Date of Award
12-2017
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Music
First Advisor
Dr. Matthew Steel
Second Advisor
Dr. Alexander Cannon
Third Advisor
Dr. Rand Johnson
Keywords
Johann Joseph Fux, counterpoint, composition, Gradus ad Parnassum, edition
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
The seminal eighteenth-century counterpoint treatise Gradus ad Parnassum by Johann Joseph Fux exists in Latin, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and a host of other languages in its entirely, but in English only the second book of two has been translated, and even that is available only in a collection of partial translations. While a complete English translation is well beyond the scope of this project, toward that end, this research makes a case for its completion and provides a modernized edition and commentary of the as-yet-untranslated first book.
Recommended Citation
Schulte, Sara Miller, "Gradus ad Parnassum: A Reader's Edition and Commentary" (2017). Masters Theses. 1993.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/1993