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Dylan Burnett
10-30-2004, 01:59 PM
Anybody ever played any? Or written anything in counter point for that matter? ( I salute you if you have) If so post it in the show off section. I've learnt one song in counter point, J.S Bach's Invention, and it's bloody brilliant. I'd post it but I don't have the ... Facilities... with which to do so.

Cheers
Liquid Shadow
10-30-2004, 02:47 PM
I've written quite a few quick diddlies using counterpoint...just writing excersises for my AP music theory course. I'll dig some of them up sometime and play them. It's nothing like Bach, just stuff like a whole-note bassline that was written out and then we had to write a counterpoint line using rules for the 16th or 17th century (depending on where we were at).

As far as playing counterpoint peices...I can play one Bach prelude and half-ass my way through one Bach invention (which I plan on working up sometime soon).
Dylan Burnett
10-30-2004, 03:20 PM
Wow, nice, yeah I didn't think anyone here was writing at Bach level... Maybe Rudess, but even That is shaky. Invention is fun as hell to play. Well I'd like to hear your counterpoint composition sometime.
Liquid Shadow
10-30-2004, 03:30 PM
Invention is fun as hell to play.

Tricky as hell too. :lol:
Poopshred
10-31-2004, 05:07 AM
I've written a lot of counterpoint compisitions. Inventions, Fugue and also.... *shivers* a Canon, the canon was NOT a piece of cake to write. :)
ImaX
10-31-2004, 08:41 AM
...sorry, maybe I just don't know the german word.. what's counterpoint?
Dylan Burnett
10-31-2004, 03:41 PM
Counterpoint is when the melody constantly changes between the right and left hand. Yeah.
Ael
10-31-2004, 06:48 PM
Sorry, wrong.

Counterpoint is the vertical interaction between a cantus firmus (fixed melody) and harmony either written below. Please get your facts straight.
ImaX
11-01-2004, 04:29 AM
Ah - so I'll leave it with beeing a rock musician :D
Dylan Burnett
11-01-2004, 07:50 PM
Well I cant describe it, but I can play it :P. Its what he said.
Angelic Layer
11-02-2004, 08:01 AM
What do you call 2 guitarists playing unison?

-Counterpoint!
7of9
11-02-2004, 03:00 PM
No, that's called unisono. Counterpoint has at least two different parts
Ael
11-02-2004, 03:14 PM
No, that's called unisono. Counterpoint has at least two different parts

OMG!!11 IT WAZ A JOXORZ!!! HAHA11
Dylan Burnett
11-02-2004, 07:39 PM
I are confused. Screw you all, I pWnxorz Inventio #8.


OMFG bach is so 1337. Man all these "1337" keyboardists are creeping me out.... And here I am thinking you were all a bunch of dignified musicians, with monocles, and top hats and such
Angelic Layer
11-03-2004, 04:36 AM
No, that's called unisono. Counterpoint has at least two different partsI do mean that its a sarcsm joke.