part-writing
Britishnoun
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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
The form is concise and symmetrical, the part-writing is clear and well-balanced, and a "sunny sweetness" is the prevailing mood.
From Haydn by Hadden, J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert)
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 Gehrkens, Karl Wilson
One can see what Purcell had gained by his study of Italian part-writing for strings, but he could not help penning picturesque phrases.
From Purcell by Runciman, John F.
The part-writing is often exceedingly elaborate, but the most complicated concerted pieces flow on as naturally as a ballad.
From The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by Fuller-Maitland, J. A.
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