Word: counterpointing
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Corporate Counterpoint...
That CBS was out to rival RCA in every way, young Mr. Paley neither denied nor affirmed. Merely pointing out that record sales are currently booming, he preferred to relate a curious little chapter of corporate counterpoint: one of American Record Corp.'s subsidiaries is famed old Columbia Phonograph Co. which dipped CBS into the baptismal fount eleven years ago, sold the little starveling three months later...
...development of music printing. In the first fifty years after printing was invented, from 1450 to 1500, no effective system was discovered for writing notes; but, in 1503, Ottavino dei Petrucci contrived movable type of sufficient accuracy to cope with the demands of the elaborate new "florid song," or counterpoint. There is shown a unique selection of Petrucci's editions, which required separate impressions for letters, staffs, and notes...
Texas Shuffle (Count Basic; Decca). An excellent example of Basic's exciting counterpoint background...
Prim Music-mentor Boulanger writes no music herself. Teaching other musicians to write is her fulltime job. In her earlier years she taught the ABC's of composition, pushed adolescent hopefuls through courses in elementary harmony and counterpoint, the grammar and syntax of music. But nowadays she ir besieged by full-fledged composers who have outgrown their schoolbooks, need expert advice on polishing off finished compositions...