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Johannes Tinctoris developed eight rules for this discipline in his three-book (15[1])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. (15[1])It’s not (-5[1])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, which was grouped into five “species” by the author of Gradus ad Parnassum. (10[1])This (10[1])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■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: counterpoint [accept word forms like contrapuntal; prompt on polyphony or music or composition]
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