The Pignus Futurae Gloriae movement of his Litaniae de venerabili on IMSLP seems decent on score:īut sadly, there aren't that many recordings of this piece and his music in general out there. Peter Schubert pointed out that the term 'counterpoint' in Renaissance treatises did not mean written composition: instead it meant improvised polyphony for singers (2002, 503).(1) He started to figure out what musicians could improvise, and how they did it: he taught himself to do it, and taught Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style. "Leopold admonished his son openly in 1777 that he not forget to make public demonstration of his abilities in "fugue, canon, and contrapunctus." "In the Missa in A (ca.1765), in the manner of the times, Leopold Mozart blends baroque and gallant stylistic elements and through formal structure and an expressive musical language he gives the Credo a special importance." ![]() ![]() "Of the manuscript compositions by Herr Mozart which have become known, numerous contrapuntal and other church pieces are especially noteworthy." improvisation in the late medieval, renaissance, and early baroque periods.
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