Johannes Tinctoris developed eight rules for this discipline in his three-book treatise on it. The most common taxonomy of this discipline was anticipated in Girolamo Diruta’s dialogue Il Transilvano. An author cited gout as the reason for not explaining a complex form of this discipline in a work where he discusses a “florid” type of this discipline with his master Aloysius. It’s not ballet, but (*) echappée and cambiata are introduced to students at higher levels of this technique. Oblique and contrary are two of three classifications for motion within this discipline, (10[1])which was grouped into five “species” by the author of Gradus ad Parnassum. (10[1])This technique is usually achieved by building from a cantus firmus. For 10 points, name this discipline codified by music theorists like Johann Fux, which describes the independent motion of two melodic parts. ■END■