion. Chapter observations and subsequent musical examples amplify the concepts discoverd through individual analysis. --book cover.