COUNTERPOINT

Pears Shilling Cyclopedia · 1898 · p. 72

is a term equivalent to harmony, or the writing of a carefully-planned accompanying part. Counterpoint is divided into (1) simple, (2) florid or figurate, (3) double. It is the art by which a musical thought is developed, embellished, trans- CRAB posed, repeated, or imitated throughout the different