Many composers since have studied the way that Palestrina wrote, because this is an excellent way to learn to write contrapuntal music.
He was very interested in contrapuntal music of the Baroque period.
Each is like a separate sound track or voice, like contrapuntal music, like Bach.
In traditional contrapuntal Western music, voice leading is generally derived from the rules and patterns typical of counterpoint.
It is richly contrapuntal music filled with cohering and conflicting information that in both cases was worth our close attention.
It's like listening all the time to strenuously contrapuntal music - you keep trying to fuse the themes.
This way of writing with a particular number of parts (in this case: two) is called "contrapuntal music".
Several hundred years ago composers found how to write contrapuntal music.
Because a fugue is a piece which puts several lines of melody together it is a form of contrapuntal music.
Such tones are most obvious in homophonic music but also often occur in contrapuntal music.