What Is Counterpoint?

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Example	First unnumbered example.
Example	Second unnumbered example.
Example	Third unnumbered example.
Example	Fourth unnumbered example.
Example 2	Petrus dictus Palma ociosa, musical example of “contrapunctum” in Compendium de discantu mensurabili (c.1336).
Example 6a	Petrus dictus Palma ociosa, “the first mode of measured discant adorned with flowerets.”
Example 6b	note against note reduction of Petrus dictus Palma ociosa’s first mode of measured discant.
Example 7a	Philippe de Vitry, isorhythmic motet Firmissime fidem / Adesto / Alleluya (1310s).
Example 7b	reduction of sonorities per mensural unit in Vitry, Firmissime.
Example 8a	Philippe de Vitry, isorhythmic motet Petre clemens / Lugentium siccentur / [Tenor] (1342).
Example 8b	note against note reduction of Vitry Petre clemens.

The Cantus Planus Setting and the Art of Improvisation

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Example 1	Introit Resurrexi et adhuc tecum sum, from the Mass for Easter Sunday, with contraponti all’improuiso as printed in Chamateṛ di Negri, Li introiti (1574).
Example 4a	Johannes Tinctoris, Liber de arte contrapuncti (1477), III. iv, first musical example.
Example 4b	Johannes Tinctoris, Liber de arte contrapuncti (1477), III. iv, second musical example.
Example 5	Johannes Tinctoris, Liber de arte contrapuncti (1477), II. xxi, first musical example.
Example 6	Anonymous, Viri Galilei, LonBL Add. 17802-5 (Gyffard Partbooks), 65.