Sean Mallone has a new blog called Contrapuntalism that I am certainly bookmarking and planning to visit often. This post has a very clever grid-type chart that helps clarify the various contrapuntal features of some often-used forms, particularly forms used in the baroque period. There's lots of stuff about pencils and music paper too.
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