The musical explorations of Igor Stravinsky, e.g., The Rite of Spring, once got him branded as a wild-eyed futurist. Long since overtaken on the innovation front, he has for many years now been ...

One of the biggest pop songs of the year, given a thoroughly contrapuntal makeover. I'm in love with the shape of... *fugue* Here's an expert contrapuntal rendering of Ed Sheeran's 2017 hit. Composer ...

Pure musical inspiration as a jazz song overflows with Baroque counterpoint, with the effortless cool that could only come from Nina Simone. We know Nina Simone as an icon of 20th-century music: a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Arnold Schoenberg's 1911 précis for a book on counterpoint called Das Komponieren mit selbständige Stimmen presages his interest in and return ...