cooler than harmony

What's more, counterpoint is MUCH "cooler" than harmony, particularly
Western harmony. Counterpoint is LINEAR, it goes back to ancient
musics, melody and applies to NON-WESTERN composition. It can be
particularly applicable to xenharmonic composition... It's not as
"definitionally" tied up with Western-type music as tradition harmony
"rules" (even though the great... even good... composers always
broke those). Counterpoint takes in just about everything, whereas
harmony, particularly WESTERN harmony is just a little slice of the
pie charts!

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Joseph Pehrson

--- In tuning@y..., jpehrson@r... wrote:
> What's more, counterpoint is MUCH "cooler" than harmony,
particularly
> Western harmony. Counterpoint is LINEAR, it goes back to ancient
> musics, melody and applies to NON-WESTERN composition. It can be
> particularly applicable to xenharmonic composition... It's not as
> "definitionally" tied up with Western-type music as tradition
harmony
> "rules" (even though the great... even good... composers always
> broke those). Counterpoint takes in just about everything, whereas
> harmony, particularly WESTERN harmony is just a little slice of the
> pie charts!
>
> ________ _____ ______ __
> Joseph Pehrson

Yes, yes - YES!!!

Now your talking!

JL