WebFacts More WebFacts    WebFacts 1 The counterpoint exercises of Mozart's student Thomas Attwood are preserved in the "Attwood Notebook" volume of the Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (Complete Works of W. A. Mozart), series X, work 30, volume 1. Mozart did not know much English (Attwood's native language) nor Attwood much German-most of the written comments are in Italian-but the few words in English that Mozart did know expressed what he thought of Attwood's not-so-good counterpoint! Bach did not leave any treatises, but we do have several sets of music that he used to teach his sons, daughters, and wife. The two-part inventions and the "Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook," series V, volumes 3 and 4 of the Neue Bach Ausgabe (Bach's complete works), are among the materials he used. For more on Bach's counterpoint exercises, see Ellwood Derr, "The Two-Part Inventions: Bach's Composer's Vademecum," Music Theory Spectrum 3 (1981): 26-48.

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