counterpoint
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Notes On Musical Tensions and Canon Counterpoints
Notation for Le Ray Au Soleyl by Johannes Ciconia (c. 1390s) What is it that keeps your attention when you encounter a music? Is it its instrumentation and timbre world? Its performers (human or machine)? Its melodies? Its chords and harmonies? Its feel and vibe? Its sheer volume? (That bass!) Its rhythms that make you Continue reading
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Influence And Style Traces: Moondog’s “Pacific Ocean (Rain Forest) (no date) and Steve Reich’s “Nagoya Marimbas” (1994)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Reich Continue reading
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Counterpoint
Lessons on how to live are everywhere sounding in the relationships among human part-writing watch how people move their melodies along with and against the tunes of others to create reluctant harmony or passing polyrhythm notes interdependent yet disguised as offset, mirror, retrograde, inversion following rules to avoid parallel thoughts and move in contrary motion Continue reading
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