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part-writing

noun

  1. music the aspect of composition concerned with the writing of parts, esp counterpoint
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

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.

The melody is simple and beautiful, the counter-melodies are equally taking, and the part-writing is very skilful.

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