14: Accompanimental Textures
Chapter 14 Accompanimental Textures
In this chapter we will focus on common accompanimental textures. This chapter does not make an attempt to catalog every known accompanimental texture. Instead, it is meant to encourage you to listen to texture more closely and increase your musical awareness.
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- 14.1: Texture
- We will consider texture in terms of vertical and horizontal elements. The vertical nature of texture relates to the number of notes occurring simultaneously as harmonies. It could also relate to the number of voices or instruments performing melodies simultaneously in a contrapuntal texture. The horizontal element of texture relates to rhythmic activity: is the most common rhythmic value in a passage a slow or fast one?