I haven’t thought about the theories of point and
counterpoint, as in musical structure, in a long time. If those are unfamiliar terms,
think of a song's melody. The counterpoint occurs when musically a juxtaposition
of a new melody is woven into and on top of the first. Without going into
the weeds of canons, fourths and fugues; these two independent melody lines
play together in a piece of music, each complimenting the other.
Yesterday evening out for a walk in this still deliciously cool
June weather, I was enjoying the beautiful sky and the forming sunset. The shoots of pink and orange caught my attention as big audacious brushes of
color fanned across the sky to create mammoth rays. It wasn’t for some time
after admiring those bands of color that I noticed that there were much more
subtle lines of blue crossing the rays. Independently there and yet part of the
whole picture.
That was when it hit me - it is point and counterpoint! Two
melodic views have been joined together to create one whole, each complimenting
the other in an artistic God created vision of beauty.
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