vertical/horizontal/motherlode

Any pitch in a score is participating in both vertical and horizontal
relationships, unless the score is one-dimensional. Therefore it doesn't
make sense to talk about having different sets of pitches for horizontal
and vertical sonorities.

Of course, homophony provides for one "melody" and one can reserve a
subset of the pitches for this and another subset for everything else.
But even so, the non-melody parts will have horizontal movement of their
own, as well as diagonal ("cross-") relations with the melody itself.

In contrapuntal music, all harmony is generated by the melody
intertwining with its own imitations. In such a context, one needs a
single set of pitches to provide all the melodic, harmonic, and diagonal
ingredients of the piece.


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