The website improvisedcounterpoint.com is a research-driven project by Vicente Parrilla, developed within his FWO-funded doctoral project Renaissance Improvised Counterpoint: Rethinking Concept, Cognition, and Aural Foundations (working title; FWO Project no. 11A9922N), conducted at KU Leuven / LUCA School of Arts / docARTES. The project examines how Renaissance improvised counterpoint, once a core performance skill, can be re-engaged today through integrated aural, practical, and scholarly approaches. The website serves as a digital and aural complement to the written doctoral dissertation.
Bringing together modern transcriptions and analytically annotated scores with extensive audio materials, the project explores how early musicians were trained to think, hear, and create polyphony in real time. By integrating source-based scholarship with practice-based research, it provides open-access resources designed to support both scholarly inquiry and historically informed musical practice.