The Importance of Counterpoint

Counterpoint is really the creation of one line, one melody, against a bunch of other dots that are used to create another melody. It's for this reason that counterpoint is imitative because we need to all be having the same conversation if we're going to be talking with one another right? This brings me to the term voice because when we speak about counterpoint, we say this fugue has four voices. Well, it doesn't necessarily mean that four people are seeing it. And so instead of just chanting all the words, you know, dumine clammaviate de profundis dumine, which is, by the way, how you get through all the