On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips@woh.rr.com> wrote:

On 02/14/2013 10:31 AM, Paul Davis wrote:

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips@woh.rr.com> wrote:

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

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.