Sunday, December 10, 2006

Counterpoint

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In music, counterpoint is a texture involving the simultaneous sounding of separate melodies or lines "against" each other, as in polyphony. It has most commonly been identified in Western music, developing strongly in the Renaissance, and also dominant in much of the common practice period, especially in Baroque music. The term comes from the Latin punctus contra punctum ("note against note"). The adjectival form contrapuntal shows this Latin source more transparently.
Principles of counterpoint
Musical forms
CE
Dolmetsch Online - Music Theory Online - Counterpoint
Counterpoint for Everyone

Polyphony
wiki
13th century polyphony

Medieval music: birth of polyphony


Misc
Counterpoint Chamber Chorus
Polyphony choir and orchestra
University of Chicago Graduate Music Society
Palestrina choir

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