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Counterpoint Applied
By Percy Goetschius, Royal Wurtermberg Professor
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Synopsis
Covers the Invention, Fugue, Canon & other Polyphonic Forms

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Preface

Purpose - Preface
Introduction
Section One - The Fundamental Principles of the Simple
Chapter 1 - Condition 1
Chapter 2 - Condition 2
Chapter 3 - Condition 3
Chapter 4 - Development of Thematic Resources and Various Modes of Imitation
Chapter 5 - The Two-Voice Invention
Chapter 6 - The Contrapuntal Association of Three
Chapter 7 - The Three-Voice Invention
Chapter 8 - The Invention for More Than Three Voices
Chapter 9 - Free Polyphonic Forms; the Invention as Prelude; the Fantasia, Toccata, Etc
Chapter 10 - The Small Species of Chorale-Figuration
Chapter 11 - The Large Species of Chorale-Figuration
Chapter 12 - The Four-Voice Fugue; the Exposition
Chapter 13 - The Fugue With Less or More Than Four
Chapter 14 - Miscellaneous Varieties of the Fugue-Form;
Chapter 15 - The Double Fugue
Chapter 16 - The Triple-Fugue
Chapter 17 - The Round, or Round-Canon
Chapter 18 - The Progressive Canon
Chapter 19 - The Two-Voice Canon, Accompanied
Chapter 20 - The Canon for More Than Two Parts
Chapter 21 - The Double-Canon, Etc.
Chapter 22 - Canon as Chorale-Elaboration
Appendix - Klengel: 20 Canons and Fugues

The Author of Counterpoint Applied
Very little is known about Percy Goetschius, but his list of students was a true Who’s Who of composers and composers whose lives spanned into the early 21st Century. Outside of Nadia Boulanger, it’s doubtful that any other single music teacher has had such a profound impact on his students as Percy Goetschius did.

What we know of Dr. Goetschius we found on line through the Passaic County Historical Society, Lambert Castle, in Paterson, NJ.

Percy Goetschius is a native Patersonian who has won international fame in the teaching of the theory of composition. Born in this city in 1853, he was piano pupil of Robert E. H. Gehring, a prominent teacher of that era. Mr. Goetschius was the organist of the Second Presbyterian Church 1868-1870 and of the First Presbyterian 1870-73, and pianist of Mr. Benson’s Paterson Choral Society. He went to Stuttgart, Wurtenberg, in 1873 to study in the conservatory, and soon advanced to the teaching ranks. The King conferred upon him the title of royal professor. He composed much, and reviewed performances for the press. In 1892 he took a like position in the New England Conservatory, Boston, and four years later opened a studio in that city. In 1905 he went to the staff of the New York Institute of Music and Art, headed by Dr. Frank Damrosch. Prof. Goetschius has published nine textbooks on theory, which are accepted as standards in the musical world.

Dr. Goetschius died in Manchester NH October 29, 1943.

Here’s a partial list of Dr. Goetschius’ students and online material on or by them:
Pauline Alderman
Samuel L.M. Barlow
Samuel Gardner
Howard Hanson
Eva Jessye
Arthur Loessser (brother was Frank Loesser, the Broadway composer)
Daniel Gregory Mason
Pierre Maurice
Leo Ornstein
Wallingford Riegger
Richard Rodgers
Zygmund Przemyslaw Rondomanski
Arthur Shepherd