part-writing

noun

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

Example Sentences

This is part-writing therapy, part-rant.

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The elaboration of the part-writing is dauntingly complex and can sound unvaried, but the incomplete chant-based Matthew Passion by Richard Davy makes a strong centrepiece, while for sheer contrapuntal virtuosity you cannot beat the oddest piece, the final 13-part canon by Robert Wylkynson.

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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.

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The part-writing is always graceful, and often very ingenious, the inner parts melodious and interesting, and the whole effective.

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This trio, which was dedicated to Miss Ellen Terry, who was playing the Queen in this revival, is a beautiful example of the composer's happy knack of fitting music to exquisite words, and adding melody and real vocal part-writing.

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