[Smt-talk] "strettobility"

[Peter Schubert, Prof.]

Bob Gauldin has a very good take on canon construction at short time intervals in his T&P article. John Milsom calls such canons "stretto fugas" and I have discussed and illustrated them in various places. Following the rules for first-species stretto fuga (they can be found in my Renaissance book, pp. 156-159) will produce a melody that can be embellished and that might sound convincing when sounded alone, but you have to compose the stretto first. Here are some sources on stretto fuga:

Butler, Gregory G. “The Fantasia as Musical Image,” Musical Quarterly 60/4 (1974): 602-615.
Cumming, Julie. “Composing Imitative Counterpoint around a cantus firmus: Two Motets by Heinrich Isaac.” Journal of Musicology, 28 (2011): 231–288.
Froebe, Folker. "Satzmodelle des Contrapunto alla mente und ihre Bedeutung für den Stilwandel um 1600'. Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, 4 (2007): 13-55.

Gauldin, Robert. “The Composition of Late Renaissance Stretto Canons,” Theory and Practice 21 (1996): 29-54.
Grimshaw, Julian. “Morley’s rule for first-species canon.” Early Music 34/4 (2006): 661-666.

Milsom, John. “‘Imitatio,’ ‘intertextuality’, and early music,” in Citation and authority in Medieval and Renaissance musical culture: Learning from the learned, ed. Suzannah Clark and Elizabeth Eva Leach (Boydell & Brewer Woodbridge, 2005): 141-51.

Milsom, John. “Josquin and the Combinative Impulse’ in The Motet around 1500, ed. Thomas Schmidt-Beste (Brepols: Turnhout, 2012): 187-222.

Porter, William. “Reconstructing 17th-century North German improvisational practice,” GOArt Research Reports 2 (2000): 25-39.

Schubert, Peter. “Counterpoint pedagogy in the Renaissance,” in The Cambridge history of Western music theory, ed. Thomas Christensen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002): 503-533.
Schubert, Peter. Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Schubert, Peter. “From Voice to Keyboard: Improvised Techniques in the Renaissance.” in Philomusica on-line [http://philomusica.unipv.it] 11/1(2012): 11-22.
Schubert, Peter. “Improvising a Renaissance Canon.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n01J393WpKk


Peter Schubert
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