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- What is imitative counterpoint in music?
- Is imitative counterpoint polyphony?
- What was developed through imitative counterpoint?
- What is imitative polyphony in music?
What is imitative counterpoint in music?
Imitative counterpoint involves the repetition of a main melodic idea across different vocal parts, with or without variation. Compositions written in free counterpoint often incorporate non-traditional harmonies and chords, chromaticism and dissonance.
Is imitative counterpoint polyphony?
Counterpoint Counterpoint is the interaction of voices in polyphonic texture. Imitative counterpoint occurs if one voice repeats or mimics the patterns just stated in another voice. A canonic process occurs if the anwering voice or voices repeat the lead voice exactly.
What was developed through imitative counterpoint?
Since the seventeenth century, the term fugue has described what is commonly regarded as the most fully developed procedure of imitative counterpoint.
What is imitative polyphony in music?
Imitative Polyphony PODCAST. A musical texture featuring two or more equally prominent, simultaneous melodic lines, those lines being similar in shape and sound.
