Polyphony
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Polyphony is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice or a texture with one dominant melodic vo
Polyphony in a 10th-century manuscript of Musica enchiriadis
Albanian polyphonic folk group wearing qeleshe and fustanella in Skrapar
Counterpoint
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In music theory, counterpoint is the relationship of two or more simultaneous musical lines that are harmonically dependent on each other, yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour. The term origi
Polyphony
…refer to music of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Baroque forms such as fugue, which might be called polyphonic, are usually described instead as contrapuntal. Also, as opposed to the species terminology of counterpoint, polyphony was generally either "pitch-against-pitch" (sometimes called "point-against-point…
Gradus ad Parnassum (1725) by Johann Joseph Fux defines the modern system of teaching counterpoint
Example of a descending double neighbor figure against a cantus firmus