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    Ad Parnassum is a pointillist painting by Swiss-born artist Paul Klee. The painting is currently in the Kunstmuseum Bern. It was created while Klee was...
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  • The Latin phrase gradus ad Parnassum means "a step towards Parnassus". It is sometimes shortened to gradus. Parnassus is the prominence of a mountain range...
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  • ad Parnassum Problems playing this file? See media help. The title of the first movement alludes to sets of piano exercises of that name (Gradus ad Parnassum...
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    is not a musical composition but his treatise on counterpoint, Gradus ad Parnassum, which has become the single most influential book on the Palestrinian...
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    invertible counterpoint. In 1725 Johann Joseph Fux published Gradus ad Parnassum (Steps to Parnassus), in which he described five species: Note against...
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    known for his piano sonatas, and his collection of piano studies, Gradus ad Parnassum. Nineteenth century enthusiasts lauded Clementi as "the father of the...
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    18th-century composer and theorist Johann Joseph Fux, published as Gradus ad Parnassum (Steps to Parnassus, 1725). Citing Palestrina as his model, Fux divided...
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  • Gradus ad Parnassum next to the first one by Lorenz Christoph Mizler in 1742. In 1943, Mann made the first real translation of Gradus ad Parnassum into...
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    “Some Preliminaries in Approaching Carlos Seixas’ Keyboard Sonatas.” Ad Parnassum: A Journal of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music 7...
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    In 1826 Clementi completed his collection of keyboard studies, Gradus ad Parnassum, and set off for Paris with the intention of publishing the third volume...
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