Tim BraithwaiteJuan de Lucena on those who Improvise Counterpoint ‘por uso’ (1463)‘The Music, lovely science, awakens the spirits and comforts people. There is nothing as sweet as hearing different voices intoned...
Tim BraithwaiteThe Twenty Tests for Applicants for the Post of Choirmaster at Toledo Cathedral in 1604'[Improvise] free [suelto] counterpoint on a plainsong in the bass, as well as concerted [counterpoint], showing two voices on the...
Tim BraithwaiteCoclico on Learning how to Improvise on a Plainchant (1552):'Having learned these species [of intervals] and the method, here is how we ought to use them. The boy should provide himself with a...