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  • 3 - Fauré as Student and Teacher of Harmony

  • Edited by Carlo Caballero, University of Colorado Boulder, Stephen Rumph, University of Washington
  • Book:
    Fauré Studies
    Published online:
    17 April 2021
    Print publication:
    22 April 2021, pp 59-79

  • Summary

    Understanding the training of professional musicians in nineteenth-century France may require some conceptual adjustments. Words that seem to mean one thing for us today can actually have meant something rather different then. Accompagnement, for instance, meant practical keyboard harmony and thoroughbass, harmonie meant practical counterpoint, and contrepoint meant imitative counterpoint in the form of fugues and canons. As we shall see below, when Gabriel Fauré wrote a harmony exercise in which he provided the bass and a student was to add the implied tenor, alto, and soprano voices, he intended it to be completed as an informal type of fugue, the locus classicus of counterpoint. “Counterpoint” was a word deeply rooted in the practices of trained medieval monks who could improvise a series of points (= notes) against (Lat. contra) the notes of a Gregorian chant.