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Contrapuntal Motion

Contrapuntal Motion is a systematic framework in voice-leading analysis that categorizes the relative movement of concurrent musical voices into distinct types—such as parallel, similar, contrary, and oblique—based on the direction and intervallic behavior of their pitch transitions.

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Voice-leading Motion

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Voice Function, Sonority, and Contrapuntal Procedure in Late Medieval Polyphony

Kevin N. Moll · Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University) · 1998 · 49 citations · Full text

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Tonal structure and the melodic role of chromatic inflections in the music of Machaut

Jennifer Bain · Plainsong and Medieval Music · 2005 · 32 citations

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Contrapuntal Technique in the Sixteenth Century

R. O. Morris · Music Supervisors Journal · 1927 · 30 citations

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Approaching renaissance music using Taneyev's theories of movable counterpoint

Denis Collins · Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland) · 2018 · 24 citations

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The Rhythms of Reiteration: Formal Development in Stravinsky's Ostinati

Gretchen Horlacher · Music Theory Spectrum · 1992 · 22 citations

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Authors

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  1. GH
    Gretchen Horlacher

    2 publications · 43 citations

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  2. PS
    Peter Schubert

    McGill University, Canada

    1 publications · 15 citations

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  3. PB
    Phillip B. Zarrilli

    National Trust, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 15 citations

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  4. KN
    Kevin N. Moll

    1 publications · 49 citations

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  5. CL
    Christopher Langlois

    1 publications · 15 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Indiana University

    Bloomington, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    17 citations

  2. Framingham State University

    Framingham, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

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  1. Music Theory Spectrum

    3 publications · 58 citations

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  2. The Musical Quarterly

    1 publications · 10 citations

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  3. Ariel

    1 publications · 15 citations

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  4. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University)

    Repository · 1 publications · 49 citations

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  5. Theatre topics

    TT · 1 publications · 15 citations

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