Serge Ivanovitch Taneiev's Convertible Counterpoint In the Strict Style published in 1909 is now accessible for the original occurrence in English! The English Translation is of the maximum great writing of all time typewritten on agreeable oeuvre. G. Ackley Brower translated the work, set to be the maximum ever longhand in its paddock. As a textbook on composition, it has been importantly suggested by Dr. Serge Koussevitzky, who wrote the Introduction, Serge Rachmaninoff, Leopold Godowsky, Gregor Piatigorsky, and others. Reading the enumerate of those government would, in itself, uphold that any one-on-one who is a sensible scholarly person of auditory communication background should pilfer plus of this new possibleness to get the workbook.
I at the double high spot that the photo album assumes education of simple polyphony on the subdivision of the reader. "The cram of vertical-shifting polyphony consists of an probe of those combinations from which derivatives are obtained by medium of moving the voices upward or sliding." (p. 25) Taneiev has formed a course by which the enquiry of polyphony is put on a proof of f. mathematics; i.e., an algebraical principle for a guess of complex concerted music. Rimsky-Korsakov wrote that it would look that his scheme ought to issue in a dry and scholarly composition, devoid of the shadowiness of inspiration. In reality, however, "his own Oresteia proved to a certain extent the reverse-for all its controlling premeditation, the classical music was impressive in its sumptuousness of make-up and expression." (p. 1) Indeed, Igor Stravinsky adds, "Taneiev was a favorable teacher, and his written material on counterpoint-one of the finest books of its kind-was notably quantitative by me in my juvenile person.