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  2. Counterpoint - Wikipedia

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    Species counterpoint generally offers less freedom to the composer than other types of counterpoint and therefore is called a "strict" counterpoint. The student gradually attains the ability to write free counterpoint (that is, less rigorously constrained counterpoint, usually without a cantus firmus) according to the given rules at the time ...

  3. Cambiata - Wikipedia

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    In species counterpoint, the dissonant cambiata can be called an idiom in that it is considered an acceptable pattern even though it breaks a rule, in this case, that of skipping from a dissonance. The dissonance in the dissonant cambiata is approached by descending step and occurs on a weak half or quarter of the beat; the skip from the ...

  4. Counterpoint (Schenker) - Wikipedia

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    Counterpoint (Kontrapunkt in the original German) is the second volume of Heinrich Schenker's New Musical Theories and Fantasies (the first is Harmony and the third is Free Composition). It is divided into two "Books", the first published in 1910, and the second in 1922. The subject matter of the work is species counterpoint.

  5. Counterpoint: Disney’s Girlboss ‘Cruella’ Actually Rules

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    DisneyAt every second of its (checks notes; couldn’t be true) two-hour-and-14-minute running time, Cruella—and Cruella, the new Disney origin story tracing the cartoon villain’s roots to ...

  6. Johann Joseph Fux - Wikipedia

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    (Occasionally, in modern counterpoint textbooks, the third and fourth species are reversed with suspensions being taught before four notes against one.) Fux expressed the intention of adding sections on how to write counterpoint for more than four parts, indicating that rules in this area were to be "less rigorously observed".

  7. Peter Westergaard's tonal theory - Wikipedia

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    4th chapter of ITT is devoted to species counterpoint, an old western tradition of composing music consisting of simple lines with uniform rhythm. Westergaard presented formal grammars to construct/parse species lines. According to him, there are three types of lines: primary line, generic line, and the bass line.

  8. Consecutive fifths - Wikipedia

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    However, parallel motion in perfect consonances (P1, P5, P8) is strictly forbidden in species counterpoint instruction (1725–present), [2] and during the common practice period, consecutive fifths were strongly discouraged.

  9. Biological rules - Wikipedia

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    Biological rules and laws are often developed as succinct, broadly applicable ways to explain complex phenomena or salient observations about the ecology and biogeographical distributions of plant and animal species around the world, though they have been proposed for or extended to all types of organisms. Many of these regularities of ecology ...