part-writing

Historical Examples of part-writing

• Themes, part-writing and harmony are closely bound up in one another, and harmony is not the least important.

  Purcell

  John F. Runciman

• Harmony was virtually unknown in antiquity, and without a knowledge of part-writing no independent art of music is possible.

  Music in the History of the Western Church

  Edward Dickinson

• The part-writing is often exceedingly elaborate, but the most complicated concerted pieces flow on as naturally as a ballad.

  The Opera

  R.A. Streatfeild

• If one can get over the thinness of the part-writing, especially in the slow movements, there is much to enjoy in them.

  The Pianoforte Sonata

  J.S. Shedlock

• The form is concise and symmetrical, the part-writing is clear and well-balanced, and a "sunny sweetness" is the prevailing mood.

  Haydn

  J. Cuthbert Hadden