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part-writing

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noun

  1. music the aspect of composition concerned with the writing of parts, esp counterpoint

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Listeners found them equally able when they undertook the complicated part-writing of Orlandus de Lassus and Tallis.

From Time Magazine Archive

In his day it was regarded as imperative to perfect the harmonic structure of part-writing.

From Johann Sebastian Bach by Johann Nikolaus Forkel

If you don't care for the fugal passages and part-writing in the Graner Mass or in the organ music, then there is nothing more to be said.

From Franz Liszt by James Huneker

This duet is full of clever bits of imitation and good contrapuntal part-writing, and is melodious as well.

From Shakespeare and Music by Christopher Wilson

The fermata was first used in imitative part-writing to show where each part was to stop, but with the development of harmonic writing the present practice was inaugurated.

From Music Notation and Terminology by Karl Wilson Gehrkens

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