Charles W. Pearce
Published: 2015-06-26
Total Pages: 145
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Excerpt from Student's Counterpoint Some twenty years ago, an interesting series of articles entitled The Logic of Counterpoint, appeared from the pen of Dr. E. H. Turpin, in the columns of The Musical Standard - at that time the official organ of the (now Royal) College of Organists. The main object of these articles was to show that the Art of Counterpoint stands in exactly the same relation to Musicians in particular, as the Art of Logic stands to Mankind in general. This analogy has for many years appealed to me with considerable fascination; but since the issue of the first edition of my Students' Counterpoint, Dr. Turpin has kindly drawn my attention to Archbishop Whately's Elements of Logic. A reflective perusal of that standard work has more than ever convinced me, that the many points of likeness which exist between the Arts of Logic and Counterpoint are of so close a character, that musicians - who set any value upon their Art as supplying one of the mind-training processes of modern education - cannot afford to disregard so remarkable an analogy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.