Music GCSE
Imitation and contrapuntal writing
What Imitation and contrapuntal writing means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Imitation and contrapuntal writing
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Independent interweaving lines that imitate or copy one another give polyphonic or contrapuntal texture, as when each voice enters in turn with the same tune.
Topics that use Imitation and contrapuntal writing
- Appendix 3: Musical vocabulary - Sonority and texture (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Accompaniment and harmony
- Basso continuo
- Changes of sonority
- Figured bass realisation
- Homophonic
- Listening and identification
- Monophonic
- Monophonic, homophonic and polyphonic textures
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