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 melody is simple and beautiful, the counter-melodies are equally taking, and the part-writing is very skilful.
From Shakespeare and Music by Wilson, Christopher
In his day it was regarded as imperative to perfect the harmonic structure of part-writing.
From Johann Sebastian Bach by Forkel, Johann Nikolaus
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 Huneker, James
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
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