music-glossary: counterpoint
1.70 counterpoint
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ES: contrapunto, I: contrappunto, F: contrepoint, D: Kontrapunkt, NL:
contrapunt, DK: kontrapunkt, S: kontrapunkt, FI: kontrapunkti, ääni
ääntä vastaan.
From Latin _punctus contra punctum_, note against note. The
combination into a single musical fabric of lines or parts which have
distinct melodic significance. A frequently used polyphonic technique
is imitation, in its strictest form found in the canon needing only one
part to be written down while the other parts are performed with a given
displacement. Imitation is also the contrapuntal technique used in the
_fugue_ which, since the music of the baroque era, has been one of the
most popular polyphonic composition methods.
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