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In his Liber de Artis Contrapuncti he establishes eight rules to contrapunctal composition:
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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The combination of the voices, like the harmonic progression of the music as a whole, is controlled by varying degrees of consonance and dissonance and governed by the rules of contrapunctal partwriting.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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Much like the contrapunctal interplay of baroque music!
"Abstinence allowed me to get rid of the garbage internally and externally." Ann Althouse 2009
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Much like the contrapunctal interplay of baroque music!
"Abstinence allowed me to get rid of the garbage internally and externally." Ann Althouse 2009
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