Sound & colour : their relations, analogies & harmonies (1869)
Macdonald, John Denis, 1826-1908, Royal College of Surgeons of England · London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer · leaf 36
AND COLOUR. chords in Diagrams V to X, inclusive, are available, and they will afford the composer sufficient materials to furnish parts with the double advantage of having a theme in themselves, without infringing rules. Those chords taken singly will support any of their own parts. Hence any note… … In plain counter point, the notes of tbe parts added are of uniform length with those of the subject ; but where it is florid" the notes are of different lengths, and variously intermixed at least in one of the parts. In the latter case attention must be paid to the accented parts of each bar, so…
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