Composing Counterpoint

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In this course, students will develop the art of composing and combining multiple melodies harmoniously. Skill in this art will be developed and reinforced primarily through cycles of composing, performing, and revising student compositions and secondarily through short textbook readings and composer-oriented analyses of model works (including J. S. Bach, Max Reger, and Agustín Barrios). Students can expect to compose instrumental pattern preludes, passacaglias, canons at various intervals, two-part inventions, fugues, and a Brazilian choro.