14 Feb
2013
14 Feb
'13
4:42 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com>wrote;wrote:
On 02/14/2013 10:31 AM, Paul Davis wrote:
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com>wrote;wrote:
i definitely meant the vertical sonority. it seems to me that two (or more)
melodic lines that have no harmonic (vertical sonority-sense) relationship
to each other do not form what people would call "counterpoint". and that
is independent of whatever definition of "harmony" you might prefer. this
is why i tend to think of it as the collision of the two disciplines, or
more poetically, the entanglement.
Picturesque, but not historically accurate,
I'm sure you know. More like,
where melody and melody collided. :)
if line 1 and line 2 do not intersect in a harmonious way, is it still
counterpoint? would anyone call it that?
Since "harmonious" is a loaded term - are we referring to a vertical
sonority