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What are some piano works that use counterpoint?
What are some piano works that use counterpoint?
What are some piano works that use counterpoint?
there are lots.
First, define counterpoint. I personally think counterpoint begins when there are at least two different phrases at the same time, period. So there is counterpoint in Haydn's and Mozart's piano works.
To some people, music is contrapuntal only when there are some kind of imitation (canon or fugue)...
Anyway, famous examples (I assume that by piano you meant "from 1750 to today", so I won't include Sweelinck's fantasia or Bach's WTC):
Beethoven, Hammerklavier, the fugue section in the last movement
Liszt, Sonata in B-minor
Franck, the Fugue from the Prelude, Choral and Fugue
There are also Reicha's 36 fugues, who are quite a curiosity. I remember one with repeated notes as a subject, which sounded very avant-garde.
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The second one (n18)
Last edited by Praeludium; Jun-01-2012 at 22:33.
Take any of Godowsky, that crazy Lithuanian. Any work. He wrote counter voices all the time. You'll need a very powerful left hand to play his works.
What are some piano works that don't use counterpoint?
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in over-alls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
Try the beginning (and main) melody of this sonata. Left hand and right hand bounce off of each other.
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Here's one.Originally Posted by Klavierspieler
http://youtu.be/HiwPzHJ-Pic
Actually, that does use simple counterpoint. There are four separate voices moving at different times.
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in over-alls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
It woul be difficult to compose a piece devoid of counterpoint with several voices anyway.
Early Organum ftw.
Last edited by Klavierspieler; Jun-02-2012 at 03:47.
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in over-alls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
That's still a melody against a melody.Early Organum ftw.
Not really, they're doing exactly the same thing, just separated by an interval.
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in over-alls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
That's still a melody against a melody.
No, that is not counterpoint.
There is a little bit of counterpoint in that Chopin prelude that you posted.
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